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Lebanon: Inflation, average consumer prices
Annual percentage change in the average level of the consumer price index over the year.
Data status: CurrentThe latest figures we have collected are for 2025. 2026 is not overdue until March 27, 2028, a generous allowance for a annual series until we have timed this source’s releases.
Official statisticSource figures as of October 8, 2026Sources & methods
- Sources
- International Monetary Fund
- Period covered
- 1980 – 2025
- Source figures as of
- October 8, 2026
- Geography
- Lebanon
- Sector
- Whole economy (not a single sector)
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable
- Transformations
- Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
- Revisions
- Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
- Data status
- Current
Key figures
CK estimateAnnual % change · calculated by CK Economics from International Monetary Fund data
- Latest · 2025
- 14.6
- −31 pp vs a year earlier1
- 5-year change
- −70 pp
- since 20202
- 10-year change
- +18 pp
- since 20152
- Record high
- 487.2
- 19873
- Record low
- −3.7
- 20153
- Where the latest ranks
- 60th pct.
- Higher than 60% of the other 45 observations since 19804
- 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
- 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier.
- 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
- 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.
Methodology
Annual percentage change in the average level of the consumer price index over the year. Figures for the years from the WEO's own year onward are IMF staff projections, labelled "IMF forecast". Earlier years are the IMF's series of reported data, which for some countries include IMF staff estimates for the latest years. Source series PCPIPCH. Licence: IMF terms of use (https://www.imf.org/en/About/copyright-and-terms).
Source
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (WEO October 2026). https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PCPIPCH@WEO/LBN
All data
| Period | Value | Change y/y |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.6 | −30.6 pp |
| 2024 | 45.2 | −176.1 pp |
| 2023 | 221.3 | +50.1 pp |
| 2022 | 171.2 | +16.4 pp |
| 2021 | 154.8 | +69.9 pp |
| 2020 | 84.9 | +82 pp |
| 2019 | 2.9 | −3.2 pp |
| 2018 | 6.1 | +1.7 pp |
| 2017 | 4.4 | +5.2 pp |
| 2016 | −0.8 | +2.9 pp |
| 2015 | −3.7 | −5.6 pp |
| 2014 | 1.9 | −2.9 pp |
| 2013 | 4.8 | −1.8 pp |
| 2012 | 6.6 | +1.6 pp |
| 2011 | 5 | +1 pp |
| 2010 | 4 | +2.8 pp |
| 2009 | 1.2 | −9.5 pp |
| 2008 | 10.7 | +6.6 pp |
| 2007 | 4.1 | 0 pp |
| 2006 | 4.1 | +5.5 pp |
| 2005 | −1.4 | −3.1 pp |
| 2004 | 1.7 | +0.4 pp |
| 2003 | 1.3 | −0.5 pp |
| 2002 | 1.8 | +2.2 pp |