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IndicatorLBNLebanonMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.69rank #79
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile21.5rank #183
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.35rank #78
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.25rank #92
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.74rank #66
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile29.4rank #184
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.69rank #79
Military spending% GDP2.6%rank #33
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.22rank #98
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile42.2rank #180
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile39.7rank #173
Rule of Law0-100 percentile38.3rank #170
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.29rank #114
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.42rank #85
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.27rank #96
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile43.3rank #140
Women in parliament% seats6.3%rank #158
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.61rank #109
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment3.5%rank #142
Agriculture value added% GDP1%rank #164
Annual working hours per workerhours2,412rank #8
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker285,918.8rank #49
Current account balance% GDP-28.1%rank #175
Employment-to-population ratio%38.7%rank #169
External debt stocks% GNI331.6%rank #115
FDI net inflows% GDP7.1%rank #32
GDPcurrent US$25.97Brank #114
GDP growth%-7.1%rank #196
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$4,473.3rank #133
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $10,469.2rank #127
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $11,298.9rank #115
Government expenditure% GDP6.3%rank #124
Gross capital formation% GDP1.4%rank #168
Gross savings% GDP-12.5%rank #155
High-technology exports% manuf. exports2.9%rank #97
Industry value added% GDP2.6%rank #188
Inflation%14.6%rank #157
Labour force participation rate%43.4%rank #169
Personal remittances received% GDP33.3%rank #3
Tax revenue% GDP11.1%rank #74
Trade openness% GDP82.2%rank #85
Unemployment% labor force11%rank #151
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%11%rank #151
Vulnerable employment% employment19.4%rank #67
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2422.7%rank #146
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2422.7%rank #146
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop92.6%rank #106
Basic sanitation access% pop99.2%rank #32
Child mortalityper 1001.8rank #79
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,827.7rank #112
DTP3 immunization coverage%49%rank #42
Health spending% GDP5.6%rank #114
Infant mortalityper 1k births15.3rank #77
Life expectancyyears77.9rank #72
Maternal mortalityper 100k15rank #15
Measles immunization% children67%rank #32
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%67%rank #32
Physiciansper 1k2.7rank #55
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m326.7rank #144
Road traffic deathsper 100k16.4rank #71
Smoking prevalence% adults46.9%rank #137
Suicide mortality rateper 100k0.7rank #6
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k13rank #48
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births17.6rank #114
Undernourishment% pop8.7%rank #31
Education
Adult literacy%92%rank #31
Education spending% GDP1.2%rank #40
Expected years of schoolingyears11.7rank #142
Mean years of schoolingyears10.4rank #83
Primary completion rate% relevant age67.3%rank #126
Primary enrollment% gross81.8%rank #127
Secondary enrollment% gross63.8%rank #96
Tertiary enrollment% gross54.4%rank #63
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00016rank #95
Fertility ratebirths/woman2.2rank #90
Median age of populationyears28.3rank #126
Net migration rateper 1,000-5.9rank #187
Populationpeople5.85Mrank #115
Population growth%0.75%rank #117
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years81.6rank #80
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands6,999.3rank #115
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age57.6rank #87
Urban population%91%rank #20
Climate
CO₂ emissionst15.65Mrank #96
CO₂ per capitat2.7rank #110
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation13.1%rank #91
Electricity from solar% generation30%rank #3
Electricity from wind% generation0.19%rank #96
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita975.3rank #108
Forest area% land14.2%rank #145
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita3.2rank #64
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh389.5rank #82
Renewable electricity%43.8%rank #67
Renewable energy share%6.8%rank #140
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e18.3rank #65
Society
Asylum seekerspeople8,798rank #119
Extreme poverty% pop5.8%rank #30
Female labor participation%22.2%rank #172
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1007.3rank #126
Gender Development Indexratio0.99rank #32
Gender Inequality Index0-10.36rank #81
Gini indexindex35.5rank #30
Homicide rateper 100k2.2rank #60
Human Development Index0-10.75rank #80
Internally displaced personspeople64,417rank #7
Internet users% pop80.6%rank #96
Life satisfaction0-103.7rank #138
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.69rank #54
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #86
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #78
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.12rank #123
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.42rank #141
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people535,168rank #16
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people9,568rank #114
Youth NEET rate%23.8%rank #127
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year347rank #23
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths349rank #25
Hazard & exposure0-106.2rank #54
Human hazard & exposure0-107.7rank #56
INFORM risk score0-106.3rank #50
Lack of coping capacity0-105.7rank #48
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-102.5rank #22
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-107.7rank #55
Natural hazard & exposure0-103.9rank #26
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year347rank #27
Socio-economic vulnerability0-104.6rank #45
Vulnerability0-107.1rank #58
Vulnerable groups0-108.6rank #71
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