World population/Lebanon
Asia
Population of Lebanon
5,897,462
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#116
world rank
0.07%
of world population
+0.84%
yearly change
+49,608
people this year
92,671
births a year
36,460
deaths a year
How the figure for Lebanon is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Lebanon at 5,897,462 on 1 July 2026, and projects 5,947,070 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Lebanon at number 116 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.07 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 92,671 births and 36,460 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
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