The Ministry of Economy and Trade (MOET) and in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP) published February’s statistics of the Market Food Price Index (MFPI) which is a gauge that tracks the changes in the prices of 75 sub-constituents of essential foods, clustered within twelve main constituents, across a sample of 1,000 stores in different regions of the country. In more details, the twelve main constituents are pulses, condiments, eggs, cereals, dairy products, vegetables, fresh poultry, oils, sugar, canned fish, fruits and beverages. The index, which uses January 2023 as a base month with an inception value of 100, attained 137.2 during the month of February 2025, posting a monthly increase of 2.4% when compared to January’s figure of 134.0 and an annual appreciation of 7.9%. The Ministry commented that the ongoing conflict-related challenges have negatively affected prices in the Nabatieh governorate following the end of the ceasefire agreement deadline. Furthermore, the Ministry stated that the combined effect of the conflict, mass displacement, and deterioration in the economic situation over the past year had a considerable impact on prices in Akkar, North, and Baalbek El Hermel governorates. On a monthly basis, the prices of fruits and dairy products saw the sharpest increase (10.6% and 5.3% respectively), while the prices of eggs and pulses witnessed the largest drops of 1.9% and 0.7% respectively. The following table captures the values, monthly change, and annual change in the index’s major constituents:

Barring the Baalbek El Hermel and South regions (1% monthly drop in prices each), all regions in the MFPI reported monthly increases in the prices of essential foods, with the most noticeable rise taking place in the Nabatieh (11%), followed by the North (5%), Akkar (3%), and each of the Beirut, Bekaa, and Mount Lebanon governorates (2% increase each).