Benin World Economy Ranking: 61 stats

Economic indicators provided by The World Bank. Freedom indexes by The Heritage and Cato Institute. Human development data from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Benin	Rank
GDP	$10.4B	143
GDP growth, 1 year	6.5%	21
GDP growth, 5-years average	5%	34
Population	11.2M	80
GDP per capita	$902	173
GDP per capita growth	3.98%	38
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	206.52	37
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.37	140
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$2.4k	170
GNI, Atlas method	$10B	139
GNI per capita	$870	168
GNI, PPP adjusted	$27.6B	130
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$2.4k	164

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Benin	Rank
Income Tax Rate	45%	155
Corporate Tax Rate	30%	128
Inflation, consumer prices	1%	28
Inflation, GDP deflator	0%	13
Unemployment	2.1%	24
Economic Freedom Index	55.2	144
Personal Freedom Index	7.46	70
Human Freedom Index	6.85	92
Property Rights Index	41.3	144
Judical Effectiveness Index	36.4	114
Business Freedom Index	58	120
Fiscal Health Index	46.6	137
Labor Freedom Index	53.7	119
Investment Freedom Index	60	94
Financial Freedom Index	50	99
Trade Freedom Index	49.4	170
Monetary Freedom Index	84.3	14
Government Spending Index	84.2	46
Tax Burden Index	69	142
Government Integrity Index	29.6	133
Corruption Perceptions Index	40	103
Life expectancy at birth, years	61.2	175
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	9.9	130
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	27.5	169
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	1.1	42
International tourism, number of arrivals	295k	147

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Benin	Rank
Central government debt, % of GDP	54.6%	83
External debt stocks, % of GNI	35.9%	77
External debt stocks	$3.7B	83
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	N/A	-
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	7.8%	83
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	-3.4%	134
Gross savings, % of GDP	12.3%	148
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	25.8%	61
Total reserves including gold	N/A	-
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$207.5M	131

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Benin	Rank
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	35.4%	100
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	44.2%	87
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$927.3M	106
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	12.9%	138
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$328.1M	62
Personal remittances received	$198.7M	130
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	21.5%	119
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	22.6%	31
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$18k	157
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$877	147
Expense, % of GDP	N/A	-
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	23%	133