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Lebanon

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A consolidated migration profile for Lebanon: who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers. Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.

CapitalBeirut
RegionMiddle East
SubregionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income)
Population5,849,421
Refugees hosted 535,168 People protected here
Refugees from here — Fled abroad
Migrants living here 1,422,583 Foreign-born stock
Net migration -10,230 Net outflow
Asylum-seekers 7,617 Awaiting a decision
Reporting year 2025 Most recent data
Latest figures · 2025

Key migration numbers

The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.

2025Reporting year
535,168Refugees hosted
7,617Asylum-seekers
1,883Applications (year)
Migration balance

Incoming vs outgoing

Annual estimates

Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.

Net migration (year)-10,230Net outflow
Migrants living here1,422,583Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Historical series

Statistics

Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).

Population profile

Sex, age, religion & more

How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.

Religion

Religious make-up over time

National shares

Share of the population by faith across the recorded years. Each line is a stored national value; nothing is estimated.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2020
Christian Muslim Jewish Unaffiliated Other

See the full religion timeline for this country →

Places of worship

Places of worship over time

Recorded counts

No places-of-worship counts are recorded for this country yet. See the Places of worship page for the full picture.

See the full places-of-worship timeline for this country → · browse individual places →

Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.

Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.

Sex

Female 40.6%
Male 36.9%
Unknown 22.5%

Age

0-4 8.0%
12-17 14.6%
18-59 34.5%
5-11 18.6%
60+ 1.9%
Country context

National indicators

Economy

GDP (current US$)25,971,643,441.34 USD2024
GDP per capita (current US$)4,473.27 USD2024
Unemployment (% of labour force)10.99 %2023
Personal remittances received (US$)6,696,174,319.76 USD2023
Personal remittances received (% of GDP)33.35 %2023

Population

Population, total5,849,421.00 people2025
Population density564.37 people/km22023

Migration

Net migration-10,230.00 people2025
International migrant stock, total1,422,583.00 people2024
International migrant stock (% of population)24.50 %2024

Asylum decisions

Asylum decisions - recognised457.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - rejected80.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - otherwise closed105.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - total642.00 people2025

Durable solutions

Returned refugees465,578.00 people2025
Naturalisations20.00 people1997
Returned IDPs60,365.00 people2025

Other

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)77.95 years2024
Current health expenditure (% of GDP)5.57 %2023
Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)67.27 %2023
Gini index35.50 2022
Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (% of population)5.80 %2022
Context

Migration & quality of life

These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.

Economy

Gross domestic product

World Bank

GDP (current US$)

$25.97B

Reported 2024

GDP per capita (current US$)

$4,473

Reported 2024

Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.

Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).

Public safety

Recorded crime

Not migrant offending

National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.

Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available
CrimeRate / 100k
4,335.00
Public expenditure

Expenses

Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.

YearAmount (USD)Category
2023$1,747,103,271ODA received
2022$1,427,493,896ODA received
2021$1,405,172,974ODA received
2020$1,422,794,922ODA received
2019$1,237,653,442ODA received
2018$1,422,302,124ODA received
2017$1,303,035,645ODA received
2016$1,129,342,407ODA received
2015$965,611,328ODA received
2014$820,953,491ODA received
2013$621,604,187ODA received
2012$711,583,496ODA received
2011$475,490,265ODA received
2010$418,160,004ODA received
2009$580,081,848ODA received
2008$1,068,363,281ODA received
2007$978,969,971ODA received
2006$819,039,978ODA received
2005$230,723,495ODA received
2004$266,673,492ODA received
2003$534,635,193ODA received
2002$204,016,663ODA received
2001$198,966,660ODA received
2000$201,193,161ODA received
1999$194,511,505ODA received
1998$340,829,041ODA received
1997$261,235,870ODA received
1996$235,256,531ODA received
1995$191,289,993ODA received
1994$228,029,999ODA received
1993$140,369,995ODA received
1992$110,169,998ODA received
1991$125,239,998ODA received
1990$285,679,993ODA received
1989$117,809,998ODA received
1988$144,169,998ODA received
1987$101,150,002ODA received
1986$62,330,002ODA received
1985$82,410,004ODA received
1984$77,180,000ODA received
1983$125,900,002ODA received
1982$187,009,995ODA received
1981$454,980,011ODA received
1980$297,829,987ODA received
1979$123,480,003ODA received
1978$232,949,997ODA received
1977$135,839,996ODA received
1976$39,150,002ODA received
1975$14,300,000ODA received
1974$139,199,997ODA received
1973$11,630,000ODA received
1972$15,020,000ODA received
1971$6,070,000ODA received
1970$19,980,000ODA received
1969$9,230,000ODA received
1968$19,049,999ODA received
1967$8,680,000ODA received
1966$8,420,000ODA received
1965$7,940,000ODA received
1964$2,960,000ODA received
1963$8,180,000ODA received
1962$9,200,000ODA received
1961$12,810,000ODA received
1960$13,410,000ODA received
Sources & notes

Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.