Why this matters to you
Every year, the government decides how much it collects from you and where it spends it: schools, hospitals, roads, electricity, salaries, debt. These decisions shape the services you get and the taxes you pay.
This information is hard to find and harder to read. So we gathered the budget data since 2017 in one interactive dashboard, a plain-language version of each budget, and short videos that explain how it all works.
This page puts everything in one place so you can read the numbers, question them, and follow what Parliament decides.
Explore the numbers yourself
The Lebanon Citizen Budget Dashboard holds the State's revenues and expenditures from 2017 to 2026. Pick a year and compare. Example of questions you can answer in a few clicks:
- Has the government been spending more or less over the past years?
- Where is the money mostly spent?
- How has the wage bill evolved?
- What debt costs does the budget cover?
- What are the income sources and how have they evolved over the years?
Open Lebanon Citizen Budget Dashboard
You can also dive in social protection data
Open the Social Protection Tracker
Read the budget in plain language
Each year, the Institut des Finances and the Ministry of Finance publish the Citizen Budget: the budget law explained in a few pages, in Arabic and English. Where the money comes from, where it goes, and what changed from the year before. The 2026 edition covers the law in force. The 2027 edition covers the proposal now before Parliament, so you can follow the debate with the numbers in hand. All editions since 2018 are in the Documents tab below.
For young citizens, parents and teachers
- Why do we pay taxes? An illustrated guide for ages 9 to 99, in Arabic
- Five animated episodes based on the guide: public money, public debt, taxes, the budget, municipalities (Videos tab)
Game of Flous: a classroom game built on the same guide, for schools and youth clubs. You can request it by email: institute@iof.gov.lb.
Bring your question to the Budget Lab
On Wednesday 25 November 2026, the Institut answers your questions about the budget, live, with ten years of data. In the room at the Institut or online.
Register and send your question
Go deeper
- Enhancing Fiscal Transparency in Lebanon, 2025 briefing note (Documents tab)
- Lebanon's scores in the Open Budget Survey, by year
- Review of Government Spending on Social Protection, 2017 to 2024 (Documents tab) and the Social Protection Spending Tracker (Data tab)
- Ministry of Finance budget documents
- All of IOF's work on fiscal transparency: trainings, projects, publications, events
Missing something? Tell us.
