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 (%) : 42.40

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	:	112,760
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 GDP Per Capita (USD) of the countries in the world is 18,253. Benin is the 41^st worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that this country is a developing country.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Benin is the 51^st worst ranked in Potatoes prod. . This is indicative of less focus on the production of potatoes, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.

Benin Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	9	1	1129
2	Tree density .	Density	8	1	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	145	1235
2	Number of Trees	Count	9,751,992,148	89	1234
3	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	89	1234
4	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	84	1231
5	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	79	1233
6	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Tons	0	68	1230
7	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	68	1233
8	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	53	1233
9	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Tons	0	52	1231
10	Rice prod.	Tons	5,090,580	47	1232
11	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Tons	0	47	1233
12	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Tons	1	18	1232
13	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	18	1231

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	1126
2	Fula	# People	188,175	8	1128
3	Fula as a % of total Fula speakers	% People	0	8	1126
Below than World Average-
1	French	# People	596,219	24	1231
2	French as a % of total French speakers	% People	0	21	1231

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	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	186	1235
2	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	31	1	1233
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	124	1235
4	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	124	1231
5	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	5,059,423	120	1234
6	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	110	1234
7	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,125,548	109	1233
8	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	104	1232
9	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	32	1	1235
10	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	101	1232
11	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	98	1234
12	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,858,694	86	1234
13	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	84	1233
14	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	66	1234
15	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	16	1230
16	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	5	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	1	12	1129
2	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	49	127	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	77	1230
2	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	76	1232
3	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	76	1232
4	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	66	1233
5	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	56	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	1128
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	64	1125
3	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	71	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	183	1235
2	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	156	1233
3	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	140	1235
4	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	24	126	1231
5	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	120	1235
6	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	55	120	1230
7	Formal Jobs	# People	10,227,722	118	1234
8	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	75	115	1232
9	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	90	1234
10	Employment in Services	# People	9,747,273	86	1234
11	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	14,402,736	83	1234
12	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,233,463	66	1233
13	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	88,812	51	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	67	1130
2	Pop. without Electricity Access / Total Pop.%	% People	15	18	1127
3	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,489,572	28	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	178	1230
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1235
3	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1232
4	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	130	1230
5	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	116	1233
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	108	1233
7	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	82	1235
8	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	63	1230
9	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	73	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
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	1230
3	Total No. of Doctors	# People	73,975	138	1235
4	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	14,339	133	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	26	164	1230
2	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	66	162	1230
3	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	155	1230
4	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	35	158	1230
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	14	150	1231
6	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	30	150	1234
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	16	149	1231
8	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	35	138	1234
9	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	113	1234
10	Twitter users	# People	3,179,254	123	1231
11	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	118	1234
12	Facebook users	# People	7,174,483	120	1231
13	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	105	1230
14	LinkedIn users	# People	6,064,509	108	1232
15	Internet Users	# People	25,030,008	101	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	18,253	155	1233
2	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	122	1232
3	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	109	1233
4	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	117	1231
5	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	182,282	126	1230
6	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	117	1230
7	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		45	123	1232
8	GDP (Billions USD) 2022	$ Billions	531	123	1233
9	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	184,833	122	1232
10	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	7,895	121	1233
11	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	113	1233
12	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		52	119	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	154	1234
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	88	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	0	150	1231
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	135	1234
3	Total Military Force	# People	122,909	135	1232
4	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	133	1235
5	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	129	39	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	91	1233
2	Christian Population	# People	11,763,461	66	1235
3	Islamic Population	# People	9,744,062	57	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	100	1234
2	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	65	1231
3	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	57	1234
4	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	55	1234

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