Poverty Headcount / Lebanon
Lebanon Poverty Headcount
Lebanon poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 27.40%.
COUNTRY: Lebanon
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-07-06 05:11:11
GM ECONOMY RATING
Lebanon · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
24 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
5.0 / 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 · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
27.40%
Previous
27.40%
Range avg.
27.80%
Rank
17
Countries by poverty headcount
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CountryLebanon
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
27.40%2012 · Rank 17
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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 27.40% for Poverty Headcount in 2012, the latest available observation in this dataset.
The value was unchanged from the previous available observation in 2011 (27.40%).
The latest observation is below the average of the last 3 available observations (27.80%).
Within the last 3 available observations, the low was 27.40% in 2011 and the high was 28.60% in 2004.
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