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	:	4,047
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	153^rd/195
Life Expectancy	:	59
Unemployment Rate	:	1
Number of Internet Users	:	4,420,000
Internet Users Rank	:	101^st/195
Area	:	112,759
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 25,265. Benin is the 43^rd 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 52^nd 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	Songhay Languages as a % of total Songhay Languages speakers	% People	0	3	1125
2	Fula	# People	188,175	8	1128
3	Fula as a % of total Fula speakers	% People	0	8	1127
Below than World Average-
1	French	# People	596,219	24	1233
2	French as a % of total French speakers	% People	0	21	1235

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	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	186	1235
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	124	1230
3	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	124	1230
4	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	110	1234
5	Total Literate Pop.	# People	68,251,097	110	1235
6	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	104	1235
7	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	101	1234
8	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	98	1231
9	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	86	1231
10	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	84	1235
11	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	78	1234
12	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	74	1230
13	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	66	1235
14	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	64	1232
15	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	16	1234
16	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	5	1234
17	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	2	1233

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	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	77	1233
2	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	76	1233
3	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	76	1230
4	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	66	1231
5	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	56	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	24	64	1129
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	64	1127
3	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	72	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	183	1231
2	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	156	1234
3	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	140	1235
4	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	140	1234
5	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	127	1232
6	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	120	1233
7	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	121	1232
8	Formal Jobs	# People	20,455,444	119	1233
9	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	116	1231
10	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	90	1232
11	Employment in Services	# People	19,494,546	87	1230
12	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	28,805,473	84	1230
13	Employment in Agriculture	# People	10,466,926	67	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	67	1126
2	Pop. without Electricity Access / Total Pop.%	% People	15	18	1127
3	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	6,979,145	29	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	178	1234
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	14	87	1234
3	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1231
4	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	130	1232
5	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	116	1235
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	42	109	1235
7	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	82	1234
8	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	63	1234
9	Rural Pop.	# People	36,027,518	74	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	71	178	1230
2	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	35	167	1231
3	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	28,678	134	1230
4	Total No. of Doctors	# People	118,384	100	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	67	163	1232
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	54	151	1230
3	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	76	151	1235
4	Facebook users	# People	16,391,045	113	1235
5	Internet Users	# People	25,030,008	101	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	154	1231
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	88	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	149	1230
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	1	125	1232
3	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	133	1235
4	Total Military Force	# People	353,432	130	1235
5	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	129	39	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	25,265	153	1231
2	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	122	1230
3	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	1	110	1233
4	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	117	1233
5	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	182,282	126	1232
6	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	117	1230
7	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		45	123	1230
8	GDP (Billions USD) 2022	$ Billions	531	123	1232
9	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	184,833	122	1231
10	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	113	1235
11	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		52	119	1231
12	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	10,566	85	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Potatoes prod.	Weight	2,516,782	144	1235
2	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	1	110	1232
3	Onion prod.	Weight	759,968	112	1231
4	Tree density.	Density	22,685	106	1232
5	Tree density .	Density	828	92	1230
6	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	89	1231
7	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	89	1230
8	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	84	1235
9	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Weight	833,178	52	1230
10	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	1	48	1235
11	Rice prod.	Weight	6,871,329	47	1235
12	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	1	48	1232
13	Sugarcane prod.	Weight	2,422,324	34	1234
14	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	5	34	1231
15	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Weight	2	18	1234
16	Soyabean prod.	Weight	3,628,152	17	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	91	1230
2	Christian Population	# People	11,763,461	66	1232
3	Islamic Population	# People	9,744,062	57	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	100	1235
2	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	1	66	1233
3	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	1	58	1230
4	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	56	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