Lebanon’s population hits 4.8m with 20% non-LebaneseBEIRUT: Lebanon’s first integrated labor force study and largest family living conditions survey in almost three decades has revealed an estimated population of 4.8 million, 20 percent of them foreigners. Data revealed that 44.4 percent of Lebanon’s residents did not have any health care cover, while 76.9 percent relied on water that was not directly delivered through household supply networks. Fifteen to 64-year-olds accounted for 65 percent of Lebanon’s residents. Among those in the labor force, 1,590,000 had jobs and 203,000 were unemployed, while for those outside the labor force 66,900 were considered as potential workers. If the unemployed category was combined with the underemployment in terms of time and potential labor force, labor underutilization scored 16.2 percent.

Source: Libya Today December 23, 2019 11:30 UTC