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BEN · Sub-Saharan Africa

Benin

14,814,460

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+351.74K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+105.1%from 7.22M
Life expectancy61.0 years2024
Fertility rate4.48births per woman · 2024
Urban population53.4%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Benin is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1441.3%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6455.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.2%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate33.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate8.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+24.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-7.85Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Benin look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 24.43M in 2050—68.9% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202414.46M
  2. 205024.43M
  3. 210039.59M
Median age in 205023.0years
Births in 2050599.49Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050194.83Kduring the year
Life expectancy64.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19602.52M
  2. 19703.07M
  3. 19803.93M
  4. 19905.28M
  5. 20007.22M
  6. 20109.8M
  7. 202013.07M
  8. 202514.81M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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