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Population in Benin compared to Brazil: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Benin was 14,462,724 in 2024 vs 211,998,573 people in Brazil in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Benin's population is 15,100,397 people compared to 213,415,080 in Brazil.

Population statistics:

  • Brazil's population is 14.1 times bigger than Benin's.
  • Benin is ranked the 76th most populous country in the world, while Brazil is the 7th.
  • The countries together account for 2.76% of the world: 0.18% for Benin vs 2.58% for Brazil.
  • For the last 10 years, Benin has had an average growth rate of +2.77% per year vs +0.6% in Brazil.
  • Since 2005, the population of Benin has increased from 8.43M people to 15.1M (79.2% growth), while Brazil has grown from 185M to 213M (15.6% growth).
  • Benin is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 39.6M people compared to the peak of 219M people in 2042 for Brazil.

Benin vs Brazil: live population counter

Benin Brazil
Current population
15100397
213415080
Population rank 76/197 7/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 2.58%
One net population change
1.49 minutes
36.8 seconds
One birth every
1.1 minutes
12.1 seconds
One death every
4.23 minutes
21.1 seconds
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
2.33 minutes
Annual migration change -7,725 -225,510
Daily growth/decline +964 +2,350
Annual growth/decline +351,690 +857,844
Annual growth/decline rate +2.49% +0.41%
Population growth rate rank 28/197 141/197

Benin and Brazil: population history and growth rate by year chart

Benin
Population

Growth rate
Brazil
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Benin Brazil Benin Brazil
1960 2,517,286 72,388,126 - -
1961 2,559,223 74,605,447 1.67% 3.06%
1962 2,604,659 76,865,323 1.78% 3.03%
1963 2,652,908 79,164,235 1.85% 2.99%
1964 2,704,003 81,488,595 1.93% 2.94%
1965 2,757,936 83,817,583 1.99% 2.86%
1966 2,814,317 86,139,359 2.04% 2.77%
1967 2,872,997 88,446,124 2.09% 2.68%
1968 2,934,257 90,741,240 2.13% 2.59%
1969 2,998,222 93,045,777 2.18% 2.54%
1970 3,065,057 95,375,651 2.23% 2.5%
1971 3,134,767 97,739,273 2.27% 2.48%
1972 3,207,543 100,146,797 2.32% 2.46%
1973 3,283,496 102,600,976 2.37% 2.45%
1974 3,362,633 105,089,675 2.41% 2.43%
1975 3,445,407 107,619,565 2.46% 2.41%
1976 3,532,196 110,213,349 2.52% 2.41%
1977 3,623,202 112,875,292 2.58% 2.42%
1978 3,718,305 115,600,942 2.62% 2.41%
1979 3,818,528 118,380,821 2.7% 2.4%
1980 3,925,251 121,207,461 2.79% 2.39%
1981 4,038,307 124,063,109 2.88% 2.36%
1982 4,156,596 126,923,155 2.93% 2.31%
1983 4,278,978 129,790,077 2.94% 2.26%
1984 4,405,895 132,658,864 2.97% 2.21%
1985 4,538,012 135,515,595 3% 2.15%
1986 4,675,420 138,336,370 3.03% 2.08%
1987 4,818,486 141,104,944 3.06% 2%
1988 4,967,341 143,826,357 3.09% 1.93%
1989 5,121,657 146,502,972 3.11% 1.86%
1990 5,281,479 149,143,223 3.12% 1.8%
1991 5,446,932 151,724,256 3.13% 1.73%
1992 5,617,844 154,275,079 3.14% 1.68%
1993 5,872,706 156,794,577 4.54% 1.63%
1994 6,096,506 159,265,006 3.81% 1.58%
1995 6,226,773 161,735,073 2.14% 1.55%
1996 6,391,858 164,202,549 2.65% 1.53%
1997 6,583,365 166,661,659 3% 1.5%
1998 6,789,489 169,159,655 3.13% 1.5%
1999 7,002,818 171,641,543 3.14% 1.47%
2000 7,221,619 174,018,282 3.12% 1.38%
2001 7,445,596 176,301,203 3.1% 1.31%
2002 7,675,426 178,503,484 3.09% 1.25%
2003 7,913,070 180,622,688 3.1% 1.19%
2004 8,159,094 182,675,143 3.11% 1.14%
2005 8,426,144 184,688,101 3.27% 1.1%
2006 8,693,242 186,653,106 3.17% 1.06%
2007 8,953,969 188,552,320 3% 1.02%
2008 9,228,466 190,367,302 3.07% 0.96%
2009 9,509,423 192,079,951 3.04% 0.9%
2010 9,797,484 193,701,929 3.03% 0.84%
2011 10,093,623 195,284,734 3.02% 0.82%
2012 10,397,657 196,876,111 3.01% 0.81%
2013 10,708,834 198,478,299 2.99% 0.81%
2014 11,030,004 200,085,127 3% 0.81%
2015 11,360,681 201,675,532 3% 0.79%
2016 11,697,842 203,218,114 2.97% 0.76%
2017 12,039,780 204,703,445 2.92% 0.73%
2018 12,383,347 206,107,261 2.85% 0.69%
2019 12,726,755 207,455,459 2.77% 0.65%
2020 13,070,169 208,660,842 2.7% 0.58%
2021 13,413,417 209,550,294 2.63% 0.43%
2022 13,759,501 210,306,415 2.58% 0.36%
2023 14,111,034 211,140,729 2.55% 0.4%
2024 14,462,724 211,998,573 2.49% 0.41%
2025 14,814,463 212,812,405 2.43% 0.38%
2026 15,170,422 213,562,674 2.4% 0.35%
2027 15,529,420 214,261,037 2.37% 0.33%
2028 15,890,289 214,911,388 2.32% 0.3%
2029 16,253,927 215,515,178 2.29% 0.28%
2030 16,618,827 216,074,424 2.24% 0.26%
2031 16,985,939 216,587,355 2.21% 0.24%
2032 17,357,069 217,055,392 2.18% 0.22%
2033 17,731,448 217,479,394 2.16% 0.2%
2034 18,109,922 217,860,892 2.13% 0.18%
2035 18,492,634 218,199,715 2.11% 0.16%
2036 18,878,049 218,495,215 2.08% 0.14%
2037 19,264,504 218,747,246 2.05% 0.12%
2038 19,655,285 218,955,573 2.03% 0.1%
2039 20,049,973 219,118,385 2.01% 0.07%
2040 20,445,765 219,237,085 1.97% 0.05%
2041 20,843,268 219,307,158 1.94% 0.03%
2042 21,242,984 219,319,771 1.92% 0.006%
2043 21,643,647 219,276,528 1.89% -0.02%
2044 22,042,581 219,179,002 1.84% -0.04%
2045 22,443,653 219,026,208 1.82% -0.07%
2046 22,846,199 218,821,045 1.79% -0.09%
2047 23,245,147 218,565,379 1.75% -0.12%
2048 23,642,198 218,258,225 1.71% -0.14%
2049 24,038,614 217,897,833 1.68% -0.17%
2050 24,433,817 217,489,309 1.64% -0.19%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Benin increased by 2,934,537 people (a 34.8% growth), while Brazil gained 16,987,431 people (a 9.2% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Benin gained 3,739,716 (a 32.9% growth), while Brazil's population increased by 11,739,548 (a 5.82% growth).

Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2005 and is 76th in 2025. Brazil was ranked 5th in 2005 and ranked 7th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Benin's population will grow by 61.8% to 24,433,817 people with a rank change from 76th to 68th. The population of Brazil will increase by 1.91% to 217,489,309 people and rank change from 7th to 9th.

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