Benin Analytics

Benin is a mid-size country with 0.2% of the world's population. Benin is a republic country. It has 3 world heritage sites.

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. Fula : 713,000
2. French : 110,000

Mother Tongue : Fula

Literacy Rate (%) : 42.4

Details

Country Capital	:	Proto-Novo
GDP Per capita	:	1,304
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	155^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	59
Unemployment Rate	:	1
Number of Internet Users	:	4,420,000
Internet Users Rank	:	101^st/195
Area	:	99
Area Rank	:	99^th/195
Total Population	:	12,997
Total Population Rank	:	76^th/195

Continent: Africa

Cities with > 100K popln: 3

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Benin Highlights

Benin is the 76^th ranked country in population and 99^th ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Worse than World Average-

1. Benin is the 10^th worst ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of 195 countries in the world. This indicates that the educational infrastructure in this country is worse than it is in other countries.
2. The average #Dentists of the countries in the world is 13,328. Benin is the 23^rd worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Benin is the 38^th worst ranked in Pharmacists (Per 10,000) . This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population.

Benin Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Songhay Languages as a % of total Songhay Languages speakers	% People	0	3	1128
2	Fula	# People	188,175	8	1129
3	Fula as a % of total Fula speakers	% People	0	8	1127
Below than World Average-
1	French	# People	596,219	24	1235
2	French as a % of total French speakers	% People	0	21	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	7	1129
2	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	7	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	186	1232
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	124	1235
3	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	124	1231
4	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	110	1234
5	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,125,548	109	1234
6	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	104	1232
7	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	101	1231
8	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	98	1231
9	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	86	1233
10	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	84	1232
11	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	78	1234
12	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	74	1234
13	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	66	1233
14	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	64	1231
15	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	16	1235
16	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	5	1234
17	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	2	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	1	12	1126
2	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	49	127	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	0	128	1234
2	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	77	1230
3	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	342	77	1232
4	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	76	1233
5	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	76	1235
6	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	66	1232
7	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	56	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	2	33	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	71	178	1234
2	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	166	1233
3	#Dentists	# People	13,328	172	1232
4	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	44	162	1233
5	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	156	1235
6	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	154	1230
7	Total No. of Doctors	# People	73,975	138	1231
8	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	134	1234
9	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	14,339	133	1231
10	HIV Infections (Per 1000)	People Per 1,000	0	59	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	24	64	1125
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	64	1128
3	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	71	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	183	1234
2	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	156	1233
3	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	140	1231
4	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	140	1235
5	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	24	126	1235
6	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	120	1235
7	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	55	120	1230
8	Formal Jobs	# People	10,227,722	118	1235
9	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	75	115	1232
10	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	90	1231
11	Employment in Services	# People	9,747,273	86	1233
12	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	14,402,736	83	1230
13	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,233,463	66	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	67	1128
2	Pop. without Electricity Access / Total Pop.%	% People	15	18	1129
3	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,489,572	28	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	178	1235
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1232
3	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1233
4	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	130	1230
5	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	116	1232
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	108	1234
7	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	82	1233
8	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	63	1231
9	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	73	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	66	162	1234
2	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	# People	14	157	1231
3	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	60	154	1231
4	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	# People	16	154	1233
5	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	76	150	1234
6	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	# People	29	150	1231
7	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	# People	34	139	1233
8	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	# People	0	115	1232
9	Twitter users	# People	3,240,046	126	1233
10	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	# People	0	105	1234
11	LinkedIn users	# People	5,792,754	109	1231
12	Facebook users	# People	17,943,893	107	1232
13	Internet Users	# People	25,030,008	101	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	18,253	155	1235
2	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	122	1230
3	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	109	1233
4	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	117	1233
5	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	182,282	126	1234
6	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	117	1233
7	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		45	123	1233
8	GDP (Billions USD) 2022	$ Billions	531	123	1233
9	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	184,833	122	1233
10	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	7,895	121	1235
11	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	113	1232
12	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		52	119	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	154	1233
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	88	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	0	150	1234
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	135	1233
3	Total Military Force	# People	122,909	135	1231
4	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	133	1232
5	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	129	39	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Potatoes prod.	Weight	2,516,782	144	1232
2	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	109	1230
3	Onion prod.	Weight	759,968	112	1233
4	Tree density.	Density	22,685	106	1234
5	Tree density .	Density	828	92	1231
6	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	89	1235
7	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	89	1230
8	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	84	1233
9	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Weight	833,178	52	1234
10	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	47	1234
11	Rice prod.	Weight	6,871,329	47	1231
12	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	47	1232
13	Sugarcane prod.	Weight	2,422,324	34	1231
14	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	2	33	1234
15	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Weight	1	17	1231
16	Soyabean prod.	Weight	3,628,152	17	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	91	1234
2	Christian Population	# People	11,763,461	66	1235
3	Islamic Population	# People	9,744,062	57	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	100	1230
2	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	65	1231
3	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	57	1232
4	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	55	1233

Benin Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Fula	5.49 %
2	French	0.85 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Cotonou	894,792
2	Parakou	336,700
3	Porto-Novo	348,297