Lebanon - Social contributions

Social contributions (current LCU)

The value for Social contributions (current LCU) in Lebanon was 219,560,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 22 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 221,768,000,000 in 2018 and a minimum value of 4,342,000,000 in 1997.

Definition: Social contributions include social security contributions by employees, employers, and self-employed individuals, and other contributions whose source cannot be determined. They also include actual or imputed contributions to social insurance schemes operated by governments.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1997 4,342,000,000
1998 4,830,000,000
1999 9,630,000,000
2000 77,200,000,000
2001 74,300,000,000
2002 74,600,000,000
2003 72,700,000,000
2004 85,600,000,000
2005 83,878,000,000
2006 85,332,000,000
2007 77,136,000,000
2008 85,224,000,000
2009 95,223,000,000
2010 107,280,000,000
2011 206,403,000,000
2012 156,048,000,000
2013 128,242,000,000
2014 136,223,000,000
2015 138,505,000,000
2016 148,800,000,000
2017 221,370,000,000
2018 221,768,000,000
2019 219,560,000,000

Social contributions (% of revenue)

Social contributions (% of revenue) in Lebanon was 1.38 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 22 years was 1.85 in 2000, while its lowest value was 0.11 in 1998.

Definition: Social contributions include social security contributions by employees, employers, and self-employed individuals, and other contributions whose source cannot be determined. They also include actual or imputed contributions to social insurance schemes operated by governments.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1997 0.11
1998 0.11
1999 0.20
2000 1.85
2001 1.74
2002 1.39
2003 1.18
2004 1.22
2005 1.22
2006 1.10
2007 0.92
2008 0.86
2009 0.80
2010 0.92
2011 1.57
2012 1.18
2013 0.98
2014 0.94
2015 1.04
2016 1.05
2017 1.34
2018 1.36
2019 1.38

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance