According to the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS), the monthly change in Lebanon’s consumer price index reached 1.32% in July 2025, compared to 0.76% in June. On an annual basis, Lebanon’s CPI rallied by 14.27% to 7,515.70 in July 2025, compared to 6,577.39 in July of the previous year, with the average annual inflation rate for the first seven months of the year attaining 14.65% compared to 45.24% in the full year 2024 and 221.34% in the year 2023. 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 21.88% y-o-y increase in the prices of food & non-alcoholic beverages (20.0% weight in the index), a 28.94% hike in housing prices (owner occupied; 13.6% weight in the index), not to mention the 4.57% rise in healthcare prices (7.7% weight in the index), the 30.60% rally in education prices (6.6% weight in the index), and the 10.52% spike in clothing & footwear prices (5.2% weight in the index) only to name a few. It is worth noting that restaurants & hotels prices soared by 11.56% y-o-y in July 2025 (2.8% weight in the index) and were accompanied by some 10.58% increase in the prices of recreation, amusement and culture (2.4% weight in the index) and some 6.89% surge in the price of housing – water, electricity, gas & other fuels (11.8% weight in the index). The cost of communication (4.5% weight in the index), on the other hand, was the only component of the CPI to witness a shy annual drop (0.39%) in July. The following section captures the fluctuation in the key constituents of Lebanon’s consumer basket:

On a geographical basis, all regions across Lebanon saw a monthly rise in their CPI values in July 2025, with the sharpest increase taking place in Beirut (1.87%), followed by Mount Lebanon (1.46%), the North (1.10%), Bekaa (1.09%), South (0.92%), and Nabatieh (0.82%) regions.