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Benin AI Report

Date: June 6, 2025

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.

Benin is the 75^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.

Fula

The Average Fula of 195 countries in the world is 188,175. Benin is the 8^th highest ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that this country has significantly more people speaking Fula when compared to other countries.

Potatoes prod.

Benin is the 10^th worst ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of all the 195 countries.This indicates that the educational infrastructure in this country is worse than it is in other countries.

Out of 195 countries in the world, Benin is the 44^th worst ranked in GDP Per Capita (USD) . This implies that this country is a developing country.

Out of 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.

Out of 195 countries in the world, Benin is the 60^th worst ranked in Military Budget (in Billion $) . This may indicate lesser external security threats for the country.

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Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	9	1	1128
2	Tree density .	Density	8	1	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Chicken Meat Production (% of Total Chicken Meat Production)	Percent	0	129	1233
2	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	145	1231
3	Chicken Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	588,164	137	1231
4	Cow Milk Production (% of Total Cow Milk Production)	Percent	0	116	1231
5	Cow Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	3,855,383	124	1231
6	Cow Beef Production (in tonnes)	Weight	320,761	98	1235
7	Cow Beef Production (% of Total Cow Beef Production)	Percent	0	95	1230
8	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	89	1234
9	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	89	1230
10	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	84	1231
11	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	79	1232
12	Number of Cows	Count	8,697,624	77	1230
13	Cows (% of Total Cows)	Percent	0	77	1232
14	Orange Production (% of Total Orange Production)	Percent	0	69	1231
15	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	68	1232
16	Orange Production (in tonnes)	Weight	618,959	70	1232
17	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	68	1231
18	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	53	1233
19	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	52	1233
20	Goat Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	196,989	49	1230
21	Goat Milk Production (% of Total Goat Milk Production)	Percent	0	48	1234
22	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	47	1235
23	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	47	1234
24	Goat Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	46,111	47	1232
25	Goat Meat Production (% of Total Goat Meat Production)	Percent	0	47	1234
26	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Weight	1	18	1232
27	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	18	1233
28	Cotton Production (in 1000 480 lb. Bales)	Weight	1,707	11	1231
29	Cotton Production (% of Total Cotton Production)	Percent	1	11	1232

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	1130
Below than World Average-
1	French	# People	596,219	24	1234
2	French as a % of total French speakers	% People	0	21	1230

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	1231
2	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	31	1	1233
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	124	1233
4	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	124	1234
5	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	5,059,423	120	1232
6	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	110	1230
7	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	104	1232
8	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	104	1233
9	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	32	1	1231
10	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	101	1233
11	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	98	1230
12	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,858,694	86	1232
13	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	84	1230
14	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	66	1234
15	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	88,812	51	1231
16	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	16	1231
17	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	5	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	18	1126
Below than World Average-
1	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	152	1232
2	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	125	1231
3	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	123	1235
4	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		46	133	1233
5	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	112	1230
6	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	129	1234
7	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	126	1235
8	GDP (Billions USD) 2025	$ Billions	613	122	1233
9	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		53	122	1230
10	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	115	1232
11	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	114	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	22	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	83	1233
2	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	39	1233
3	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	76	1232
4	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	75	1230
5	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	75	1235
6	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	57	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	53	1126
2	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	67	1126
3	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	67	1125
4	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	96	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	170	1231
2	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	129	1232
3	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	128	1234
4	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	119	1233
5	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	119	1233
6	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	111	1234
7	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	102	1233
8	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	97	1235
9	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	76	1232
10	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	73	1231
11	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	20,409,734	72	1235
12	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	57	1232
13	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	52	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	65	1128
2	Pop. without Electricity Access / Total Pop.%	% People	14	34	1129
3	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,455,508	36	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	162	1234
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1231
3	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1234
4	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	131	1234
5	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	116	1234
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	108	1233
7	Urban Population (2021)	# People	23,726,053	80	1231
8	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	63	1235
9	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	73	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	98	1126
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	93	1231
2	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	64	1230
3	Christian Population	# People	11,885,917	64	1234
4	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	57	1230
5	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	57	1234
6	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	55	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	185	1233
2	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	166	1234
3	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	124	1233
4	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	124	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	31	167	1232
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	25	167	1231
3	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	166	1233
4	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	155	1230
5	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	31	152	1233
6	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	13	151	1230
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	14	148	1231
8	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	123	1232
9	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	35	135	1233
10	Facebook users	# People	6,757,917	133	1230
11	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	112	1232
12	Twitter users	# People	3,173,740	127	1235
13	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	105	1235
14	LinkedIn users	# People	6,388,891	106	1232
15	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	104	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	150	1231
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	124	1230
3	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	132	1230
4	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	130	1233
5	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	160	46	1234

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

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	:	4,741
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	152^nd/195
Life Expectancy	:	61
Unemployment Rate	:	1
Number of Internet Users	:	4,823,596
Internet Users Rank	:	104^th/195
Area	:	112,760
Area Rank	:	99^th/195
Total Population	:	14,814
Total Population Rank	:	75^th/195

Continent: Africa

Cities with > 100K popln: 3

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