Prices in Lebanon 🇱🇧
What 7 everyday items cost in Lebanon, shown in US dollars, in LBP, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Lebanon's currency collapsed after 2019, and for several years official and market exchange rates diverged so far that dollar conversions were close to meaningless. Prices have since re-anchored around the US dollar in practice. Only two items are listed here, because the crowd-sourced surveys that cover the rest do not have reliable Lebanese samples.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $5.36 | 480,000 LBP | 1.7 h |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $0.50 | 45,000 LBP | 9 min |
| Cappuccino | no data | ||
| Milk (1 litre) | no data | ||
| Eggs (dozen) | no data | ||
| Apples (1 kg) | no data | ||
| Gasoline (1 litre) | no data | ||
Local-currency figures are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates, except the Big Mac, which is published in local currency by The Economist and converted the other way. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage — the roughest number on this page. See methodology.
How Lebanon compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Lebanon is most expensive for big mac, where it ranks 20th out of 33 countries at $5.36 — against a global median of $5.69.
It is relatively cheapest for coca-cola at $0.50, which is 30th of 33 — only 3 countries in the game are cheaper.
Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is big mac, at roughly 1.7 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently — that gap is usually the more interesting number.
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