Demographics of Lebanon
| Population | 7,750,000 ( January 2017 est.) – 2 million Syrian and 450,000 Palestinian refugees (110) |
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| Growth rate | 0.98% (2014 est.) (166) |
| Birth rate | 14.8 births/1,000 population (2014 est.) |
| Death rate | 4.95 deaths/1,000 population (2014 est.) |
| Life expectancy | 77.22 years (2014 est.) |
| • male | 76.03 years (2014 est.) |
| • female | 78.46 years (2014 est.) |
| Fertility rate | 1.74 children born/woman (SRS 2014) |
| Infant mortality rate | 7.98 deaths/1,000 live births (2014 est.) |
| 0–14 years | 25.2% (male 758,153/female 723,619) (2014 est.)Lebanese and non-Lebanese |
| 15–64 years | 61.3% (male 1,825,135/female 1,776,953) (2014 est.) |
| 65 and over | 9.4% (male 175,911/female 218,046) (2014 est.) |
| At birth | 1.06 male(s)/female (2014 est.) |
| Under 15 | 1.05 male(s)/female (2014 est.) |
| 15–64 years | 1.03 male(s)/female (2014 est.) |
| 65 and over | 0.86 male(s)/female (2014 est.) |
| Nationality | noun: Lebanese people adjective: Lebanese |
| Official | Arabic |
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Some of the figures are of Lebanese descent John Maron • Charbel Makhluf • Estephan El Douaihy • Elias Peter Hoayek • Youssef Bey Karam • Camille Chamoun • Fairuz • Khalil Gibran • Bachir Gemayel • Carlos Slim • Sabah • Carlos Ghosn • Elie Saab • Charles Elachi • John Abizaid • John Abizaid • Elissa • Etienne Saqr • Donna Shalala • Ray LaHood • Michel Temer • Ralph Nader • Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir • Bechara Boutros al-Rahi • Michel Suleiman |
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Lebanon, including population density, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
About 99% of the population of Lebanon includes numerous Muslim sects and Christian denominations. Because the matter of religious balance is a sensitive political issue, a national census has not been conducted since 1932, before the founding of the modern Lebanese state. Consequently, there is an absence of accurate data on the relative percentages of the population of the major religions and groups. The absence of data and comprehensive statistics concerns also concerns all other demographic studies unrelated to religious balance, due to the all but total inactivity of the concerned public agencies. The only recent (post-war) statistics available are estimates based on studies made by private organizations. There are from 8.6 to 14 million Lebanese and descendants of Lebanese worldwide.
The biggest study made after the independence on the Lebanese Population was made by the Central Administration of Statistics (in French: "Administration Centrale de la Statistique") under the direction of Robert Kasparian and Mgr. Grégoire Haddad's Social Movement: "L'enquête par sondage sur la population active au Liban en 1970"(in English: "The survey on the active population in Lebanon in 1970"). It was conducted on a sample of 130,000 individuals.
Ethnic background is an important factor in Lebanon. The country encompasses a great mix of cultural, religious, and ethnic groups which have been building up for more than 6,000 years. The Arabs invaded and occupied Phoenicia in the 7th century AD from Arabia. The predominant cultural backgrounds and ancestry of the Lebanese vary from Aramaean (Ancient Syria) to Canaanite (Phoenician), and Greek (Byzantine). Lebanese are overall genetically similar to the people of Cyprus and Malta and to the other modern Levantine populations, such as the Syrians, Israelis and Palestinians. The question of ethnic identity has come to revolve more around aspects of cultural self-identification more than descent. Religious affiliation has also become a substitute in some respects for ethnic affiliation.
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