🇱🇧 Prices in Lebanon
The average person in Lebanon earns about $3,560 a year (World Bank GNI per capita, 2024). Here is what everyday products cost locally, in LBP and US dollars, weighed against that income.
Big Mac
$5.36
3.1 hrs of work
Gasoline
$1.14/L
$4.30 per US gallon
Average income
$3,560
per year · World Bank GNI, 2024
The cost of living in Lebanon
A Big Mac here is $5.36, cheaper than 38% of the countries we track (34th lowest overall). Priced against local wages that is roughly 3.1 hrs of work for a single burger, a cleaner read on everyday affordability than the exchange rate alone.
A litre of gasoline costs about $1.14 in Lebanon($4.30 per US gallon), the 41st cheapest of 170countries. Fuel prices are driven as much by tax and subsidy policy as by the oil market, which is why they vary far more between countries than crude prices ever do.
Taken together, Lebanon sits in the 48th income position of the 53countries we cover, and its prices largely track that. The headline takeaway is the one that runs through this whole site: a dollar figure only becomes meaningful once you set it against what people here actually earn. That is what the affordability numbers above are for.
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Prices in Lebanon: common questions
How much is a Big Mac in Lebanon?
A Big Mac costs about $5.36 in Lebanon, which is roughly 3.1 hrs of work at the local average wage. Prices come from The Economist's Big Mac Index.
How much is petrol in Lebanon?
A litre of gasoline costs around $1.14 in Lebanon (about $4.30 per US gallon), per GlobalPetrolPrices.
Where does this data come from?
Every price is scraped from a first-party source — Apple, Netflix, Spotify, The Economist and GlobalPetrolPrices — and income is World Bank GNI per capita. See our methodology page for the full detail.