International Rankings of Benin 2021, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Benin, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Benin, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	147	1.00	2018
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	148	25032	N/A
Internet users - percent of population	188	20.00 %	2018
Internet users - total	110	2.404 million	N/A
Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	184	1.00	2019
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	163	35917	N/A
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	163	83.25	2019
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	86	10.350 million	N/A
Economy
Budget - expenditures	148	2.152 billion US Dollars	2017
Budget - revenues	152	1.578 billion US Dollars	2017
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	85	6.20 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	136	1.024 billion US Dollars	2017
Debt - external	146	2.804 billion US Dollars	2017
Ease of Doing Business Index scores - Enforcement score	124	42	2020
Ease of Doing Business Index scores - Overall score	118	52	2020
Ease of Doing Business Index scores - Starting a Business score	41	91	2020
Ease of Doing Business Index scores - Trading score	83	69	2020
Exports	136	3.056 billion US Dollars	2018
GDP (official exchange rate)	145	10.315 billion US Dollars	2018
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	105	31.60 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	98	13.10 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	62	70.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	84	43.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	36	27.60 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	26	26.10 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	103	22.80 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	134	51.10 % of GDP	2017
Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income	19	48 %	2015
Gross national saving	84	20	2018
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10%	65	29.00 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	2003
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10%	20	3.10 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	N/A
Imports	133	5.458 billion US Dollars	2019
Industrial production growth rate	58	3.00 %	2017
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	93	0.80 %	2019
Labor force	98	3.662 million US Dollars	2007
Population below poverty line	40	39 %	2019
Public debt	71	54.60 % of GDP	2017
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	127	38.794 billion US Dollars	2019
Real GDP growth rate	28	5.60 %	2017
Real GDP per capita	187	3287 US Dollars	2019
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	140	698.900 million US Dollars	2017
Taxes and other revenues	133	17.10 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	162	1.00 %	2014
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy	128	5.664 million	2017
Crude oil - proved reserves	83	8.000 million	2018
Electricity - consumption	151	1.143 billion kWh	2016
Electricity - from fossil fuels	11	88	2016
Electricity - from hydroelectric plants	60	9	2017
Electricity - from other renewable sources	39	2	2017
Electricity - imports	68	1.088 billion kWh	2016
Electricity - installed generating capacity	156	321000 kWh	2016
Electricity - production	169	335.000 million	2016
Natural gas - proved reserves	88	1.133 billion	2018
Refined petroleum products - consumption	107	38000	2016
Refined petroleum products - exports	107	1514 bbl/day	2015
Refined petroleum products - imports	93	38040 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions	117	6 megatons	2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions	116	6 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	45	33 micrograms per cubic meter	2016
Land use - agricultural land	113	31	2018
Land use - arable land	41	23	2018
Land use - forest	70	40	2018
Land use - other	82	29	2018
Land use - permanent crops	54	4	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	131	5	2018
Revenue from forest resources	29	2 % of GDP	2018
Total renewable water resources	110	26.390 billion	2017
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	138	59.000 million cubic meters	2017
Total water withdrawal - industrial	128	30.000 million cubic meters	2017
Total water withdrawal - municipal	121	145.000 million cubic meters	2017
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	21	3.74	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	125	49	2021
Waste and recycling - municipal solid waste generated annually	90	685936.00 tons	1993
Waste and recycling - municipal solid waste recycled annually	71	171484 tons	2005
Waste and recycling - percent of municipal solid waste recycled	30	25.00 %	2005
Geography
Area - land	100	110622 sq km	N/A
Area - total	101	112622 sq km	N/A
Area - water	89	2000 sq km	N/A
Coastline	143	121 km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	144	658 meters	N/A
Elevation - mean elevation	113	273 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	120	230 sq km	2012
Land boundaries - total	84	2123 km	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	113	31	2018
Land use - arable land	41	23	2018
Land use - forest	70	40	2018
Land use - other	82	29	2018
Land use - permanent crops	54	4	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	131	5	2018
Total renewable water resources	109	26.390 billion	2017
Population Density	89	120.24 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	62	1 % of GDP	2019
Population
Age structure - 15-24 years	17	20.36	N/A
Age structure - 25-54 years	199	28.54	N/A
Age structure - 55-64 years	201	3.15	1427
Birth rate	4	41.55 births/1,000 population	2021
Contraceptive prevalence rate	122	15.50 %	1718
Current Health Expenditure	83	3 % of GDP	2018
Death rate	69	8.21 deaths/1,000 population	2021
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	112	6.00 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	38	16.70 %	2020
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	21	82.60 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	20	76.60 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	64	81 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - rural	32	28 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - total	23	24 % of population	2017
Drinking water source - unimproved	5	19 % of population	N/A
Education expenditures	48	3 % of GDP	2018
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate	29	0.90	2020
HIV/AIDS - deaths	31	2000	2020
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS	42	75000	2020
Hospital bed density	64	0.50 beds/1,000 population	2010
Infant mortality rate - female	14	51.85 deaths/1,000 live births	2021
Infant mortality rate - male	16	62.34 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	16	57.23 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - female	184	64 years	2021
Life expectancy at birth - male	187	60 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	184	62 years	N/A
Maternal mortality rate	23	397.00	2017
Median age - female	158	18 years	2020
Median age - male	147	16 years	N/A
Median age - total	146	17 years	N/A
Mother's mean age at first birth	68	21	1718
Net migration rate	69	0.25 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	106	9.60 %	2016
Physicians density	148	0.08 physicians/1,000 population	2018
Population	73	13.302 million	2021
Population growth rate	5	3.36 %	2021
Sanitation facility access - improved	96	59 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - rural	9	84 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - total	9	64 % of population	2017
Sanitation facility access - unimproved	10	41 % of population	N/A
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - female	11	11 years	2016
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - male	7	14 years	N/A
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - total	9	13 years	N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	13	1.02 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-24 years	25	0.99	N/A
Sex ratio - 25-54 years	35	0.90	N/A
Sex ratio - 55-64 years	30	0.92	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	27	0.84 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	9	1.05 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	20	0.97 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	6	5.47 children born/woman	2021
Unemployment youth ages 15-24 - female	127	6	2011
Unemployment youth ages 15-24 - male	119	5	N/A
Unemployment youth ages 15-24 - total	125	6	N/A
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	21	3.74	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	125	49	2021
Transportation
Airports	116	6	2013
Airports - with paved runways - 1524 to 2437 m	43	1	2017
Airports - with paved runways - total	77	1	2017
Airports - with unpaved runways - 1524 to 2437 m	29	1	2013
Airports - with unpaved runways - 914 to 1523 m	56	2	2013
Airports - with unpaved runways - total	91	5	2013
National air transport system - annual freight traffic on registered air carriers	112	805347	2015
National air transport system - annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers	138	112392	2015
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers	101	1.00	2015
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers	27	1	2015
Railways - total	105	438 km	2014
Roadways - paved	117	1400 km	2006
Roadways - total	97	16000 km	2006
Waterways	88	150 km	N/A

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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