 In the 1882 PEF's "Survey of Western Palestine" (SWP), the village was described as being perched on a terrace on the hill, with ancient tombs close by.In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya (called Lubban Sharqi) had a population of 356, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 474 Muslims and one Christian, in a total of 116 houses.In the 1945 statistics Lubban Sharqiya had a population of 620, all Muslims, with 12,545 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.