The latest officially reported population of Benin was 14,462,724 in 2024 vs 2,839,175 people in Jamaica in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Benin's population is 15,100,397 people compared to 2,837,071 in Jamaica.
Population statistics:
- Benin's population is 5.32 times bigger than Jamaica's.
- Benin is ranked the 76th most populous country in the world, while Jamaica is the 140th.
- The countries together account for 0.22% of the world: 0.18% for Benin vs 0.03% for Jamaica.
- For the last 10 years, Benin has had an average growth rate of +2.77% per year vs +0.18% in Jamaica.
- Since 2005, the population of Benin has increased from 8.43M people to 15.1M (79.2% growth), while Jamaica has grown from 2.69M to 2.84M (5.58% growth).
- Benin is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 39.6M people, while Jamaica's population already peaked in 2023 at 2.84M people and is projected to decrease to 1.07M people by 2100.
Benin vs Jamaica: live population counter
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| Current population |
15100397
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2837071
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| Population rank | 76/197 | 140/197 |
| Percent of world population | 0.18% | 0.03% |
| One net population change |
1.49 minutes
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14.3 hours
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| One birth every |
1.1 minutes
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15.9 minutes
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| One death every |
4.23 minutes
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22.9 minutes
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| One migration net change every |
1.13 hours
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50 minutes
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| Annual migration change | -7,725 | -10,506 |
| Daily growth/decline | +964 | -2 |
| Annual growth/decline | +351,690 | -611 |
| Annual growth/decline rate | +2.49% | -0.02% |
| Population growth rate rank | 28/197 | 167/197 |
Benin and Jamaica: population history and growth rate by year chart
| Year | Population | Growth rate | ||
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| 1960 | 2,517,286 | 1,650,005 | - | - |
| 1961 | 2,559,223 | 1,673,261 | 1.67% | 1.41% |
| 1962 | 2,604,659 | 1,696,932 | 1.78% | 1.41% |
| 1963 | 2,652,908 | 1,721,099 | 1.85% | 1.42% |
| 1964 | 2,704,003 | 1,745,568 | 1.93% | 1.42% |
| 1965 | 2,757,936 | 1,769,192 | 1.99% | 1.35% |
| 1966 | 2,814,317 | 1,791,475 | 2.04% | 1.26% |
| 1967 | 2,872,997 | 1,812,865 | 2.09% | 1.19% |
| 1968 | 2,934,257 | 1,833,765 | 2.13% | 1.15% |
| 1969 | 2,998,222 | 1,855,127 | 2.18% | 1.16% |
| 1970 | 3,065,057 | 1,878,196 | 2.23% | 1.24% |
| 1971 | 3,134,767 | 1,903,728 | 2.27% | 1.36% |
| 1972 | 3,207,543 | 1,931,542 | 2.32% | 1.46% |
| 1973 | 3,283,496 | 1,961,219 | 2.37% | 1.54% |
| 1974 | 3,362,633 | 1,990,906 | 2.41% | 1.51% |
| 1975 | 3,445,407 | 2,018,981 | 2.46% | 1.41% |
| 1976 | 3,532,196 | 2,045,578 | 2.52% | 1.32% |
| 1977 | 3,623,202 | 2,070,657 | 2.58% | 1.23% |
| 1978 | 3,718,305 | 2,094,836 | 2.62% | 1.17% |
| 1979 | 3,818,528 | 2,119,486 | 2.7% | 1.18% |
| 1980 | 3,925,251 | 2,145,658 | 2.79% | 1.23% |
| 1981 | 4,038,307 | 2,173,818 | 2.88% | 1.31% |
| 1982 | 4,156,596 | 2,203,889 | 2.93% | 1.38% |
| 1983 | 4,278,978 | 2,234,832 | 2.94% | 1.4% |
| 1984 | 4,405,895 | 2,264,562 | 2.97% | 1.33% |
| 1985 | 4,538,012 | 2,290,656 | 3% | 1.15% |
| 1986 | 4,675,420 | 2,312,125 | 3.03% | 0.94% |
| 1987 | 4,818,486 | 2,329,813 | 3.06% | 0.77% |
| 1988 | 4,967,341 | 2,345,777 | 3.09% | 0.69% |
| 1989 | 5,121,657 | 2,361,916 | 3.11% | 0.69% |
| 1990 | 5,281,479 | 2,379,877 | 3.12% | 0.76% |
| 1991 | 5,446,932 | 2,400,869 | 3.13% | 0.88% |
| 1992 | 5,617,844 | 2,424,701 | 3.14% | 0.99% |
| 1993 | 5,872,706 | 2,449,916 | 4.54% | 1.04% |
| 1994 | 6,096,506 | 2,475,220 | 3.81% | 1.03% |
| 1995 | 6,226,773 | 2,500,151 | 2.14% | 1.01% |
| 1996 | 6,391,858 | 2,524,463 | 2.65% | 0.97% |
| 1997 | 6,583,365 | 2,547,848 | 3% | 0.93% |
| 1998 | 6,789,489 | 2,569,736 | 3.13% | 0.86% |
