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)
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  • 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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    • October 2010
      Source: World Bank
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      Accessed On: 01 December, 2014
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      Data cited at: The World Bank https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/ Topic: Africa's Infrastructure: Airports Publication: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/africas-infrastructure-airports License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) has data collection and analysis on the status of the main network infrastructures. The AICD database provides cross-country data on network infrastructure for nine major sectors: air transport, information and communication technologies, irrigation, ports, power, railways, roads, water and sanitation.