The Ministry of Economy and Trade (MOET) and in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP) published April’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 800 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 140.8 in April 2025, posting a monthly decrease of 2.1% when compared to March’s figure of 143.8 and an annual increase of 9.8%. The Ministry commented that the drop in local food production resulting from the conflict and the mass displacement led to a sizeable annual increase in the prices of fruits (27.5% annual rise), vegetables (14.2% annual increase), and dairy products (13.7% annual rise), with the largest increases taking place in the Mount Lebanon (16% annual increase) and Baalbek-El Hermel (13% yearly rise) governorates. Furthermore, the Ministry stated that decrease in the consumption of fresh products after the month of Ramadan has resulted in a monthly drop in the prices of vegetables (9.2% monthly drop) and fresh poultry (6.0% monthly decrease), especially in the South (6% monthly drop) and Akkar (5% monthly decline) governorates. The following table captures the values, monthly change, and annual change in the index’s major constituents:

Barring the Mount Lebanon region (1% monthly increase in prices), all regions in the MFPI reported monthly decreases in the prices of essential foods, with the most noticeable drop taking place in the South (6%), followed by Akkar (5%), the Bekaa and the North (4% each), Beirut and Nabatieh (3% each), and Baalbek-El Hermel (2%) governorates.