| 1999 | 7,002,818 | 2,589,795 | 3.14% | 0.78% |
| 2000 | 7,221,619 | 2,607,826 | 3.12% | 0.7% |
| 2001 | 7,445,596 | 2,624,403 | 3.1% | 0.64% |
| 2002 | 7,675,426 | 2,640,572 | 3.09% | 0.62% |
| 2003 | 7,913,070 | 2,656,623 | 3.1% | 0.61% |
| 2004 | 8,159,094 | 2,672,225 | 3.11% | 0.59% |
| 2005 | 8,426,144 | 2,687,066 | 3.27% | 0.56% |
| 2006 | 8,693,242 | 2,700,968 | 3.17% | 0.52% |
| 2007 | 8,953,969 | 2,713,800 | 3% | 0.48% |
| 2008 | 9,228,466 | 2,725,635 | 3.07% | 0.44% |
| 2009 | 9,509,423 | 2,736,995 | 3.04% | 0.42% |
| 2010 | 9,797,484 | 2,748,568 | 3.03% | 0.42% |
| 2011 | 10,093,623 | 2,760,494 | 3.02% | 0.43% |
| 2012 | 10,397,657 | 2,772,430 | 3.01% | 0.43% |
| 2013 | 10,708,834 | 2,783,687 | 2.99% | 0.41% |
| 2014 | 11,030,004 | 2,793,749 | 3% | 0.36% |
| 2015 | 11,360,681 | 2,802,534 | 3% | 0.31% |
| 2016 | 11,697,842 | 2,809,915 | 2.97% | 0.26% |
| 2017 | 12,039,780 | 2,815,764 | 2.92% | 0.21% |
| 2018 | 12,383,347 | 2,820,097 | 2.85% | 0.15% |
| 2019 | 12,726,755 | 2,823,271 | 2.77% | 0.11% |
| 2020 | 13,070,169 | 2,830,739 | 2.7% | 0.26% |
| 2021 | 13,413,417 | 2,837,682 | 2.63% | 0.25% |
| 2022 | 13,759,501 | 2,839,144 | 2.58% | 0.05% |
| 2023 | 14,111,034 | 2,839,786 | 2.55% | 0.02% |
| 2024 | 14,462,724 | 2,839,175 | 2.49% | -0.02% |
| 2025 | 14,814,463 | 2,837,071 | 2.43% | -0.07% |
| 2026 | 15,170,422 | 2,833,401 | 2.4% | -0.13% |
| 2027 | 15,529,420 | 2,828,530 | 2.37% | -0.17% |
| 2028 | 15,890,289 | 2,822,861 | 2.32% | -0.2% |
| 2029 | 16,253,927 | 2,816,391 | 2.29% | -0.23% |
| 2030 | 16,618,827 | 2,808,946 | 2.24% | -0.26% |
| 2031 | 16,985,939 | 2,800,607 | 2.21% | -0.3% |
| 2032 | 17,357,069 | 2,791,130 | 2.18% | -0.34% |
| 2033 | 17,731,448 | 2,780,468 | 2.16% | -0.38% |
| 2034 | 18,109,922 | 2,768,714 | 2.13% | -0.42% |
| 2035 | 18,492,634 | 2,755,929 | 2.11% | -0.46% |
| 2036 | 18,878,049 | 2,742,071 | 2.08% | -0.5% |
| 2037 | 19,264,504 | 2,726,892 | 2.05% | -0.55% |
| 2038 | 19,655,285 | 2,710,812 | 2.03% | -0.59% |
| 2039 | 20,049,973 | 2,693,901 | 2.01% | -0.62% |
| 2040 | 20,445,765 | 2,676,087 | 1.97% | -0.66% |
| 2041 | 20,843,268 | 2,657,558 | 1.94% | -0.69% |
| 2042 | 21,242,984 | 2,638,085 | 1.92% | -0.73% |
| 2043 | 21,643,647 | 2,617,576 | 1.89% | -0.78% |
| 2044 | 22,042,581 | 2,596,160 | 1.84% | -0.82% |
| 2045 | 22,443,653 | 2,574,074 | 1.82% | -0.85% |
| 2046 | 22,846,199 | 2,551,347 | 1.79% | -0.88% |
| 2047 | 23,245,147 | 2,528,004 | 1.75% | -0.91% |
| 2048 | 23,642,198 | 2,504,191 | 1.71% | -0.94% |
| 2049 | 24,038,614 | 2,479,744 | 1.68% | -0.98% |
| 2050 | 24,433,817 | 2,454,935 | 1.64% | -1% |
From 2005 to 2015, the population of Benin increased by 2,934,537 people (a 34.8% growth), while Jamaica gained 115,468 people (a 4.3% growth).
For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Benin gained 3,739,716 (a 32.9% growth), while Jamaica's population increased by 34,537 (a 1.23% growth).
Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2005 and is 76th in 2025. Jamaica was ranked 135th in 2005 and ranked 140th 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 Jamaica will decrease by 13.5% to 2,454,935 people and rank change from 140th to 144th.
Biggest cities by population
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| City | Population |
| Cotonou | 679K |
| Porto-Novo | 264K |
| Abomey | 90.2K |
| Save | 31.4K |
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| City | Population |
| Kingston | 580K |
| Spanish Town | 131K |
| Montego Bay | 124K |
| Half Way Tree | 96.5K |
| May Pen | 61.5K |
| Mandeville | 48.3K |
| Old Harbour | 28.7K |
| Linstead | 22.8K |
| Savanna-la-Mar | 22.6K |
| Port Antonio | 14.8K |
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Population differences between Benin and Jamaica
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| Life expectancy | 61.1 years | 71.7 years |
| Average age | 23.4 years | 34.9 years |
| Median age | 19 years | 33.3 years |
| Male:Female ratio | 50.1:49.9 | 49.4:50.6 |
| Fertility rate | 4.56 births per woman | 1.36 births per woman |
| Population density | 332 ppl/mi² | 679 ppl/mi² |
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