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Population in Benin compared to the Cayman Islands: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Benin was 14,462,724 in 2024 vs 74,457 people in the Cayman Islands in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Benin's population is 15,100,397 people compared to 76,930 in the Cayman Islands.

Population statistics:

  • Benin's population is 196.3 times bigger than the Cayman Islands'.
  • Benin is ranked the 76th most populous country in the world, while the Cayman Islands is the 187th.
  • The countries together account for 0.18% of the world: 0.18% for Benin vs 0.0009% for the Cayman Islands.
  • For the last 10 years, Benin has had an average growth rate of +2.77% per year vs +2.19% in the Cayman Islands.
  • Since 2005, the population of Benin has increased from 8.43M people to 15.1M (79.2% growth), while the Cayman Islands has grown from 46.8K to 76.9K (64.4% growth).
  • Benin is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 39.6M people compared to the peak of 118K people in 2097 for the Cayman Islands.

Benin vs Cayman Islands: live population counter

Benin Cayman Islands
Current population
15100397
76930
Population rank 76/197 187/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.0009%
One net population change
1.49 minutes
6.17 hours
One birth every
1.1 minutes
10.1 hours
One death every
4.23 minutes
1.04 days
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
9.78 hours
Annual migration change -7,725 +896
Daily growth/decline +964 +4
Annual growth/decline +351,690 +1,419
Annual growth/decline rate +2.49% +1.94%
Population growth rate rank 28/197 56/197

Benin and the Cayman Islands: population history and growth rate by year chart

Benin
Population

Growth rate
Cayman Islands
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Benin Cayman Islands Benin Cayman Islands
1960 2,517,286 8,428 - -
1961 2,559,223 8,601 1.67% 2.05%
1962 2,604,659 8,781 1.78% 2.09%
1963 2,652,908 8,970 1.85% 2.15%
1964 2,704,003 9,166 1.93% 2.19%
1965 2,757,936 9,361 1.99% 2.13%
1966 2,814,317 9,560 2.04% 2.13%
1967 2,872,997 9,769 2.09% 2.19%
1968 2,934,257 9,971 2.13% 2.07%
1969 2,998,222 10,165 2.18% 1.95%
1970 3,065,057 10,517 2.23% 3.46%
1971 3,134,767 11,098 2.27% 5.52%
1972 3,207,543 11,764 2.32% 6%
1973 3,283,496 12,438 2.37% 5.73%
1974 3,362,633 13,114 2.41% 5.43%
1975 3,445,407 13,788 2.46% 5.14%
1976 3,532,196 14,454 2.52% 4.83%
1977 3,623,202 15,105 2.58% 4.5%
1978 3,718,305 15,727 2.62% 4.12%
1979 3,818,528 16,351 2.7% 3.97%
1980 3,925,251 17,079 2.79% 4.45%
1981 4,038,307 17,905 2.88% 4.84%
1982 4,156,596 18,750 2.93% 4.72%
1983 4,278,978 19,598 2.94% 4.52%
1984 4,405,895 20,454 2.97% 4.37%
1985 4,538,012 21,324 3% 4.25%
1986 4,675,420 22,197 3.03% 4.09%
1987 4,818,486 23,073 3.06% 3.95%
1988 4,967,341 23,951 3.09% 3.81%
1989 5,121,657 24,874 3.11% 3.85%
1990 5,281,479 25,999 3.12% 4.52%
1991 5,446,932 27,294 3.13% 4.98%
1992 5,617,844 28,621 3.14% 4.86%
1993 5,872,706 29,976 4.54% 4.73%
1994 6,096,506 31,352 3.81% 4.59%
1995 6,226,773 32,743 2.14% 4.44%
1996 6,391,858 34,143 2.65% 4.28%
1997 6,583,365 35,543 3% 4.1%
1998 6,789,489 36,922 3.13% 3.88%
1999 7,002,818 38,284 3.14% 3.69%
2000 7,221,619 39,674 3.12% 3.63%
2001 7,445,596 41,089 3.1% 3.57%
2002 7,675,426 42,514 3.09% 3.47%
2003 7,913,070 43,934 3.1% 3.34%
2004 8,159,094 45,352 3.11% 3.23%
2005 8,426,144 46,788 3.27% 3.17%
2006 8,693,242 48,232 3.17% 3.09%
2007 8,953,969 49,687 3% 3.02%
2008 9,228,466 51,151 3.07% 2.95%
2009 9,509,423 52,618 3.04% 2.87%
2010 9,797,484 54,099 3.03% 2.81%
2011 10,093,623 55,606 3.02% 2.79%
2012 10,397,657 57,136 3.01% 2.75%
2013 10,708,834 58,655 2.99% 2.66%
2014 11,030,004 60,160 3% 2.57%
2015 11,360,681 61,642 3% 2.46%
2016 11,697,842 63,100 2.97% 2.37%
2017 12,039,780 64,535 2.92% 2.27%
2018 12,383,347 65,941 2.85% 2.18%
2019 12,726,755 67,327 2.77% 2.1%
2020 13,070,169 68,684 2.7% 2.02%
2021 13,413,417 70,108 2.63% 2.07%
2022 13,759,501 71,591 2.58% 2.12%
2023 14,111,034 73,038 2.55% 2.02%
2024 14,462,724 74,457 2.49% 1.94%
2025 14,814,463 75,842 2.43% 1.86%
2026 15,170,422 77,197 2.4% 1.79%
2027 15,529,420 78,532 2.37% 1.73%
2028 15,890,289 79,852 2.32% 1.68%
2029 16,253,927 81,146 2.29% 1.62%
2030 16,618,827 82,412 2.24% 1.56%
2031 16,985,939 83,676 2.21% 1.53%
2032 17,357,069 84,915 2.18% 1.48%
2033 17,731,448 86,125 2.16% 1.42%
2034 18,109,922 87,319 2.13% 1.39%
2035 18,492,634 88,457 2.11% 1.3%
2036 18,878,049 89,597 2.08% 1.29%
2037 19,264,504 90,741 2.05% 1.28%
2038 19,655,285 91,867 2.03% 1.24%
2039 20,049,973 92,983 2.01% 1.21%
2040 20,445,765 94,101 1.97% 1.2%
2041 20,843,268 95,206 1.94% 1.17%
2042 21,242,984 96,287 1.92% 1.14%
2043 21,643,647 97,352 1.89% 1.11%
2044 22,042,581 98,386 1.84% 1.06%
2045 22,443,653 99,371 1.82% 1%
2046 22,846,199 100,330 1.79% 0.96%
2047 23,245,147 101,257 1.75% 0.92%
2048 23,642,198 102,188 1.71% 0.92%
2049 24,038,614 103,075 1.68% 0.87%
2050 24,433,817 103,943 1.64% 0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Benin increased by 2,934,537 people (a 34.8% growth), while the Cayman Islands gained 14,854 people (a 31.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Benin gained 3,739,716 (a 32.9% growth), while the Cayman Islands' population increased by 15,288 (a 24.8% growth).

Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2005 and is 76th in 2025. The Cayman Islands was ranked 189th in 2005 and ranked 187th 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 the Cayman Islands will increase by 35.1% to 103,943 people and rank change from 187th to 184th.

Biggest cities by population

Benin
City Population
Cotonou 679K
Porto-Novo 264K
Abomey 90.2K
Save 31.4K
Cayman Islands
City Population
George Town 40.2K

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