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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Benin was 14,462,724 in 2024 vs 283,487,931 people in Indonesia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Benin's population is 15,100,397 people compared to 287,460,768 in Indonesia.

Population statistics:

  • Indonesia's population is 19 times bigger than Benin's.
  • Benin is ranked the 76th most populous country in the world, while Indonesia is the 4th.
  • The countries together account for 3.66% of the world: 0.18% for Benin vs 3.48% for Indonesia.
  • For the last 10 years, Benin has had an average growth rate of +2.77% per year vs +0.94% in Indonesia.
  • Since 2005, the population of Benin has increased from 8.43M people to 15.1M (79.2% growth), while Indonesia has grown from 231M to 287M (24.5% growth).
  • Benin is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 39.6M people compared to the peak of 323M people in 2058 for Indonesia.

Benin vs Indonesia: live population counter

Benin Indonesia
Current population
15100397
287460768
Population rank 76/197 4/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 3.48%
One net population change
1.49 minutes
13.7 seconds
One birth every
1.1 minutes
7.04 seconds
One death every
4.23 minutes
14.9 seconds
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
13.7 minutes
Annual migration change -7,725 -38,469
Daily growth/decline +964 +6,296
Annual growth/decline +351,690 +2,297,864
Annual growth/decline rate +2.49% +0.82%
Population growth rate rank 28/197 117/197

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

Benin
Population

Growth rate
Indonesia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Benin Indonesia Benin Indonesia
1960 2,517,286 88,296,070 - -
1961 2,559,223 90,791,249 1.67% 2.83%
1962 2,604,659 93,375,850 1.78% 2.85%
1963 2,652,908 96,051,424 1.85% 2.87%
1964 2,704,003 98,833,749 1.93% 2.9%
1965 2,757,936 101,365,130 1.99% 2.56%
1966 2,814,317 103,792,754 2.04% 2.39%
1967 2,872,997 106,526,393 2.09% 2.63%
1968 2,934,257 109,450,006 2.13% 2.74%
1969 2,998,222 112,517,639 2.18% 2.8%
1970 3,065,057 115,657,495 2.23% 2.79%
1971 3,134,767 118,833,702 2.27% 2.75%
1972 3,207,543 122,039,841 2.32% 2.7%
1973 3,283,496 125,288,515 2.37% 2.66%
1974 3,362,633 128,555,045 2.41% 2.61%
1975 3,445,407 131,843,848 2.46% 2.56%
1976 3,532,196 135,173,655 2.52% 2.53%
1977 3,623,202 138,533,541 2.58% 2.49%
1978 3,718,305 141,953,163 2.62% 2.47%
1979 3,818,528 145,434,834 2.7% 2.45%
1980 3,925,251 148,950,540 2.79% 2.42%
1981 4,038,307 152,485,035 2.88% 2.37%
1982 4,156,596 156,052,152 2.93% 2.34%
1983 4,278,978 159,651,381 2.94% 2.31%
1984 4,405,895 163,251,124 2.97% 2.25%
1985 4,538,012 166,776,185 3% 2.16%
1986 4,675,420 170,175,065 3.03% 2.04%
1987 4,818,486 173,511,154 3.06% 1.96%
1988 4,967,341 176,855,065 3.09% 1.93%
1989 5,121,657 180,201,630 3.11% 1.89%
1990 5,281,479 183,501,098 3.12% 1.83%
1991 5,446,932 186,778,238 3.13% 1.79%
1992 5,617,844 190,043,744 3.14% 1.75%
1993 5,872,706 193,305,168 4.54% 1.72%
1994 6,096,506 196,591,828 3.81% 1.7%
1995 6,226,773 199,888,057 2.14% 1.68%
1996 6,391,858 203,204,348 2.65% 1.66%
1997 6,583,365 206,536,095 3% 1.64%
1998 6,789,489 209,826,788 3.13% 1.59%
1999 7,002,818 213,004,668 3.14% 1.51%
2000 7,221,619 216,077,790 3.12% 1.44%
2001 7,445,596 219,097,902 3.1% 1.4%
2002 7,675,426 222,088,495 3.09% 1.36%
2003 7,913,070 225,048,008 3.1% 1.33%
2004 8,159,094 227,926,649 3.11% 1.28%
2005 8,426,144 230,871,650 3.27% 1.29%
2006 8,693,242 233,951,652 3.17% 1.33%
2007 8,953,969 237,062,337 3% 1.33%
2008 9,228,466 240,157,903 3.07% 1.31%
2009 9,509,423 243,220,028 3.04% 1.28%
2010 9,797,484 246,305,322 3.03% 1.27%
2011 10,093,623 249,470,032 3.02% 1.28%
2012 10,397,657 252,698,525 3.01% 1.29%
2013 10,708,834 255,852,467 2.99% 1.25%
2014 11,030,004 258,877,399 3% 1.18%
2015 11,360,681 261,799,249 3% 1.13%
2016 11,697,842 264,627,418 2.97% 1.08%
2017 12,039,780 267,346,658 2.92% 1.03%
2018 12,383,347 269,951,846 2.85% 0.97%
2019 12,726,755 272,489,381 2.77% 0.94%
2020 13,070,169 274,814,866 2.7% 0.85%
2021 13,413,417 276,758,053 2.63% 0.71%
2022 13,759,501 278,830,529 2.58% 0.75%
2023 14,111,034 281,190,067 2.55% 0.85%
2024 14,462,724 283,487,931 2.49% 0.82%
2025 14,814,463 285,721,231 2.43% 0.79%
2026 15,170,422 287,886,778 2.4% 0.76%
2027 15,529,420 289,986,520 2.37% 0.73%
2028 15,890,289 292,016,774 2.32% 0.7%
2029 16,253,927 293,978,106 2.29% 0.67%
2030 16,618,827 295,876,644 2.24% 0.65%
2031 16,985,939 297,719,741 2.21% 0.62%
2032 17,357,069 299,510,654 2.18% 0.6%
2033 17,731,448 301,250,975 2.16% 0.58%
2034 18,109,922 302,938,571 2.13% 0.56%
2035 18,492,634 304,566,615 2.11% 0.54%
2036 18,878,049 306,135,097 2.08% 0.51%
2037 19,264,504 307,646,407 2.05% 0.49%
2038 19,655,285 309,096,450 2.03% 0.47%
2039 20,049,973 310,481,116 2.01% 0.45%
2040 20,445,765 311,797,391 1.97% 0.42%
2041 20,843,268 313,041,656 1.94% 0.4%
2042 21,242,984 314,211,278 1.92% 0.37%
2043 21,643,647 315,304,309 1.89% 0.35%
2044 22,042,581 316,318,412 1.84% 0.32%
2045 22,443,653 317,249,609 1.82% 0.29%
2046 22,846,199 318,096,567 1.79% 0.27%
2047 23,245,147 318,862,018 1.75% 0.24%
2048 23,642,198 319,554,646 1.71% 0.22%
2049 24,038,614 320,173,244 1.68% 0.19%
2050 24,433,817 320,712,941 1.64% 0.17%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Benin increased by 2,934,537 people (a 34.8% growth), while Indonesia gained 30,927,599 people (a 13.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Benin gained 3,739,716 (a 32.9% growth), while Indonesia's population increased by 25,661,519 (a 9.8% growth).

Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2005 and is 76th in 2025. Indonesia was ranked 4th in 2005 and still ranked 4th 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 Indonesia will increase by 11.6% to 320,712,941 people and rank change from 4th to 6th.

Biggest cities by population

Benin
City Population
Cotonou 679K
Porto-Novo 264K
Abomey 90.2K
Save 31.4K

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