Economic Indicators
ALL INDICATORS	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Macroeconomic Indicators
GDP (Current prices) (USD billion)-World Bank	35.4	38.4	40	44	47	48.1	50	51.2	53.1	55	52.0	33.4
GDP (Current prices) (USD billion)-IMF	35.4	38.4	40	44	47	48.1	50	51.2	53.1	55	52.6	19.1
GDP growth-World Bank	10.2	8	0.9	2.5	3.8	2.5	0.2	1.5	0.9	-1.9	-6.7	-20.3
GDP growth-IMF	10.2	8	0.9	2.5	3.8	2.5	0.2	1.5	0.9	-1.9	-6.7	-25
GDP per capita (Current prices) (USD)-World Bank	7,355	7,762	7,675	7,952	7,933	7,688	7,645	7,626	7,793	8,013	7,584	4,891
GDP per capita (Current prices) (USD)-IMF	7,355	7,762	7,675	7,952	7,933	7,688	7,645	7,626	7,793	8,013	7,668	2,802
Consumer Price Index (CPI) at Year End*	83	87	90	99	100	99	96	99	104	108	116	284
Coincident Indicator (100 in 1993) (At Year End)	241	256	266	263	268	293	302	292	318	301	266	174
Exports (in USD million)	3,484	4,253	4,265	4,483	3,936	3,313	2,951	2,976	2,844	2,951	3,713	3,538
Imports (in USD million)	16,242	17,964	20,158	21,280	21,228	21,438	18,595	19,119	19,583	19,979	19,239	11,309
Trade Balance (in USD million)	-12,758	-13,711	-15,893	-16,797	-17,292	-18,125	-15,644	-16,143	-16,739	-17,028	-15,526	-7,771
Imports of Industrial Machinery (in USD million)	200	228	240	290	300	270	243	237	257	266	190	84
Foreign Direct Investments (in USD billion)	4.8	4.2	3.4	3.7	2.8	3.0	2.2	2.6	2.5	2.7	2.1	3.1
Remittances inflows (USD billion)-World Bank	7.6	6.9	6.9	6.7	7.6	7.2	7.5	7.6	7.1	7.0	7.4	6.3
Business Indicators
Number of Real Estate transactions	94,046	94,202	82,984	74,569	69,198	70,793	63,386	64,248	73,740	60,714	50,352	82,202
Real Estate Sales (in USD million)	6,956	9,479	8,841	9,175	8,263	9,200	8,010	8,482	9,953	8,100	6,800	14,386
Building Permits (in million square meters)	14.1	17.6	16.3	14.5	12.9	13.0	12.3	12.2	11.7	9.0	6.1	4.4
Cement Deliveries  (in million tons)	4.9	5.2	5.5	5.3	5.8	5.5	5.0	5.26	5.15	4.7	3.2	2.0
Airport Passenger Numbers (in million)	5.0	5.6	5.7	6.0	6.3	6.6	7.2	7.6	8.2	8.8	8.7	2.5
Number of Tourists (in million)	1.9	2.2	1.6	1.4	1.2	1.3	1.5	1.7	1.9	2.0	1.9	0.4
Beirut Port Activity (out/in in thousand tons)	6,322	6,469	6,677	7,225	8,268	8,280	8,216	8,737	8,629	7,984	6,524	4,561
Number of Vessels	2,395	2,285	2,167	2,125	2,114	1,962	1,807	1,580	1,909	1,872	1,746	1,377
Number of Containers	994,601	949,155	1,034,249	1,041,756	1,117,334	1,210,413	1,130,296	1,147,219	1,305,032	1,305,754	1,229,081	772,873
of which containers in transshipment	403,411	349,668	449,029	406,787	359,276	428,984	331,686	291,588	407,255	431,508	495,000	306,346
Sale of new vehicles	32,177	33,412	32,455	35,477	36,109	37,816	39,361	36,326	37,222	33,012	21,991	6,152
Number of new firms registered (Beirut & Mount-Lebanon)	7,093	7,667	7,554	6,157	6,299	6,071	6,303	5,787	6,251	5,495	4,720	2,295
Electricity Production (in million kWh)	11,920	12,458	12,397	10,966	12,096	12,522	12,520	13,130	15,030	15,245	14,791	12,324
Financial Indicators
BDL's Gold Reserves (in USD million)	10,000	13,014	14,401	15,312	11,104	11,000	9,848	10,705	11,962	11,770	13,939	17,324
BDL's Foreign Currency Reserves (in USD million)	29,200	30,614	30,815	29,972	31,713	32,403	30,638	34,029	35,806	32,514	29,553	18,604
