Lebanon LB
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · Lower middle income · capital Beirut
- Population
- 5,849,421
- 2025
- GDP
- $26.0 billion
- 2024
- Life expectancy
- 77.9 y
- 2024
In the live services
| corpus | rows for this country |
|---|---|
| recipes | 4 |
Geospatial extent
Bounding box 35.10°–36.60° E, 33.06°–34.69° N · centroid 33.87, 35.85 · source natural-earth-1:110m
Map © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Extent only; no cadastre or address data.
Top research institutions
- American University of Beirut — 34,303 works · ROR · site
- Lebanese University — 18,206 works · ROR · site
- Lebanese American University — 15,121 works · ROR · site
- American University of Beirut Medical Center — 10,459 works · ROR · site
- Saint Joseph University — 9,836 works · ROR · site
OpenAlex works counts; not a quality ranking.
Legal system
mixed system of civil law based on the French civil code, Ottoman legal tradition, and religious laws covering personal status, marriage, divorce, and other family relations of the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json)
Measured indicators
| indicator | value | year | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account ownership (% age 15+) | 23.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Agricultural land (% of land) | 63.7 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Air passengers carried | 2,693,218.0 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Arms imports (SIPRI TIV) | 9,000,000.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| basic_water_pct | 92.6 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Battle-related deaths (UCDP) | 4,335.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Access to electricity (%) | 100.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Foreign direct investment (% of GDP) | 6.8 | 2024 | World Bank |
| fixed_broadband_per_100 | 7.3 | 2022 | World Bank |
| Forest area (% of land) | 13.8 | 2024 | World Bank |
| GDP per capita (current US$) | 4,473.3 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Current health expenditure (% of GDP) | 5.6 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Intentional homicides per 100,000 | 2.2 | 2020 | World Bank |
| Individuals using the internet (%) | 80.6 | 2024 | World Bank |
| military_expenditure_pct_gdp | 2.5 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Net migration | -10,230.0 | 2025 | World Bank |
| primary_enrollment_pct | 81.8 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Prison population rate per 100,000 | 141.0 | 2023 | World Prison Brief / OWID |
| Personal remittances received (% of GDP) | 33.3 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Research institutions indexed (OpenAlex) | 82.0 | 2026-10-14 | OpenAlex |
| Works in full OpenAlex snapshot (2026-10-14) | 107,679.0 | 2026-10-14 snapshot | OpenAlex full snapshot |
| research_works_exported | 45,800.0 | 2026-10-14 snapshot | OpenAlex snapshot |
| Scholarly works since 2021 (OpenAlex) | 45,109.0 | 2021– | OpenAlex |
| Safely managed drinking water (%) | 47.7 | 2024 | World Bank |
| secondary_enrollment_pct | 63.8 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Tertiary enrolment (% gross) | 54.4 | 2023 | World Bank |
| tourism_receipts_pct_exports | 27.0 | 2020 | World Bank |
| Trade (% of GDP) | 82.2 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Undernourishment (%) | 11.1 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Unemployment (% labour force) | 11.0 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Urban population (%) | 91.0 | 2025 | World Bank |
Lane coverage
| lane | status | what exists |
|---|---|---|
| patents | GREY · source has no observation | no patent counts or PATENTSCOPE office metadata are published for this country/economy; this is a source gap, not zero patents source |
| legal | YELLOW · partial | legal-system description (CIA World Factbook, public domain); no statutes, gazettes or case law ingested, and Factbook recency is not guaranteed source |
| alerts | YELLOW · partial | global GDACS/USGS feeds are live; no active event currently names this country (not an all-clear) source |
| defense | GREEN · ingested | military expenditure (% of GDP), SIPRI series via World Bank; not procurement, capabilities or intent source |
| space | YELLOW · partial | global launch feed is live; 0 launches from pads here in the current bounded window source |
| maps | YELLOW · partial | Natural Earth 1:10m public-domain boundary (extent + centroid); no cadastre, address data or navigation map source |
| passport | GLOBAL · service live | pass.go-v.org is live; per-country identity documents are NOT ingested source |
| research | GREEN · ingested | 45,800 OpenAlex works name an institution in this country (country-affiliation subset of the 464,765,485-work export). source |
| economy | GREEN · ingested | GDP per capita, current US$ (World Bank); not a cost-of-living or inequality measure source |
| health | GREEN · ingested | life expectancy at birth, World Bank; not a health system performance rating source |
| education | YELLOW · partial | primary school enrolment (% gross), World Bank; tertiary data is shown when available source |
| energy | GREEN · ingested | access to electricity (% of population), World Bank source |
| water | YELLOW · partial | at least basic drinking water (% of population), World Bank/WHO; safely managed data shown when available source |
| connectivity | YELLOW · partial | fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people, World Bank/ITU; internet-user share shown when available source |
| crime | GREEN · ingested | intentional homicides per 100,000 people (UNODC series via World Bank); recorded homicides only source |
| conflict | YELLOW · partial | battle-related deaths (UCDP series via World Bank); one definition of armed conflict, not all violence source |
| business | GREY · source has no observation | the World Bank new-business registrations series has no observation for this economy source |
| science | GREEN · ingested | 82 research institutions indexed by OpenAlex; an institutional index, not a lab-certification register source |
| prison | GREEN · ingested | prison population rate 141 per 100,000 (World Prison Brief via Our World in Data, 2023); not a prison conditions assessment source |
| interpol | GREY · source has no observation | Interpol public notices are not ingested: the public API returns 403 to this host and its terms do not grant bulk reuse source |
| arms | YELLOW · partial | SIPRI arms-transfer trend indicator values (imports and exports) via the World Bank; TIV is a trend measure, not currency source |
| sanctions | YELLOW · partial | UN Security Council consolidated list references this country 4 time(s) (nationality/address fields); not Interpol notices or convictions source |
| agriculture | GREEN · ingested | agricultural land (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| food | YELLOW · partial | prevalence of undernourishment (%), World Bank/FAO; a modelled estimate, not a survey of every household source |
| labor | YELLOW · partial | unemployment (% of labour force), ILO modelled estimate via World Bank source |
| finance | YELLOW · partial | account ownership (% age 15+), World Bank Findex source |
| environment | GREEN · ingested | forest area (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| trade | GREEN · ingested | trade (% of GDP), World Bank source |
| migration | YELLOW · partial | net migration (5-year estimate), World Bank/UN source |
| tourism | YELLOW · partial | international tourism receipts 27.0026% of exports (World Bank/UNWTO, 2020) source |
| housing | YELLOW · partial | urban population (% of total), World Bank; not a housing-cost or tenure measure source |
| transport | YELLOW · partial | air passengers carried, World Bank/ICAO; one mode only source |
| investment | GREEN · ingested | Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2024) source |
| remittances | GREEN · ingested | Personal remittances received (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2023) source |
| health_finance | YELLOW · partial | Current health expenditure (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2023) source |
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Cite this page
Lebanon (LB). go-v.org estate, https://estate.116.202.234.183.nip.io/lb. Data: World Bank Open Data, OpenAlex, WIPO, Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap. Accessed 2026-10-25.