Benín

General information

Name	Benin
Long name	Republic of Benin
Population (source)	census
Population (people)	9,983,884 (2013)
Constitutional form	Republic
Drives on	Right
Head of state authority	Executive
Main continent	Africa
Number of airports	5
Airports - with paved runways	1
Airports - with unpaved runways	4
Area (m²)	112,622
Birth rate (births/1,000 population)	38
Calling code
Children under the age of 5 years underweight (%)	20
Current Account Balance (US$)	-620,600,000
Death rate (deaths/1,000 population)	9
Debt - external (Billion US$)	1
Economic aid donor (Billion $)
Electricity consumption (billion kWh)	1
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person)	68
Electricity exports (million kWh)	0
Electricity imports (million kWh)	651
Electricity production (billion kWh)	0
Exports (Billion $)	2
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$)	1,500
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $)	15
GDP real growth rate (%)	3
Gross national income (US$)	37
Human Development Index	0
Health expenditures (% of GDP)	4
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HIV AIDS adult prevalence rate (%)	1
HIV AIDS deaths	2,700
HIV AIDS people living with HIV AIDS	60,000
Hospital bed density (beds/1,000 population)	1
Capital city	Porto-Novo
Currency	CFA franc
Imports (Billion $)	2
Industrial production growth rate (%)	3
Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births)	60
Inflation rate consumer prices (%)	3
Internet hosts	495
Internet tld	.bj
Internet users	200,100
Investment (gross fixed) (%)	22
Iso 3166 code	BJ
ISO CODE	BEN
Labor force	3,662,000
Life expectancy at birth (years)	60
Literacy (%)	42
Manpower available for military service	2,095,373
Manpower fit for military service	1,385,065
Manpower reaching militarily age annually	108,496
Is democracy	Yes
Market value of publicly traded shares (US$)
Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births)	350
Merchant marine
Military expenditures percent of GDP	1
Natural gas consumption (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas consumption per capita (cubic meters per person)	0
Natural gas exports (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas imports (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas production (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas proved reserves (cubic meters)	1,132,999,936
Net migration rate (migrant/1,000 population)	0
Obesity adult prevalence rate (%)
Oil consumption (bbl/day)	25,000
Oil consumption per capita (bbl/day per 1000 people)	3
Oil exports (bbl/day)	10,840
Oil imports (bbl/day)	33,410
Oil production (bbl/day)	0
Oil proved reserves (bbl)	8,000,000
Physicians density (physicians/1,000 population)	0
Population below poverty line (%)	37
Population census (people)	9,983,884 (2013)
Population density (Number of people per square kilometer)	85
Population estimate (people)
Population growth rate (%)	3
Public debt (% of GDP)	31
Railways (km)	438
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold (US$)	887,200,000
Roadways (km)	16,000
Stock of direct foreign investment abroad (US$)
Stock of direct foreign investment at home (US$)
Telephones main lines in use	152,700
Telephones main lines in use per capita	2
Telephones mobile cellular	7,765,000
Telephones mobile cellular per capita	83
Total fertility rate (children born/woman)	5
Unemployment rate (%)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 (%)	1
Waterways (km)	150
Valley
Helicopter
Canyon
Artillery
Crater
Religion
Continent	Africa
Border
Plateau
Marsh
Demonym	beninese

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