The latest officially reported population of Benin was 14,462,724 in 2024 vs 6,587,202 people in Serbia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Benin's population is 15,100,397 people compared to 6,541,064 in Serbia.
Population statistics:
- Benin's population is 2.31 times bigger than Serbia's.
- Benin is ranked the 76th most populous country in the world, while Serbia is the 110th.
- The countries together account for 0.26% of the world: 0.18% for Benin vs 0.08% for Serbia.
- For the last 10 years, Benin has had an average growth rate of +2.77% per year vs -0.76% in Serbia.
- Since 2005, the population of Benin has increased from 8.43M people to 15.1M (79.2% growth), while Serbia has declined from 7.44M to 6.54M (12.1% decline).
- Benin is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 39.6M people, while Serbia's population already peaked in 1990 at 7.9M people and is projected to decrease to 3.62M people by 2100.
Benin vs Serbia: live population counter
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| Current population |
15100397
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6541064
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| Population rank | 76/197 | 110/197 |
| Percent of world population | 0.18% | 0.08% |
| One net population change |
1.49 minutes
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14.6 minutes
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| One birth every |
1.1 minutes
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8.63 minutes
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| One death every |
4.23 minutes
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5.4 minutes
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| One migration net change every |
1.13 hours
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1.08 hours
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| Annual migration change | -7,725 | -8,132 |
| Daily growth/decline | +964 | -99 |
| Annual growth/decline | +351,690 | -35,981 |
| Annual growth/decline rate | +2.49% | -0.54% |
| Population growth rate rank | 28/197 | 186/197 |
Benin and Serbia: population history and growth rate by year chart
| Year | Population | Growth rate | ||
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| 1960 | 2,517,286 | 6,638,992 | - | - |
| 1961 | 2,559,223 | 6,689,077 | 1.67% | 0.75% |
| 1962 | 2,604,659 | 6,740,264 | 1.78% | 0.77% |
| 1963 | 2,652,908 | 6,787,950 | 1.85% | 0.71% |
| 1964 | 2,704,003 | 6,832,855 | 1.93% | 0.66% |
| 1965 | 2,757,936 | 6,876,624 | 1.99% | 0.64% |
| 1966 | 2,814,317 | 6,927,969 | 2.04% | 0.75% |
| 1967 | 2,872,997 | 6,966,522 | 2.09% | 0.56% |
| 1968 | 2,934,257 | 7,007,586 | 2.13% | 0.59% |
| 1969 | 2,998,222 | 7,123,249 | 2.18% | 1.65% |
| 1970 | 3,065,057 | 7,164,993 | 2.23% | 0.59% |
| 1971 | 3,134,767 | 7,211,716 | 2.27% | 0.65% |
| 1972 | 3,207,543 | 7,252,012 | 2.32% | 0.56% |
| 1973 | 3,283,496 | 7,283,902 | 2.37% | 0.44% |
| 1974 | 3,362,633 | 7,326,043 | 2.41% | 0.58% |
| 1975 | 3,445,407 | 7,368,717 | 2.46% | 0.58% |
| 1976 | 3,532,196 | 7,418,973 | 2.52% | 0.68% |
| 1977 | 3,623,202 | 7,462,783 | 2.58% | 0.59% |
| 1978 | 3,718,305 | 7,504,017 | 2.62% | 0.55% |
| 1979 | 3,818,528 | 7,541,997 | 2.7% | 0.51% |
| 1980 | 3,925,251 | 7,709,544 | 2.79% | 2.22% |
| 1981 | 4,038,307 | 7,736,787 | 2.88% | 0.35% |
| 1982 | 4,156,596 | 7,763,335 | 2.93% | 0.34% |
| 1983 | 4,278,978 | 7,788,100 | 2.94% | 0.32% |
| 1984 | 4,405,895 | 7,813,549 | 2.97% | 0.33% |
| 1985 | 4,538,012 | 7,835,902 | 3% | 0.29% |
| 1986 | 4,675,420 | 7,853,824 | 3.03% | 0.23% |
| 1987 | 4,818,486 | 7,868,027 | 3.06% | 0.18% |
| 1988 | 4,967,341 | 7,884,218 | 3.09% | 0.21% |
| 1989 | 5,121,657 | 7,893,787 | 3.11% | 0.12% |
| 1990 | 5,281,479 | 7,897,937 | 3.12% | 0.05% |
| 1991 | 5,446,932 | 7,595,636 | 3.13% | -3.83% |
| 1992 | 5,617,844 | 7,604,063 | 3.14% | 0.11% |
| 1993 | 5,872,706 | 7,614,328 | 4.54% | 0.13% |
