According to the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS), the monthly change in Lebanon’s consumer price index stood at 0.60% in September 2025 compared to 0.56% in August. On an annual basis, Lebanon’s CPI rallied by 15.06% to 7,603.00 in September 2025, compared to 6,608.44 in September of the previous year, with the average annual inflation rate for the first nine months of the year attaining 14.64% 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 23.90% y-o-y increase in the prices of food & non-alcoholic beverages (20.0% weight in the index), a 27.63% hike in housing prices (owner occupied; 13.6% weight in the index), not to mention the 4.94% rise in healthcare prices (7.7% weight in the index), the 30.57% rally in education prices (6.6% weight in the index), and the 11.02% 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 10.69% y-o-y in September 2025 (2.8% weight in the index) and were accompanied by some 9.45% increase in the prices of recreation, amusement and culture (2.4% weight in the index) and some 7.68% 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 an annual drop (0.45%) in September. 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 September 2025, with the sharpest increase taking place in Mount Lebanon (0.90%), followed by the Bekaa (0.69%), Nabatieh (0.64%), Beirut (0.27%), South (0.22%), and North (0.16%) regions.