- ISO 3166
LB- Main language + region
apc-LB- Currency
- LBP · Lebanese Pound
- Region
- EMEA · MENA · MENAP
Lebanon
Lebanon has 5.4M people, and 4.3M of them are online. Levantine Arabic is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 6 languages CLDR lists here. Arabic is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to apc-LB.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
4.3M
0%world median 81%100%
81% of 5.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$4,473
Higher than 32% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
23%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
6
Levantine Arabic 100% · Arabic 86% · English 40%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
477
Very lowVery high
Low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
90%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR records Levantine Arabic in 6 territories and 43.7M speakers in total; Lebanon holds 12% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Levantine Arabic profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (apc-LB).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
April 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Mon
Currency
LBP 1,235
1,234.56 in LBP · Lebanese Pound