According to the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS), the monthly change in Lebanon’s consumer price index reached 0.76% in June 2025, compared to 1.31% in May. On an annual basis, Lebanon’s CPI rallied by 15.00% to 7,417.78 in June 2025, compared to 6,450.23 in June of the previous year, with the average annual inflation rate for the first half 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 20.79% y-o-y increase in the prices of food & non-alcoholic beverages (20.0% weight in the index), a 29.93% hike in housing prices (owner occupied; 13.6% weight in the index), not to mention the frantic 21.70% rise in healthcare prices (7.7% weight in the index) and the 30.60% rally in education prices (6.6% weight in the index). It is worth noting that restaurants & hotels prices soared by 12.29% y-o-y in June 2025 (2.8% weight in the index) and were accompanied by some 8.82% increase in the prices of recreation, amusement and culture (2.4% weight in the index) and some 4.98% surge in the price of housing – water, electricity, gas & other fuels (11.8% weight in the index). It is worth noting that transportation prices (13.1% weight in the index) rose by 4.78% on a monthly basis following the Government’s decision to increase the price of liquefied fuel. Communication (4.5% weight in the index) price on the other hand was the only component of the CPI to witness an annual drop (3.27%) in June. The following section captures the fluctuation in the key constituents of Lebanon’s consumer basket:

On a geographical basis, all regions across Lebanon (barring Mount Lebanon, which witnessed a 0.26% monthly drop in the CPI) saw a monthly rise in their CPI values in June 2025, with the sharpest increase taking place in Nabatieh (2.37%), followed by the Beirut (2.25%), Bekaa (2.11%), South (1.88%), and North (1.02%) regions.