Lebanon's piracy rate at 69% in 2017, 37th highest globally and sixth highest among Arab countries

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Lebanon's piracy rate at 69% in 2017, 37th highest globally and sixth highest among Arab countries

The U.S.-based Business Software Alliance, an industry group representing the world's leading computer software developers, estimated the software piracy rate in Lebanon at 69% in 2017 compared to 70% in 2015, 71% in each of 2011 and 2013, and 72% in 2009. As such, Lebanon had the 37th highest piracy level among 111 countries worldwide and the sixth highest among 15 Arab countries included in the survey. Also, Lebanon had the 14th highest piracy rate among 34 upper middle-income countries (UMICs) included in the survey. The survey covers operating systems, business applications, systems software such as databases and security packages, and consumer applications such as games, personal finance and reference software.   

Globally, Lebanon's software piracy rate was higher than rates in Ecuador (68%) and in Argentina and Uruguay (67% each), and lower than rates in Vietnam (74%), Tunisia (73%) and Panama (71%). Lebanon's software piracy rate was significantly higher than the global rate of 37% and the Middle East & Africa rate of 56%. Libya had the highest piracy rate in the world at 90%, while the United States had the lowest rate globally at 15% in 2017. Piracy rates among Arab countries increased in Yemen between 2015 and 2017, while they regressed in 11 economies and were unchanged in Iraq, Libya and Oman.

In parallel, software piracy-related losses in Lebanon totaled $61m in 2017, down from $65m in each of 2013 and 2015, and compared to losses of $52m in 2011 and $46m in 2009. As such, Lebanon posted the 71st highest piracy-related dollar losses worldwide, the 24th highest losses among UMICs and the ninth highest losses among Arab countries. Globally, Lebanon's piracy-related dollar losses were similar to those in El Salvador, and came higher than those in Belarus ($59m), Oman ($56m) and Morocco ($52m), and lower than losses in Egypt ($64m), and in Kazakhstan and New Zealand ($62m each). Lebanon's piracy-related dollar losses accounted for 0.1% of global losses, for 0.4% of UMICs' losses, for 2% of losses in the Middle East & Africa region and for 4.7% of total piracy-related losses in Arab countries. Also, Lebanon's piracy-related dollar losses stood at 0.12% of GDP in 2017, relative to 0.13% of GDP in each of 2009, 2011 and 2015, and to 0.14% of GDP in 2013.
 
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