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Society profile

Libya

Libya: 52 indicators from open sources, newest value for each.

Demography

Population, total 7.5 MWorld Bank2025 Population aged 0-14 26.8%World Bank2025 Population aged 15-64 68.0%World Bank2025 Population aged 65+ 5.2%World Bank2025 Female share of population 49.2%World Bank2025 Urban population 87.9%World Bank2025 Fertility rate 2.3World Bank2024 Adolescent fertility rate 5.8World Bank2024 Life expectancy at birth 71.1yearsWorld Bank2024 Infant mortality 7.9‰World Bank2024 Net migration -172World Bank2025

Education

Adult literacy rate 60.2%World Bank1984 Secondary school enrolment 97.6%World Bank2006 Tertiary enrolment 58.5%World Bank2003 Education spending 2.3%World Bank1999

Income

GDP per capita, PPP $16 521$World Bank2025 GNI per capita, PPP $17 150$World Bank2025

Health

Suicide rate 5.0per 100kWorld Bank2021 Health spending 7.8%World Bank2023

Connectivity

Individuals using the internet 82.0%World Bank2024 Mobile subscriptions 193.0per 100World Bank2022 Access to electricity 77.4%World Bank2024

Environment

CO2 emissions per capita 8.7tWorld Bank2024

Religiosity

Religion is very important in life survey98.0%World Values Survey2022

Religious Practice

Attends religious services monthly or more survey54.4%World Values Survey2022 Believes in God survey99.9%World Values Survey2022

Trust People

Most people can be trusted survey9.3%World Values Survey2022 Trusts people met for the first time survey25.0%World Values Survey2022

Trust Institutions

Confidence in the government survey29.7%World Values Survey2022 Confidence in parliament survey9.8%World Values Survey2022 Confidence in the police survey50.9%World Values Survey2022 Confidence in the courts survey53.0%World Values Survey2022 Confidence in the press survey11.5%World Values Survey2022

Family Structure

Family is very important in life survey98.2%World Values Survey2022

Gender Roles

Women in national parliament 16.5%World Bank2025 When jobs are scarce, men should have more right to a job survey74.1%World Values Survey2022 Men make better political leaders than women survey73.5%World Values Survey2022

Democracy

It is important to live in a democracy survey77.2%World Values Survey2022 Satisfied with how democracy works survey29.4%World Values Survey2022 A strong leader without elections is good survey53.5%World Values Survey2022

Participation

Has signed a petition or joined a demonstration survey8.7%World Values Survey2022

Immigration Attitudes

Would not want immigrants as neighbours survey23.2%World Values Survey2022

Employment

Unemployment rate 18.8%World Bank2025 Youth unemployment rate 50.1%World Bank2025 Female labour force participation 33.0%World Bank2025 Male labour force participation 62.5%World Bank2025 Self-employed share 25.9%World Bank2025

Redistribution

Incomes should be made more equal survey26.3%World Values Survey2022 Work is very important in life survey88.1%World Values Survey2022

Happiness

Very happy or rather happy survey92.0%World Values Survey2022

Tolerance

Homosexuality is justifiable survey0.8%World Values Survey2022 Would not want people of another race as neighbours survey8.4%World Values Survey2022

Socially closest countries

  1. Morocco81%
  2. Tunisia79%
  3. Armenia77%
  4. Jordan76%
  5. Maldives75%
  6. Lebanon74%

Distance is computed on 23 value questions the two societies were both asked, standardised within each survey so that a different questionnaire does not pass for a different society. Similarity is relative to the widest distance in the world.

Every number carries its source and year. Where a country is missing, it is missing — we do not interpolate.