Urban population: 50.1% of total population (2023)
Rate of urbanization: 3.74% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
0-14 - years : 45.37% (male 3,256,439/female 3,194,700)
15-64 - years : 52.18% (male 3,595,897/female 3,823,786)
65 - years and over : 2.45% (2023 est.) (male 159,363/female 189,723)
Total dependency ratio: 84
Youth dependency ratio: 78.3
Elderly dependency ratio: 5.7
Potential support ratio: 17.7 (2021 est.)
Total: 17.1 years (2023 est.)
Male: 16.6 years
Female: 17.7 years
at - birth : 1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 - years : 1.02 male(s)/female
15-64 - years : 0.94 male(s)/female
65 - years and over : 0.84 male(s)/female
total - population : 0.97 male(s)/female (2023 est.)
Total: 54.3 deaths/1,000 live births (2023 est.)
Male: 59.3 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 49.1 deaths/1,000 live births
Total population: 62.6 years (2023 est.)
Male: 60.8 years
Female: 64.6 years
Total population: 62.6 years (2023 est.)
Male: 60.8 years
Female: 64.6 years
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 (2023)
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 31 August 2023, 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: 45.8%
Male: 56.9%
Female: 35% (2021)
Total: 11 years
Male: 12 years
Female: 10 years (2020)
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