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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Benin	India	Benin	India
1960	2,517,286	435,990,338	-	-
1961	2,559,223	446,564,729	1.67%	2.43%
1962	2,604,659	457,283,090	1.78%	2.4%
1963	2,652,908	468,138,575	1.85%	2.37%
1964	2,704,003	479,229,598	1.93%	2.37%
1965	2,757,936	490,140,146	1.99%	2.28%
1966	2,814,317	500,740,247	2.04%	2.16%
1967	2,872,997	511,606,372	2.09%	2.17%
1968	2,934,257	522,716,889	2.13%	2.17%
1969	2,998,222	533,880,544	2.18%	2.14%
1970	3,065,057	545,864,268	2.23%	2.24%
1971	3,134,767	558,096,387	2.27%	2.24%
1972	3,207,543	570,482,142	2.32%	2.22%
1973	3,283,496	583,465,598	2.37%	2.28%
1974	3,362,633	597,041,391	2.41%	2.33%
1975	3,445,407	611,309,535	2.46%	2.39%
1976	3,532,196	625,861,883	2.52%	2.38%
1977	3,623,202	640,801,103	2.58%	2.39%
1978	3,718,305	655,728,229	2.62%	2.33%
1979	3,818,528	671,155,747	2.7%	2.35%
1980	3,925,251	687,354,025	2.79%	2.41%
1981	4,038,307	703,696,250	2.88%	2.38%
1982	4,156,596	720,313,473	2.93%	2.36%
1983	4,278,978	737,372,681	2.94%	2.37%
1984	4,405,895	754,875,449	2.97%	2.37%
1985	4,538,012	772,647,793	3%	2.35%
1986	4,675,420	790,689,978	3.03%	2.34%
1987	4,818,486	808,931,270	3.06%	2.31%
1988	4,967,341	827,342,990	3.09%	2.28%
1989	5,121,657	846,039,529	3.11%	2.26%
1990	5,281,479	864,972,221	3.12%	2.24%
1991	5,446,932	883,927,600	3.13%	2.19%
1992	5,617,844	902,957,070	3.14%	2.15%
1993	5,872,706	922,118,387	4.54%	2.12%
1994	6,096,506	941,163,767	3.81%	2.07%
1995	6,226,773	960,301,044	2.14%	2.03%
1996	6,391,858	979,678,458	2.65%	2.02%
1997	6,583,365	999,133,762	3%	1.99%
1998	6,789,489	1,018,665,080	3.13%	1.95%
1999	7,002,818	1,038,225,823	3.14%	1.92%
2000	7,221,619	1,057,922,733	3.12%	1.9%
2001	7,445,596	1,077,898,575	3.1%	1.89%
2002	7,675,426	1,097,600,380	3.09%	1.83%
2003	7,913,070	1,116,803,006	3.1%	1.75%
2004	8,159,094	1,135,991,513	3.11%	1.72%
2005	8,426,144	1,154,676,322	3.27%	1.64%
2006	8,693,242	1,172,878,890	3.17%	1.58%
2007	8,953,969	1,190,676,021	3%	1.52%
2008	9,228,466	1,207,930,964	3.07%	1.45%
2009	9,509,423	1,225,524,753	3.04%	1.46%
2010	9,797,484	1,243,481,564	3.03%	1.47%
2011	10,093,623	1,261,224,954	3.02%	1.43%
2012	10,397,657	1,278,674,502	3.01%	1.38%
2013	10,708,834	1,295,829,511	2.99%	1.34%
2014	11,030,004	1,312,277,191	3%	1.27%
2015	11,360,681	1,328,024,498	3%	1.2%
2016	11,697,842	1,343,944,296	2.97%	1.2%
2017	12,039,780	1,359,657,400	2.92%	1.17%
2018	12,383,347	1,374,659,064	2.85%	1.1%
2019	12,726,755	1,389,030,312	2.77%	1.05%
2020	13,070,169	1,402,617,695	2.7%	0.98%
2021	13,413,417	1,414,203,896	2.63%	0.83%
2022	13,759,501	1,425,423,212	2.58%	0.79%
2023	14,111,034	1,438,069,596	2.55%	0.89%
2024	14,462,724	1,450,935,791	2.49%	0.89%
2025	14,814,463	1,463,865,531	2.43%	0.89%
2026	15,170,422	1,476,625,576	2.4%	0.87%
2027	15,529,420	1,489,164,679	2.37%	0.85%
2028	15,890,289	1,501,432,748	2.32%	0.82%
2029	16,253,927	1,513,423,737	2.29%	0.8%
2030	16,618,827	1,525,138,852	2.24%	0.77%
2031	16,985,939	1,536,540,604	2.21%	0.75%
2032	17,357,069	1,547,607,126	2.18%	0.72%
2033	17,731,448	1,558,324,087	2.16%	0.69%
2034	18,109,922	1,568,688,356	2.13%	0.67%
2035	18,492,634	1,578,694,799	2.11%	0.64%
2036	18,878,049	1,588,325,366	2.08%	0.61%
2037	19,264,504	1,597,537,009	2.05%	0.58%
2038	19,655,285	1,606,300,646	2.03%	0.55%
2039	20,049,973	1,614,639,243	2.01%	0.52%
2040	20,445,765	1,622,580,052	1.97%	0.49%
2041	20,843,268	1,630,119,374	1.94%	0.46%
2042	21,242,984	1,637,235,363	1.92%	0.44%
2043	21,643,647	1,643,915,269	1.89%	0.41%
2044	22,042,581	1,650,186,610	1.84%	0.38%
2045	22,443,653	1,656,067,585	1.82%	0.36%
2046	22,846,199	1,661,548,400	1.79%	0.33%
2047	23,245,147	1,666,628,151	1.75%	0.31%
2048	23,642,198	1,671,309,727	1.71%	0.28%
2049	24,038,614	1,675,619,893	1.68%	0.26%
2050	24,433,817	1,679,589,268	1.64%	0.24%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Benin increased by 3,004,600 people (a 34.6% growth), while India gained 171,065,406 people (a 14.6% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Benin gained 3,476,503 (a 29.7% growth), while India's population increased by 132,818,319 (a 9.88% growth).

Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2006 and is 76th in 2026. India was ranked 2nd in 2006 and ranked 1st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Benin's population will grow by 61% to 24,433,817 people with a rank change from 76th to 68th. The population of India will increase by 13.7% to 1,679,589,268 people and will still be ranked 1st.