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Population in Benin compared to San Marino: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Benin was 14,462,724 in 2024 vs 33,977 people in San Marino in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Benin's population is 15,100,397 people compared to 33,996 in San Marino.

Population statistics:

  • Benin's population is 444 times bigger than San Marino's.
  • Benin is ranked the 76th most populous country in the world, while San Marino is the 193rd.
  • The countries together account for 0.18% of the world: 0.18% for Benin vs 0.0004% for San Marino.
  • For the last 10 years, Benin has had an average growth rate of +2.77% per year vs +0.26% in San Marino.
  • Since 2005, the population of Benin has increased from 8.43M people to 15.1M (79.2% growth), while San Marino has grown from 29.8K to 34K (13.9% growth).
  • Benin is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 39.6M people, while San Marino's population already peaked in 2020 at 34.8K people and is projected to decrease to 31.5K people by 2100.

Benin vs San Marino: live population counter

Benin San Marino
Current population
15100397
33996
Population rank 76/197 193/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.0004%
One net population change
1.49 minutes
3.12 days
One birth every
1.1 minutes
1.93 days
One death every
4.23 minutes
1.3 days
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
1.41 weeks
Annual migration change -7,725 +37
Daily growth/decline +964 +0
Annual growth/decline +351,690 +117
Annual growth/decline rate +2.49% +0.35%
Population growth rate rank 28/197 144/197

Benin and San Marino: population history and growth rate by year chart

Benin
Population

Growth rate
San Marino
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Benin San Marino Benin San Marino
1960 2,517,286 15,428 - -
1961 2,559,223 15,799 1.67% 2.4%
1962 2,604,659 16,183 1.78% 2.43%
1963 2,652,908 16,580 1.85% 2.45%
1964 2,704,003 16,977 1.93% 2.39%
1965 2,757,936 17,305 1.99% 1.93%
1966 2,814,317 17,523 2.04% 1.26%
1967 2,872,997 17,688 2.09% 0.94%
1968 2,934,257 17,861 2.13% 0.98%
1969 2,998,222 18,026 2.18% 0.92%
1970 3,065,057 18,168 2.23% 0.79%
1971 3,134,767 18,419 2.27% 1.38%
1972 3,207,543 18,787 2.32% 2%
1973 3,283,496 18,992 2.37% 1.09%
1974 3,362,633 19,030 2.41% 0.2%
1975 3,445,407 19,046 2.46% 0.08%
1976 3,532,196 19,110 2.52% 0.34%
1977 3,623,202 20,017 2.58% 4.75%
1978 3,718,305 21,026 2.62% 5.04%
1979 3,818,528 21,320 2.7% 1.4%
1980 3,925,251 21,585 2.79% 1.24%
1981 4,038,307 21,840 2.88% 1.18%
1982 4,156,596 22,055 2.93% 0.98%
1983 4,278,978 22,229 2.94% 0.79%
1984 4,405,895 22,346 2.97% 0.53%
1985 4,538,012 22,485 3% 0.62%
1986 4,675,420 22,636 3.03% 0.67%
1987 4,818,486 22,686 3.06% 0.22%
1988 4,967,341 22,843 3.09% 0.69%
1989 5,121,657 23,154 3.11% 1.36%
1990 5,281,479 23,475 3.12% 1.39%
1991 5,446,932 23,797 3.13% 1.37%
1992 5,617,844 24,125 3.14% 1.38%
1993 5,872,706 24,472 4.54% 1.44%
1994 6,096,506 24,823 3.81% 1.43%
1995 6,226,773 25,158 2.14% 1.35%
1996 6,391,858 25,482 2.65% 1.29%
1997 6,583,365 25,800 3% 1.25%
1998 6,789,489 26,125 3.13% 1.26%
1999 7,002,818 26,459 3.14% 1.28%
2000 7,221,619 26,799 3.12% 1.29%
2001 7,445,596 27,143 3.1% 1.28%
2002 7,675,426 27,491 3.09% 1.28%
2003 7,913,070 27,843 3.1% 1.28%
2004 8,159,094 29,457 3.11% 5.8%
2005 8,426,144 29,836 3.27% 1.29%
2006 8,693,242 30,184 3.17% 1.17%
2007 8,953,969 31,211 3% 3.4%
2008 9,228,466 31,662 3.07% 1.45%
2009 9,509,423 33,066 3.04% 4.43%
2010 9,797,484 33,270 3.03% 0.62%
2011 10,093,623 32,620 3.02% -1.95%
2012 10,397,657 33,469 3.01% 2.6%
2013 10,708,834 33,041 2.99% -1.28%
2014 11,030,004 32,655 3% -1.17%
2015 11,360,681 32,897 3% 0.74%
2016 11,697,842 33,101 2.97% 0.62%
2017 12,039,780 33,825 2.92% 2.19%
2018 12,383,347 34,522 2.85% 2.06%
2019 12,726,755 34,663 2.77% 0.41%
2020 13,070,169 34,770 2.7% 0.31%
2021 13,413,417 34,252 2.63% -1.49%
2022 13,759,501 33,755 2.58% -1.45%
2023 14,111,034 33,860 2.55% 0.31%
2024 14,462,724 33,977 2.49% 0.35%
2025 14,814,463 33,969 2.43% -0.02%
2026 15,170,422 34,003 2.4% 0.1%
2027 15,529,420 34,033 2.37% 0.09%
2028 15,890,289 34,080 2.32% 0.14%
2029 16,253,927 34,113 2.29% 0.1%
2030 16,618,827 34,133 2.24% 0.06%
2031 16,985,939 34,147 2.21% 0.04%
2032 17,357,069 34,169 2.18% 0.06%
2033 17,731,448 34,188 2.16% 0.06%
2034 18,109,922 34,195 2.13% 0.02%
2035 18,492,634 34,222 2.11% 0.08%
2036 18,878,049 34,260 2.08% 0.11%
2037 19,264,504 34,293 2.05% 0.1%
2038 19,655,285 34,339 2.03% 0.14%
2039 20,049,973 34,368 2.01% 0.08%
2040 20,445,765 34,365 1.97% -0.009%
2041 20,843,268 34,364 1.94% -0.003%
2042 21,242,984 34,379 1.92% 0.04%
2043 21,643,647 34,388 1.89% 0.03%
2044 22,042,581 34,360 1.84% -0.08%
2045 22,443,653 34,318 1.82% -0.12%
2046 22,846,199 34,280 1.79% -0.11%
2047 23,245,147 34,238 1.75% -0.12%
2048 23,642,198 34,191 1.71% -0.14%
2049 24,038,614 34,135 1.68% -0.16%
2050 24,433,817 34,091 1.64% -0.13%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Benin increased by 2,934,537 people (a 34.8% growth), while San Marino gained 3,061 people (a 10.3% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Benin gained 3,739,716 (a 32.9% growth), while San Marino's population increased by 1,099 (a 3.34% growth).

Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2005 and is 76th in 2025. San Marino was ranked 193rd in 2005 and still ranked 193rd 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 San Marino will increase by 0.28% to 34,091 people and rank change from 193rd to 192nd.

Biggest cities by population

Benin
City Population
Cotonou 679K
Porto-Novo 264K
Abomey 90.2K
Save 31.4K
San Marino
City Population
Dogana 7K
San Marino 4.04K

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