Urban population: 50.1% of total population (2023)
Rate of urbanization: 3.74% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
0-14 - years : 45.56% (male 2,955,396/female 2,906,079)
15-24 - years : 20.36% (male 1,300,453/female 1,318,880)
25-54 - years : 28.54% (male 1,735,229/female 1,935,839)
55-64 - years : 3.15% (male 193,548/female 211,427)
65 - years and over : 2.39% (male 140,513/female 167,270) (2020 est.)
Total dependency ratio: 84
Youth dependency ratio: 78.3
Elderly dependency ratio: 5.7
Potential support ratio: 17.7 (2021 est.)
Total: 17 years
Male: 16.4 years
Female: 17.6 years (2020 est.)
at - birth : 1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 - years : 1.02 male(s)/female
15-24 - years : 1 male(s)/female
25-54 - years : 0.9 male(s)/female
55-64 - years : 0.91 male(s)/female
65 - years and over : 0.72 male(s)/female
total - population : 0.97 male(s)/female (2022 est.)
Total: 55.76 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 60.79 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 50.48 deaths/1,000 live births (2022 est.)
Total population: 62.21 years
Male: 60.39 years
Female: 64.14 years (2022 est.)
Total population: 62.21 years
Male: 60.39 years
Female: 64.14 years (2022 est.)
Total: 6.9% (2020 est.)
Male: 11.8% (2020 est.)
Female: 1.9% (2020 est.)
Improved: urban
Rural: 29.2% of population
Total: 25.3% of population (2020 est.)
Unimproved: urban
Improved: Urban
Rural: 81.9% of population
Total: 63.4% of population (2020 est.)
Unimproved: Urban
Women married by age 15: 9.4%
Women married by age 18: 30.6%
Men married by age 18: 4.8% (2018 est.)
Degree of risk: Very high (2020)
Food or waterborne diseases: Bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
Vectorborne diseases: Dengue fever and malaria
Animal contact diseases: Rabies
Respiratory diseases: Meningococcal meningitis
Note: On 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Benin is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected†person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine
Definition: Age 15 and over can read and write
Total population: 42.4%
Male: 54%
Female: 31.1% (2018)
Total: 11 years
Male: 12 years
Female: 10 years (2020)
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