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🇧🇯 Benin
Republic of Benin
BEN BJ Fr West African CFA franc (XOF)
Every statistic we track for Benin — 136 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$5,088
64.6 yrs
4.39
0.32
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All indicators
📈 Economy
| Account Ownership | 51.8% | #107/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Account Ownership | 51.8% | #107/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Branches | 2.5 | #146/153 | 2024 |
| Current Account Balance | -5% | #139/190 | 2026 |
| Debit Card Ownership | 4.9% | #135/140 | 2024 |
| Digital Payments Usage | 47.7% | #61/97 | 2024 |
| Economic Freedom of the World | 6.3 | #96/163 | 2022 |
| Economy Seen as Good (Afrobarometer) | 37.3% | #8/39 | 2023 |
| Exchange Rate (per US$) | 606.4 | #23/197 | 2024 |
| Extreme Poverty | 0% | #70/237 | 2023 |
| Fiscal Balance | -2.9% | #90/189 | 2026 |
| GDP (current US$) | 27.8 | #121/190 | 2026 |
| GDP (PPP) | 78.1 | #116/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita | 1,809 | #162/190 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita (Long Run) | 2,477 | #139/165 | 2022 |
| GDP per Capita (PPP) | 5,088 | #159/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita Growth | 2.5% | #100/184 | 2019 |
| Government Debt | 57.2% | #81/185 | 2026 |
| Income per Person | 1,625 | #160/183 | 2018 |
| Inflation (CPI) | 2% | #164/191 | 2026 |
| Made a Digital Payment | 25% | #102/144 | 2017 |
| Mobile Money Account | 44.9% | #26/80 | 2024 |
| Real GDP Growth | 7% | #8/191 | 2026 |
| Share of World GDP (PPP) | 0% | #106/191 | 2026 |
| Total GDP (Long Run) | 33,290,362,034 | #125/165 | 2022 |
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 4.5 | #14/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.6 | #20/172 | 2023 |
| Internally Displaced People | 27,294 | #35/38 | 2025 |
| Median Age | 18.2 | #218/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 9.6 | #89/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 15.4 | #72/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 134.5 | #96/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 1,279 | #102/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 52.5% | #146/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 59% | #188/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 25.8% | #31/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 34% | #159/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 105.8 | #125/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 20.1% | #64/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 3.2% | #70/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 6.3 | #123/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.5 | #164/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 395 | #131/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 37.8 | #140/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 4% | #166/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 47.4 | #110/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 59.4% | #13/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.2 | #50/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 8.5 | #59/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 24.8 | #18/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 69.7% | #5/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 80.4% | #111/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 42.9% | #83/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.2 | #153/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 32.6% | #47/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 8.2% | #56/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 5.6 | #35/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 43.7 | #124/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 3.5 | #115/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 80.8% | #31/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.4 | #124/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.8 | #106/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.1 | #125/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #95/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.4 | #117/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.2 | #25/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.1 | #146/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.5 | #173/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 93.9% | #5/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 66% | #15/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 13.8% | #51/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 88.6% | #36/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 81.8% | #57/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 79.6% | #8/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 58.7% | #3/39 | 2023 |
| Trade Union Membership | 16.2% | #36/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 63.9% | #14/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.3 | #43/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 50.2% | #133/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 39.3% | #136/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.2 | #61/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 72.9% | #11/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.