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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Benin was 14,462,724 in 2024 vs 36,554,707 people in Poland in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Benin's population is 15,100,397 people compared to 36,176,920 in Poland.

Population statistics:

  • Poland's population is 2.4 times bigger than Benin's.
  • Benin is ranked the 76th most populous country in the world, while Poland is the 46th.
  • The countries together account for 0.62% of the world: 0.18% for Benin vs 0.44% for Poland.
  • For the last 10 years, Benin has had an average growth rate of +2.77% per year vs -0.36% in Poland.
  • Since 2005, the population of Benin has increased from 8.43M people to 15.1M (79.2% growth), while Poland has declined from 38.2M to 36.2M (5.21% decline).
  • Benin is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 39.6M people, while Poland's population already peaked in 1998 at 38.7M people and is projected to decrease to 18.3M people by 2100.

Benin vs Poland: live population counter

Benin Poland
Current population
15100397
36176920
Population rank 76/197 46/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.44%
One net population change
1.49 minutes
3.96 minutes
One birth every
1.1 minutes
1.94 minutes
One death every
4.23 minutes
1.29 minutes
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
2.21 minutes
Annual migration change -7,725 -238,062
Daily growth/decline +964 -363
Annual growth/decline +351,690 -132,646
Annual growth/decline rate +2.49% -0.36%
Population growth rate rank 28/197 179/197

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

Benin
Population

Growth rate
Poland
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Benin Poland Benin Poland
1960 2,517,286 29,637,450 - -
1961 2,559,223 29,964,000 1.67% 1.1%
1962 2,604,659 30,308,500 1.78% 1.15%
1963 2,652,908 30,712,000 1.85% 1.33%
1964 2,704,003 31,139,450 1.93% 1.39%
1965 2,757,936 31,444,950 1.99% 0.98%
1966 2,814,317 31,681,000 2.04% 0.75%
1967 2,872,997 31,987,155 2.09% 0.97%
1968 2,934,257 32,294,655 2.13% 0.96%
1969 2,998,222 32,548,300 2.18% 0.79%
1970 3,065,057 32,664,300 2.23% 0.36%
1971 3,134,767 32,783,500 2.27% 0.36%
1972 3,207,543 33,055,650 2.32% 0.83%
1973 3,283,496 33,357,200 2.37% 0.91%
1974 3,362,633 33,678,899 2.41% 0.96%
1975 3,445,407 34,015,199 2.46% 1%
1976 3,532,196 34,356,300 2.52% 1%
1977 3,623,202 34,689,050 2.58% 0.97%
1978 3,718,305 34,965,600 2.62% 0.8%
1979 3,818,528 35,247,217 2.7% 0.81%
1980 3,925,251 35,574,150 2.79% 0.93%
1981 4,038,307 35,898,587 2.88% 0.91%
1982 4,156,596 36,230,481 2.93% 0.92%
1983 4,278,978 36,571,808 2.94% 0.94%
1984 4,405,895 36,904,134 2.97% 0.91%
1985 4,538,012 37,201,885 3% 0.81%
1986 4,675,420 37,456,119 3.03% 0.68%
1987 4,818,486 37,668,045 3.06% 0.57%
1988 4,967,341 37,824,487 3.09% 0.42%
1989 5,121,657 37,961,529 3.11% 0.36%
1990 5,281,479 38,110,782 3.12% 0.39%
1991 5,446,932 38,246,193 3.13% 0.36%
1992 5,617,844 38,363,667 3.14% 0.31%
1993 5,872,706 38,461,408 4.54% 0.25%
1994 6,096,506 38,542,652 3.81% 0.21%
1995 6,226,773 38,594,998 2.14% 0.14%
1996 6,391,858 38,624,370 2.65% 0.08%
1997 6,583,365 38,649,660 3% 0.07%
1998 6,789,489 38,663,481 3.13% 0.04%
1999 7,002,818 38,660,271 3.14% -0.008%
2000 7,221,619 38,258,629 3.12% -1.04%
2001 7,445,596 38,248,076 3.1% -0.03%
2002 7,675,426 38,230,364 3.09% -0.05%
2003 7,913,070 38,204,570 3.1% -0.07%
2004 8,159,094 38,182,222 3.11% -0.06%
2005 8,426,144 38,165,445 3.27% -0.04%
2006 8,693,242 38,141,267 3.17% -0.06%
2007 8,953,969 38,120,560 3% -0.05%
2008 9,228,466 38,125,759 3.07% 0.01%
2009 9,509,423 38,151,603 3.04% 0.07%
2010 9,797,484 38,042,794 3.03% -0.29%
2011 10,093,623 38,063,255 3.02% 0.05%
2012 10,397,657 38,063,164 3.01% -0%
2013 10,708,834 38,040,196 2.99% -0.06%
2014 11,030,004 38,011,735 3% -0.07%
2015 11,360,681 37,986,412 3% -0.07%
2016 11,697,842 37,970,087 2.97% -0.04%
2017 12,039,780 37,974,826 2.92% 0.01%
2018 12,383,347 37,974,750 2.85% -0%
2019 12,726,755 37,965,475 2.77% -0.02%
2020 13,070,169 37,515,748 2.7% -1.18%
2021 13,413,417 36,981,559 2.63% -1.42%
2022 13,759,501 36,821,749 2.58% -0.43%
2023 14,111,034 36,687,353 2.55% -0.36%
2024 14,462,724 36,554,707 2.49% -0.36%
2025 14,814,463 36,176,920 2.43% -1.03%
2026 15,170,422 35,894,534 2.4% -0.78%
2027 15,529,420 35,753,988 2.37% -0.39%
2028 15,890,289 35,605,295 2.32% -0.42%
2029 16,253,927 35,447,860 2.29% -0.44%
2030 16,618,827 35,283,068 2.24% -0.46%
2031 16,985,939 35,111,838 2.21% -0.49%
2032 17,357,069 34,934,626 2.18% -0.5%
2033 17,731,448 34,753,118 2.16% -0.52%
2034 18,109,922 34,567,292 2.13% -0.53%
2035 18,492,634 34,377,478 2.11% -0.55%
2036 18,878,049 34,183,187 2.08% -0.57%
2037 19,264,504 33,984,777 2.05% -0.58%
2038 19,655,285 33,782,992 2.03% -0.59%
2039 20,049,973 33,577,269 2.01% -0.61%
2040 20,445,765 33,368,049 1.97% -0.62%
2041 20,843,268 33,156,329 1.94% -0.63%
2042 21,242,984 32,941,367 1.92% -0.65%
2043 21,643,647 32,722,775 1.89% -0.66%
2044 22,042,581 32,501,991 1.84% -0.67%
2045 22,443,653 32,278,695 1.82% -0.69%
2046 22,846,199 32,052,771 1.79% -0.7%
2047 23,245,147 31,824,481 1.75% -0.71%
2048 23,642,198 31,593,911 1.71% -0.72%
2049 24,038,614 31,360,713 1.68% -0.74%
2050 24,433,817 31,124,396 1.64% -0.75%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Benin increased by 2,934,537 people (a 34.8% growth), while Poland lost 179,033 people (a 0.47% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Benin gained 3,739,716 (a 32.9% growth), while Poland's population decreased by -1,809,492 (a 4.76% decline).

Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2005 and is 76th in 2025. Poland was ranked 32nd in 2005 and ranked 46th 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 Poland will decrease by 14% to 31,124,396 people and rank change from 46th to 61st.

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