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Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2025
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	49 929	23 129	27 464^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	0.5	-24.6	-0.7^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	7 714.0	4 056.0	4 757.0^b
Economy: Agriculture^g,h (% of Gross Value Added)	3.5	7.4	4.7^b
Economy: Industry^h,i (% of Gross Value Added)	16.9	16.8	14.2^b
Economy: Services and other activity^h,j (% of GVA)	79.5	75.7	81.1^b
Employment in agriculture^k (% of employed)	3.8	3.6	3.4^b
Employment in industry^k (% of employed)	22.1	20.6	20.3^b
Employment in services^k (% employed)	74	75.8	76.2^b
Unemployment^k (% of labour force)	9.3	13.3	11.5^b
Labour force participation rate^k (female/male pop. %)	26.1 / 68.6	27.0 / 65.3	27.5 / 65.9^b
CPI: Consumer Price Index (2010=100)	115^k	240^k	7 751^l,f
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	98	100	100^b
International trade: exports (million current US$)	2 953	3 807^k	4 167^k,f
International trade: imports (million current US$)	18 600	11 355	17 307^k,f
International trade: balance (million current US$)	- 15 646	- 7 547^k	- 13 140^k,f
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	- 8 542	- 2 779	- 5 643^b

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Population growth rate (average annual %)	-2.2	0.2	0.8^a
Urban population (% of total population)	88.1	88.8^e	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	6.2^m	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	2.4	2.3	2.2^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	80.1 / 76.2	78.7 / 73.9	80.0 / 76.0^a
Population age distributionⁿ (0-14/60+ years old, %)	25.8 / 10.6	27.9 / 13.3	25.6 / 15.1^a
International migrant stock^o,p (000/% of total pop.)	1 763.7 / 27.2	1 586.3 / 27.8	1 422.6 / 24.5^f
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	1 189.1	908.8	817.9^q,f
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	13.1	20.3	17.6^a
Health: Current expenditure^c,r (% of GDP)	7.4^s	7.6^k	5.7^k,t
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	2.1	2.7	...
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	... / ...	... / ...	77.4 / 78.9^b
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	... / ...	... / ...	68.3 / 63.3^b
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	... / ...	... / ...	65.0 / 54.9^b
Intentional homicide rate (per 100 000 pop.)	3.6	2.2	...
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	3.1	4.7^u	6.2^u

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Individuals using the Internet^k (per 100 inhabitants)	74	82.1	83.5^b
Threatened species (number)	69	109	194^f
Forested area (% of land area)	13.7	14	14.1^t
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	23.9 / 3.7	23.4 / 4.1	14.7 / 2.6^t
Energy production, primary (Petajoules)	8	10	13^t
Energy supply per capita (Gigajoules)	52	58	38^t
Tourist/visitor arrivals at national borders^v (000)	1 518	414	1 466^t
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	4.4	4.7	4.7^f
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	1.95	4.64	7^t

Footnotes

a		Projected est. (medium fertility variant).
b		2023
c		Est. should be viewed with caution as these are derived from scarce data.
d		Excluding Syrian refugees.
e		2019
f		2024
g		Exc. irrigation canals and landscaping care.
h		Data classified according to ISIC Rev. 4.
i		Exc. publishing activities. Inc. irrigation canals.
j		Inc. publishing activities and landscape care. Exc. repair of personal and household goods.
k		Estimate.
l		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division from national indices.
m		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
n		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
o		Refers to foreign citizens.
p		Including refugees.
q		The Lebanese government estimates that 1.5 million Syrians are in Lebanon (some 774,700 registered by UNHCR as well as 11,400 asylum-seekers and refugees of other nationalities).
r		Based on calendar year (January 1 to December 31).
s		Data are based on SHA2011.
t		2022
u		Data at 1 January of the reporting year.
v		Excluding the Lebanon, Syria and Palestine nationalities.