| 1994 | 6,096,506 | 7,622,711 | 3.81% | 0.11% |
| 1995 | 6,226,773 | 7,628,264 | 2.14% | 0.07% |
| 1996 | 6,391,858 | 7,622,185 | 2.65% | -0.08% |
| 1997 | 6,583,365 | 7,598,538 | 3% | -0.31% |
| 1998 | 6,789,489 | 7,567,745 | 3.13% | -0.41% |
| 1999 | 7,002,818 | 7,540,401 | 3.14% | -0.36% |
| 2000 | 7,221,619 | 7,516,346 | 3.12% | -0.32% |
| 2001 | 7,445,596 | 7,503,433 | 3.1% | -0.17% |
| 2002 | 7,675,426 | 7,500,031 | 3.09% | -0.05% |
| 2003 | 7,913,070 | 7,480,591 | 3.1% | -0.26% |
| 2004 | 8,159,094 | 7,463,157 | 3.11% | -0.23% |
| 2005 | 8,426,144 | 7,440,769 | 3.27% | -0.3% |
| 2006 | 8,693,242 | 7,411,569 | 3.17% | -0.39% |
| 2007 | 8,953,969 | 7,381,579 | 3% | -0.4% |
| 2008 | 9,228,466 | 7,350,222 | 3.07% | -0.42% |
| 2009 | 9,509,423 | 7,320,807 | 3.04% | -0.4% |
| 2010 | 9,797,484 | 7,291,436 | 3.03% | -0.4% |
| 2011 | 10,093,623 | 7,236,519 | 3.02% | -0.75% |
| 2012 | 10,397,657 | 7,201,497 | 3.01% | -0.48% |
| 2013 | 10,708,834 | 7,166,553 | 2.99% | -0.49% |
| 2014 | 11,030,004 | 7,131,787 | 3% | -0.49% |
| 2015 | 11,360,681 | 7,095,383 | 3% | -0.51% |
| 2016 | 11,697,842 | 7,058,322 | 2.97% | -0.52% |
| 2017 | 12,039,780 | 7,020,858 | 2.92% | -0.53% |
| 2018 | 12,383,347 | 6,982,604 | 2.85% | -0.54% |
| 2019 | 12,726,755 | 6,945,235 | 2.77% | -0.54% |
| 2020 | 13,070,169 | 6,899,126 | 2.7% | -0.66% |
| 2021 | 13,413,417 | 6,834,326 | 2.63% | -0.94% |
| 2022 | 13,759,501 | 6,664,449 | 2.58% | -2.49% |
| 2023 | 14,111,034 | 6,623,183 | 2.55% | -0.62% |
| 2024 | 14,462,724 | 6,587,202 | 2.49% | -0.54% |
| 2025 | 14,814,463 | 6,541,064 | 2.43% | -0.7% |
| 2026 | 15,170,422 | 6,495,033 | 2.4% | -0.7% |
| 2027 | 15,529,420 | 6,451,587 | 2.37% | -0.67% |
| 2028 | 15,890,289 | 6,407,523 | 2.32% | -0.68% |
| 2029 | 16,253,927 | 6,363,135 | 2.29% | -0.69% |
| 2030 | 16,618,827 | 6,318,273 | 2.24% | -0.71% |
| 2031 | 16,985,939 | 6,272,974 | 2.21% | -0.72% |
| 2032 | 17,357,069 | 6,227,395 | 2.18% | -0.73% |
| 2033 | 17,731,448 | 6,181,396 | 2.16% | -0.74% |
| 2034 | 18,109,922 | 6,135,163 | 2.13% | -0.75% |
| 2035 | 18,492,634 | 6,088,832 | 2.11% | -0.76% |
| 2036 | 18,878,049 | 6,042,364 | 2.08% | -0.76% |
| 2037 | 19,264,504 | 5,995,710 | 2.05% | -0.77% |
| 2038 | 19,655,285 | 5,948,872 | 2.03% | -0.78% |
| 2039 | 20,049,973 | 5,901,891 | 2.01% | -0.79% |
| 2040 | 20,445,765 | 5,855,009 | 1.97% | -0.79% |
| 2041 | 20,843,268 | 5,808,317 | 1.94% | -0.8% |
| 2042 | 21,242,984 | 5,761,829 | 1.92% | -0.8% |
| 2043 | 21,643,647 | 5,715,931 | 1.89% | -0.8% |
| 2044 | 22,042,581 | 5,670,687 | 1.84% | -0.79% |
| 2045 | 22,443,653 | 5,625,991 | 1.82% | -0.79% |
| 2046 | 22,846,199 | 5,581,867 | 1.79% | -0.78% |
| 2047 | 23,245,147 | 5,538,323 | 1.75% | -0.78% |
| 2048 | 23,642,198 | 5,495,303 | 1.71% | -0.78% |
| 2049 | 24,038,614 | 5,452,676 | 1.68% | -0.78% |
| 2050 | 24,433,817 | 5,410,466 | 1.64% | -0.77% |
From 2005 to 2015, the population of Benin increased by 2,934,537 people (a 34.8% growth), while Serbia lost 345,386 people (a 4.64% decline).
For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Benin gained 3,739,716 (a 32.9% growth), while Serbia's population decreased by -554,319 (a 7.81% decline).
Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2005 and is 76th in 2025. Serbia was ranked 96th in 2005 and ranked 110th 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 Serbia will decrease by 17.3% to 5,410,466 people and rank change from 110th to 125th.
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Population differences between Benin and Serbia
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| Life expectancy | 61.1 years | 77.1 years |
| Average age | 23.4 years | 44 years |
| Median age | 19 years | 45.1 years |
| Male:Female ratio | 50.1:49.9 | 47.4:52.6 |
| Fertility rate | 4.56 births per woman | 1.61 births per woman |
| Population density | 332 ppl/mi² | 202.9 ppl/mi² |
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