Unemployment / Lebanon
Lebanon Unemployment
Lebanon unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 10.99%.
COUNTRY: Lebanon
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Lebanon · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
26 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
6.5 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
5.1 / 20
External stability
1.2 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
8.8 / 15
Future capacity
1.5 / 10
Demographic capacity
0.4 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Lebanon · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
10.99%
Previous
11.11%
Range avg.
10.83%
Rank
12
Countries by unemployment
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CountryLebanon
IndicatorUnemployment
10.99%2023 · Rank 12
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Lebanon recorded 10.99% for Unemployment in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator decreased by 0.12 percentage points, from 11.11% to 10.99%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (10.83%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 8.84% in 2014 and the high was 13.25% in 2020.
Comparison
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