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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Benin was 14,462,724 in 2024 vs 34,217,848 people in Peru in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Benin's population is 15,100,397 people compared to 34,854,181 in Peru.

Population statistics:

  • Peru's population is 2.31 times bigger than Benin's.
  • Benin is ranked the 76th most populous country in the world, while Peru is the 48th.
  • The countries together account for 0.6% of the world: 0.18% for Benin vs 0.42% for Peru.
  • For the last 10 years, Benin has had an average growth rate of +2.77% per year vs +1.26% in Peru.
  • Since 2005, the population of Benin has increased from 8.43M people to 15.1M (79.2% growth), while Peru has grown from 28.1M to 34.9M (24% growth).
  • Benin is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 39.6M people compared to the peak of 41.7M people in 2066 for Peru.

Benin vs Peru: live population counter

Benin Peru
Current population
15100397
34854181
Population rank 76/197 48/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.42%
One net population change
1.49 minutes
1.41 minutes
One birth every
1.1 minutes
58.4 seconds
One death every
4.23 minutes
2.83 minutes
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
28.6 minutes
Annual migration change -7,725 +18,406
Daily growth/decline +964 +1,020
Annual growth/decline +351,690 +372,231
Annual growth/decline rate +2.49% +1.1%
Population growth rate rank 28/197 97/197

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

Benin
Population

Growth rate
Peru
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Benin Peru Benin Peru
1960 2,517,286 10,174,127 - -
1961 2,559,223 10,475,123 1.67% 2.96%
1962 2,604,659 10,784,612 1.78% 2.95%
1963 2,652,908 11,102,099 1.85% 2.94%
1964 2,704,003 11,427,978 1.93% 2.94%
1965 2,757,936 11,761,085 1.99% 2.91%
1966 2,814,317 12,101,297 2.04% 2.89%
1967 2,872,997 12,448,814 2.09% 2.87%
1968 2,934,257 12,803,993 2.13% 2.85%
1969 2,998,222 13,166,767 2.18% 2.83%
1970 3,065,057 13,501,237 2.23% 2.54%
1971 3,134,767 13,838,067 2.27% 2.49%
1972 3,207,543 14,210,147 2.32% 2.69%
1973 3,283,496 14,582,867 2.37% 2.62%
1974 3,362,633 14,956,552 2.41% 2.56%
1975 3,445,407 15,333,957 2.46% 2.52%
1976 3,532,196 15,716,809 2.52% 2.5%
1977 3,623,202 16,109,806 2.58% 2.5%
1978 3,718,305 16,516,059 2.62% 2.52%
1979 3,818,528 16,933,139 2.7% 2.53%
1980 3,925,251 17,360,949 2.79% 2.53%
1981 4,038,307 17,798,805 2.88% 2.52%
1982 4,156,596 18,246,503 2.93% 2.52%
1983 4,278,978 18,705,957 2.94% 2.52%
1984 4,405,895 19,174,716 2.97% 2.51%
1985 4,538,012 19,648,204 3% 2.47%
1986 4,675,420 20,117,122 3.03% 2.39%
1987 4,818,486 20,582,320 3.06% 2.31%
1988 4,967,341 21,054,702 3.09% 2.3%
1989 5,121,657 21,532,589 3.11% 2.27%
1990 5,281,479 22,014,771 3.12% 2.24%
1991 5,446,932 22,483,775 3.13% 2.13%
1992 5,617,844 22,946,340 3.14% 2.06%
1993 5,872,706 23,413,783 4.54% 2.04%
1994 6,096,506 23,881,493 3.81% 2%
1995 6,226,773 24,348,919 2.14% 1.96%
1996 6,391,858 24,811,171 2.65% 1.9%
1997 6,583,365 25,274,147 3% 1.87%
1998 6,789,489 25,738,095 3.13% 1.84%
1999 7,002,818 26,186,504 3.14% 1.74%
2000 7,221,619 26,598,331 3.12% 1.57%
2001 7,445,596 26,964,601 3.1% 1.38%
2002 7,675,426 27,288,217 3.09% 1.2%
2003 7,913,070 27,580,490 3.1% 1.07%
2004 8,159,094 27,852,190 3.11% 0.99%
2005 8,426,144 28,101,180 3.27% 0.89%
2006 8,693,242 28,324,491 3.17% 0.79%
2007 8,953,969 28,530,699 3% 0.73%
2008 9,228,466 28,719,041 3.07% 0.66%
2009 9,509,423 28,896,811 3.04% 0.62%
2010 9,797,484 29,086,019 3.03% 0.65%
2011 10,093,623 29,304,086 3.02% 0.75%
2012 10,397,657 29,550,366 3.01% 0.84%
2013 10,708,834 29,817,919 2.99% 0.91%
2014 11,030,004 30,115,826 3% 1%
2015 11,360,681 30,457,600 3% 1.13%
2016 11,697,842 30,866,494 2.97% 1.34%
2017 12,039,780 31,324,637 2.92% 1.48%
2018 12,383,347 31,897,584 2.85% 1.83%
2019 12,726,755 32,449,303 2.77% 1.73%
2020 13,070,169 32,838,579 2.7% 1.2%
2021 13,413,417 33,155,882 2.63% 0.97%
2022 13,759,501 33,475,438 2.58% 0.96%
2023 14,111,034 33,845,617 2.55% 1.11%
2024 14,462,724 34,217,848 2.49% 1.1%
2025 14,814,463 34,576,670 2.43% 1.05%
2026 15,170,422 34,922,144 2.4% 1%
2027 15,529,420 35,255,683 2.37% 0.96%
2028 15,890,289 35,578,281 2.32% 0.92%
2029 16,253,927 35,890,705 2.29% 0.88%
2030 16,618,827 36,193,882 2.24% 0.84%
2031 16,985,939 36,488,437 2.21% 0.81%
2032 17,357,069 36,774,937 2.18% 0.79%
2033 17,731,448 37,054,380 2.16% 0.76%
2034 18,109,922 37,326,798 2.13% 0.74%
2035 18,492,634 37,591,420 2.11% 0.71%
2036 18,878,049 37,848,147 2.08% 0.68%
2037 19,264,504 38,096,898 2.05% 0.66%
2038 19,655,285 38,337,328 2.03% 0.63%
2039 20,049,973 38,569,891 2.01% 0.61%
2040 20,445,765 38,794,647 1.97% 0.58%
2041 20,843,268 39,011,537 1.94% 0.56%
2042 21,242,984 39,220,371 1.92% 0.54%
2043 21,643,647 39,420,647 1.89% 0.51%
2044 22,042,581 39,612,847 1.84% 0.49%
2045 22,443,653 39,796,723 1.82% 0.46%
2046 22,846,199 39,971,719 1.79% 0.44%
2047 23,245,147 40,137,869 1.75% 0.42%
2048 23,642,198 40,294,857 1.71% 0.39%
2049 24,038,614 40,443,273 1.68% 0.37%
2050 24,433,817 40,583,875 1.64% 0.35%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Benin increased by 2,934,537 people (a 34.8% growth), while Peru gained 2,356,420 people (a 8.39% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Benin gained 3,739,716 (a 32.9% growth), while Peru's population increased by 4,396,581 (a 14.4% growth).

Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2005 and is 76th in 2025. Peru was ranked 39th in 2005 and ranked 48th 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 Peru will increase by 16.4% to 40,583,875 people and rank change from 48th to 51st.

Biggest cities by population

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

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