Benin

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
11,485,674 1
Urban
47.30% 1
Rural
52.70% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
2.3% 2
Homicides
6.01 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
95 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
127 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
4.69 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
10.00% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
60 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
28.70% 6
Internet Users
5% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$890 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
53.1% 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
3,942,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
32.74
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
32,571
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
26,644
First Communions per Year
35,149
Confirmations per Year
23,355
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
48,569
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
31,425
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
2,763
Church Marriages per Year
2,991
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
2,604
Priests
1,349
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
1,482
Catholics per Priest
2,922
Parishes
517
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
1,384
Catholic Hospitals
28
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
7