Benin
65 figures for Benin, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Benin compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $1,658 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $4,817 (2025)
- Economic growth +8.1% (2025)
- Unemployment 1.6% (2025)
- Inflation +1.2% (2024)
- Exports 18.8% (2024)
- Income per person $3,805 (2023)
- Household wealth 36.4 (2018)
- Poorer households 77.3% (2018)
- Wealth inequality 0.29 (2018)
- Women in paid work 77.2% (2019)
People
- Population 14.1 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.40% (2025)
- Births per woman 4.48 (2024)
- Typical age 17.8 (2023)
- Living in cities 53.4% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.515 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.866 (2023)
- People per household 7.6 (2018)
- People over 65 4.0% (2018)
- Children under 15 48.0% (2018)
- Women’s age at first marriage 18.9 (2018)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.9 (2018)
Health
- Life expectancy 60.8 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 74.7 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 518 (2023)
- Health spending per person $47 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 44% (2024)
- Overweight adults 30.1% (2022)
- Stunted children 32.7% (2018)
- Overweight children 2.1% (2018)
- Homes with piped water 9.4% (2018)
- Homes with a flush toilet 5.3% (2018)
Education
- Years of schooling 3.2 (2023)
- Expected years in school 10.4 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 43.6% (2022)
- Education spending 3.1% (2022)
- Teens in school 47.3% (2018)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.419 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 6.07 million (2024)
- Forest cover 26.5% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 35.3 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 54.5% (2021)
- Average temperature 27.4 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 395 (2023)
- Access to electricity 59.0% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 4.0% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 93.5% (2018)
Technology
- Internet users 34.0% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 105.7 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.2 (2022)
- Homes with internet 4.6% (2018)
- Homes with a mobile phone 83.9% (2018)
Food and farming
- Hunger 14.3% (2023)
- Cereal yield 1,127 (2023)
- Farmland 41.8% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 40.2% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.49 (2025)
- Human rights 0.84 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.21 (2025)
- Women in parliament 26.6% (2025)
- Military spending 0.7% (2024)
- Clean government 55.4 (2022)