BSE Market Capitalization (USD billion)	12.8	12.7	10.3	10.421	10.5	11.2	11.2	11.9	11.5	9.7	7.8	6.7
Total Volume of Traded Shares (in million)	103	271	78	55	51	96	75	120	87	90	200	50
Total Value of Traded Shares (in USD million)	1,038	1,871	515	408	375	661	629	972	762	634	902	243
Total Checks cleared (value in USD million)	56,000	67,418	72,103	71,037	72,300	74,200	69,627	68,136	68,375	66,687	57,753	54,197
Returned checks (value in USD million)	1,101	1,420	1,438	1,140	1,548	1,607	1,530	1,461	1,429	1,622	1,639	957
Dollarization rate of Deposits (%)	64.5	63.2	65.9	64.8	66.1	65.7	64.9	65.8	68.0	69.8	74.5	78.0
3-month LIBOR Interest Rate*	0.25	0.30	0.56	0.31	0.24	0.26	0.54	0.98	1.60	2.79	1.91	0.23
Beirut Reference Rate on $	5.18	4.67	4.68	5.76	5.89	6.05	6.16	6.54	6.83	8.2	10.39	4.53
Average interest rates on Deposits (LL)*	6.75	5.68	5.63	5.41	5.44	5.56	5.56	5.56	6.41	8.3	7.36	2.64
Average interest rates on Deposits ($)*	3.05	2.8	2.83	2.86	2.95	3.07	3.17	3.52	3.89	5.15	4.62	0.94
Average interest rate on loans (LL)	9.04	7.91	7.38	7.07	7.29	7.49	7.45	8.23	8.09	9.97	9.09	7.77
Average interest rate on loans ($)	7.28	6.74	7.02	6.87	6.88	6.97	7.06	7.35	7.67	8.57	10.84	6.73
Balance of Payments (in USD million)	7,899	3,325	-1,996	-1,537	-1,128	-1,408	-3,354	1,238	-156	-4,823	-5,851	-10,551
Banking Indicators
Number of Commercial Banks	53	54	54	54	56	55	53	50	49	49	47	47
Number of Investment Banks	12	13	15	17	17	16	16	17	16	16	16	16
Total Number of Banks	65	67	69	71	73	71	69	67	65	65	63	63
Number of Financial Institutions	47	50	53	53	55	55	52	50	49	45	44	41
Number of Payment Cards (in million)	1.6	1.7	1.8	1.9	2.2	2.4	2.8	2.8	2.6	2.8	3.0	2.8
Number of ATM machines	1,207	1,285	1,326	1,433	1,516	1,603	1,707	1,793	1,902	1,998	2,003	1,874
Commercial Banks
Number of Commercial Bank-Branches††	885	912	948	962	985	1,020	1,039	1,056	1,065	1,080	1,058	992
Total Net Profit (in USD million) (local operations)	1,197	1,642	1,564	1,563	1,632	1,717	1,865	1,900	2,302	2,234	NA	NA
Deposits at the Central Bank (in USD million)	35,755	40,331	47,208	52,540	54,271	63,508	70,557	89,295	103,412	130,771	118,215	111,537
Total Assets (in USD million)	115,097	128,970	140,623	151,932	164,821	175,697	185,989	204,311	219,856	249,484	216,781	188,042
Total Deposits  (in USD million)	95,001	107,239	117,742	127,699	139,166	147,637	154,951	162,495	168,394	173,178	157,479	137,589
Loans to the Resident Private Sector (in USD million)	24,267	30,326	34,236	37,857	41,516	45,382	48,061	51,040	53,448	51,798	43,912	31,766
Loans to Non-Resident  Private Sector  (in USD million)	4,116	4,614	5,151	5,608	5,863	5,517	6,182	6,140	6,071	7,117	5,572	4,136
Loans to the Public Sector (in USD million)	29,072	29,325	29,234	31,141	37,668	37,364	37,813	34,723	31,949	33,599	28,683	21,058
Foreign Assets (in USD million)	23,680	25,727	25,497	26,167	26,625	24,192	23,794	23,100	23,601	25,201	17,601	14,023
Claims on Non-Resident Financial Sector (in USD million)	15,025	15,849	14,634	14,400	13,920	12,171	11,561	11,240	11,300	11,989	6,767	4,716
Money Supply
