Pricele #48: Coca-Cola (330ml can) in Lebanon 🇱🇧
The puzzle for 17 August 2026 asked what a 330ml can of Coca-Cola costs in Lebanon. Here is the answer and the context behind it.
The answer
Coca-Cola (330ml can) · Lebanon
$0.50
45,000 LBP
About 9 minutes of the average local wage buys a 330ml can of Coca-Cola.
Cheaper than 91% of the 33 countries in the game.
Source: Seed estimate.
About coca-cola
Coca-Cola is sold in more countries than almost any other branded product, which makes it a useful yardstick, though a noisy one. The same can costs very different amounts in a supermarket, a corner shop and a hotel minibar, and Coca-Cola deliberately prices to the local market rather than converting a single global price.
Where Lebanon sits
Of the 33 countries priced for coca-cola, Lebanon ranks #30 from the top at $0.50, 64% below the median of $1.37.
Lebanon's currency collapsed after 2019, and for several years official and market exchange rates diverged so far that dollar conversions were close to meaningless. Prices have since re-anchored around the US dollar in practice. Several items are missing here, because the crowd-sourced surveys that cover them do not have reliable Lebanese samples. VAT is 11% on paper, but in an economy that dollarised informally after a banking collapse, the published rate tells you much less about a real transaction than it would anywhere else in this table. Lebanon is included for completeness and should be read as the least reliable column here.
What else costs what in Lebanon
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $5.36 | 480,000 LBP | 1.7 h |
| Diesel (1 litre) | $1.21 | 118,750 LBP | 23 min |
| Cigarettes (20-pack) | $0.76 | 68,250 LBP | 14 min |
| Beer (330ml) | $1.09 | 98,000 LBP | 20 min |
| Spirits (750ml bottle) | $16.91 | 1,513,000 LBP | 5.3 h |
| Vape e-liquid (1 ml) | $1.21 | 108,280.8 LBP | 23 min |
| Mobile data (1 GB) | $1.91 | — | 36 min |
| A day's healthy diet | $4.55 | 407,250.16 LBP | 85 min |
Go deeper
See the full table for coca-cola in every country or everything priced in Lebanon.