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Lebanon: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1991–2019 · 29 observations · forecasts to 2023 · unemp

2019
11.3%percent
Change on 2018
+0.6 pointsfrom 10.7%
Average, 2010–2019
9.07%10 years
Record high and low
11.3% (2019)low 6.36% (2009)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
202311.5Forecast
202211.6Forecast
202112.7Forecast
202013.3Forecast
201911.3
201810.7
201710.3
20169.79
20159.31
20148.83
20138.46
20127.94
20117.35
20106.78

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1991–2019
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1997–2019
  • International Labour Organization2004–2019
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2019–2023

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Lebanon documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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