External Debt / Lebanon
Lebanon External Debt
Lebanon external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 331.65%.
COUNTRY: Lebanon
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-23 09:45:20
GM ECONOMY RATING
Lebanon · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
37 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
6.5 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
5.1 / 20
External stability
2.3 / 15
Financial robustness
13.0 / 15
Structural stability
8.8 / 15
Future capacity
1.5 / 10
Demographic capacity
1.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Lebanon · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
331.65%
Previous
332.86%
Range avg.
205.13%
Rank
1
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CountryLebanon
IndicatorExternal Debt
331.65%2023 · Rank 1
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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 331.65% for External Debt in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator decreased by 1.21 percentage points, from 332.86% to 331.65%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (205.13%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 135.67% in 2014 and the high was 332.86% in 2022.
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