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Lebanon's official statistics are extremely scarce: the last, country-wide, population census was performed in 1932. [10] As a result, official figures on poverty are limited. The central administration of statistics (CAS), together with the World Bank, have nonetheless worked on measuring poverty using several proxies. In 2004 and again in ...
The data is from the most recent year available from the World Bank API. [1] [2] [3] As differences in price levels across the world evolve, the global poverty line has to be periodically updated to reflect these changes. The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022.
The percentage of people in Lebanon living below the poverty line rose from 12% in 2012 to 44% in 2022, the bank said in a report based on surveys conducted in five of the country's eight ...
Lebanon is one of the only seven countries in the world in which the value of the stock market increased in 2008. [48] The Lebanese economy experienced continued resilience, growing 8.5 percent in 2008, 7 percent in 2009 and 8.8% in 2010. However, Lebanon's debt to GDP ratio remained one of the highest in the world. [49]
Hundreds of protesters in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli clashed with troops until late Tuesday night leaving several injured on both sides in some of the most serious riots triggered by an ...
Around 175,555 Palestinian refugees were registered in Lebanon with the UNRWA in 2014, who are refugees or descendants of refugees from the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Some 53% live in 12 Palestine refugee camps, who "suffer from serious problems" such as poverty and overcrowding. [37]
With the growth of desertification in Lebanon comes the growth of poverty. Desertification is a large threat to economic activity in Lebanon, and about 35 percent of families in Lebanon live below the poverty line. Because of this, many families have moved from the country to the city. [11]
This is a list of regions of Lebanon by Human Development Index as of 2024 with data for the year 2022. [1] Rank ... Lebanon (average) 0.723: 3 Mount Lebanon: 0.722 4