Currency in Circulation (in million USD)	1,584	1,800	1,918	2,132	2,137	2,425	2,663	3,046	3,241	3,322	6,513	19,398
M1 = Currency in Circulation+Demand Deposits in LL (in million USD)	3,219	3,801	4,073	4,714	5,068	5,521	6,000	6,739	7,047	7,736	11,025	26,638
M2 = M1 + Other Deposits in LL (in million USD)	34,246	39,417	38,914	43,183	45,726	48,819	52,170	54,679	52,515	50,964	42,112	44,783
M3 = M2 +Bonds+Deposits in Foreign Currency (in million USD)	82,295	92,176	97,263	104,045	111,455	117,990	123,663	132,797	138,617	141,289	134,548	132,704
M4 = M3 +Treasury Bills held by the public (in million USD)	87,186	97,426	102,432	109,276	117,598	124,927	130,968	139,960	145,742	148,880	142,008	140,350
Fiscal Indicators
Gross Public Debt (in USD million)	51,152	52,620	53,690	57,694	63,491	66,576	70,336	74,899	79,530	85,139	91,642	95,594
Debt in LL (in USD million)	29,833	32,010	32,730	33,299	37,355	40,963	43,247	46,785	49,139	51,643	57,897	59,544
Debt in Foreign Currency (in USD million)**	21,319	20,610	20,960	24,395	26,136	25,613	27,089	28,114	30,391	33,496	33,745	36,050
Net Public Debt (in USD million)	44,172	45,045	46,403	49,126	53,212	57,126	61,344	65,223	69,143	75,729	81,242	85,556
Gross Market Debt (in USD million)	33,995	34,031	33,556	39,147	43,641	44,958	45,904	46,635	47,724	50,550	49,380	50,118
Treasury Bills in LL (in USD million)	29,026	31,345	32,096	32,726	36,740	40,228	42,529	46,001	48,300	50,796	56,849	58,468
Eurobonds (in USD million)	18,010	17,737	18,235	21,751	23,571	23,118	24,916	26,030	28,086	31,327	31,314	31,314
Debt/GDP ratio***	144%	137%	134%	131%	135%	138%	141%	146%	150%	155%	176%	286%
Fiscal deficit or surplus (in USD million)	-2,960	-2,894	-2,341	-3,925	-4,220	-3,073	-3,952	-4,944	-3,756	-6,246	-5,837	-2,709
Fiscal deficit (surplus)/GDP ratio***	-8%	-8%	-6%	-9%	-9%	-6%	-8%	-10%	-7%	-11%	-11%	-8%
Primary fiscal deficit or surplus (in USD million)	1078	1231	1661	-110	-240	1307	724	21	1428	-636	-287	-648
Total Tax Revenues (in USD million)	5,962	6,620	6,557	6,758	6,711	6,891	6,853	7,030	8,213	8,468	8,315	6,948
VAT Revenues (in USD million)	1,920	2,119	2,189	2,173	2,187	2,190	2,095	2,145	2,306	2,548	2,161	1,237
Customs Revenues (in USD million)	1,764	1,859	1,445	1,493	1,431	1,355	1,369	1,404	1,435	1,343	1,194	856
Telecom Revenues transferred to the MoF (in USD million)	1,366	635	1,500	1,430	1,430	2,012	1,234	1,265	1,284	1,071	947	1,237
Total Non-tax Revenues transferred to MOF (in USD million)	2,040	1,355	2,301	2,180	2,168	2,888	2,192	2,250	2,565	2,271	2,226	2,130
Total Expenditures (in USD million)	11,372	10,078	10,628	10,153	10,652	12,265	12,012	12,947	14,078	16,361	15,657	11,394
Salaries, Wages, Retirement and End of Service Compensations (USD million)	3,274	3,354	3,670	4,460	4,294	4,462	4,697	4,866	5,451	6,447	6,730	6,557
Debt servicing (in USD million)	3,848	3,911	4,003	3,816	3,980	4,380	4,677	4,965	5,184	5,610	5,549	2,060
Transfers to EDL (in USD million)	1,496	1,193	1,742	2,261	2,027	2,094	1,135	927	1,328	1,756	1,505	924
*Average rate for December of each year
**The 2020 figures include unpaid Eurobond principals, coupons, and their accrued interests
***Based on World Bank's GDP estimates