Benin People:
Population:
7,460,025 (July 2005 est.)
note: Estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
Age structure:
0-14 years: 46.5% (male:1,752,243; female:1,719,458)
15-64 years: 51.2% (male:1,868,630; female:1,948,610)
65 years and over: 2.3% (male:70,367; female:100,717) (2005)
Median age:
total: 16.56 years
male: 16.12 years
female: 17.01 years (2005)
Population growth rate:
2.82% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
41.99 births
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
13.76 deaths
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female (2005)
under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female (2005)
15-64 years: 0.96 male(s)/female (2005)
65 years and over: 0.7 male(s)/female (2005)
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2005)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 85 deaths
/
1,000 live births (2005 est.)
male: 90 deaths
/
1,000 live births
female: 79.86 deaths
/
1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total: 50.51 years (2005 est.)
male: 50.14 years
female: 50.89 years
Total fertility rate:
5.86 children born/woman (2005 est.)
HIV/AIDS — adult prevalence rate:
1.9% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS — people living with HIV/AIDS:
68,000 (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS — deaths:
5,800 (2003 est.)
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: malaria, yellow fever, and others are high risks in some locations
respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis (2004)
Nationality:
noun: Beninese (singular and plural)
adjective: Beninese
Ethnic groups:
African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5500
Religions:
indigenous beliefs 50%, Christian 30%, Muslim 20%
Languages:
French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 33.6%
male: 46.4%
female: 22.6% (2002)
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