The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats and beehives in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 6,954 akçe. In 1838, it was noted as a Muslim village, "Lubban Rentis", in "Jurat Merda", south of Nablus. French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1863, and noted that "The houses appear to be very ancient, and present the particularity that many of them form together a continued whole, as if they were all one house, now divided among separate families. A quantity of ancient materials may be observed in the walls." He further noted that the village had 300 inhabitants. In 1882 PEF's "Survey of Western Palestine" (SWP), the village, (called "Lubban Rentis"), was described a being small, and situated on a knoll beside a Roman road. In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, "Lubban" had a population 221 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census when the village, with the name "Al-Lubban" or "Lubban Rantis", had 60 occupied houses and a population of 298 Muslims. In the 1945 statistics the population of "El Lubban" was 340, all Muslims, who owned 9,854 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. 1,411 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,118 used for cereals, while 6 dunams were built-up (urban) land. In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Al-Lubban al-Gharbi came under Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 602 inhabitants in "Lubban". Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Al-Lubban al-Gharbi has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 2.9% of village land was classified as Area B, he remaining 97.1% as Area C. Israel has confiscated land from Al-Lubban al-Gharbi in order to construct the Israeli settlements of Beit Aryeh and Ofarim.