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Benin

  • President:Patrice Talon
  • Vice President:Mariam Chabi Talata
  • Capital city:Porto-Novo
  • Languages:French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:14,637,545 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:112,760
  • GDP per capita, US$:1,394 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:19.7 (2023)
  • GINI index:34.4 (2021)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:149

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    • Census Data for Africa
      March 2022
      Source: The Africa Information Highway
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 11 July, 2022
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      Data cited at: https://dataportal.opendataforafrica.org/rtufdnc/social This Dataset describes the list of common indicators from census datasets of African countries.
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    • Foreign Trade Statistics of Benin
      April 2025
      Source: National Institute of Statistics and Economic Analysis, Benin
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 07 May, 2025
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      Note: " Degree of openness (in%) value for 2019 has been modified from 13 to 0.13 as it looks printing mistake at the source. There is no evidence to shoot up in 2019.
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