According to the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS), the monthly change in Lebanon’s consumer price index reached 0.67% in April 2025, compared to 0.44% in March. On an annual basis, Lebanon’s CPI rallied by 12.99% to 7,266.36 in April 2025, compared to 6,431.05 in April of the previous year, with the average annual inflation rate for the first four months of the year 2025 attaining 14.71%. The decelerating inflation pace owes to the widespread dollarization of products & services coupled with the stability of the LBP/USD exchange rate since the month of July 2023. In details, the index portrays a 20.87% increase in the prices of food & non-alcoholic beverages (20.0% weight in the index), a 26.39% hike in housing prices (owner occupied; 13.6% weight in the index), not to mention the frantic 21.68% rise in healthcare prices (7.7% weight in the index) and 30.74% rally in education prices (6.6% weight in the index). It is worth noting that restaurants & hotels prices soared by 14.88% y-o-y in April 2025 (2.8% weight in the index) and were accompanied by some 4.76% increase in the prices of recreation, amusement and culture (2.4% weight in the index) and some 3.27% surge in the price of housing – water, electricity, gas & other fuels (11.8% weight in the index). Transportation prices (13.1% weight in the index), communication prices (4.5% weight in the index) and furnishings, household equipment & routine household maintenance (3.8% weight in the index) on the other hand were the only three components of the CPI to witness annual drops (1.39%, 2.70% and 8.35% respectively) in April. The following section captures the fluctuation in the key constituents of Lebanon’s consumer basket:

On a geographical basis, all regions across Lebanon (barring the Bekaa, which witnessed a 0.27% monthly drop in the CPI) saw a monthly rise in their CPI values in April 2025, with the sharpest increase taking place in the South (1.37%), followed by the North (1.10%), Beirut (0.97%), Nabatieh (0.75%), and Mount Lebanon (0.47%) regions.