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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Benin was 14,462,724 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Benin's population is 15,100,397 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 4.74 times bigger than Benin's.
  • Benin is ranked the 76th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 1.05% of the world: 0.18% for Benin vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Benin has had an average growth rate of +2.77% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Benin has increased from 8.43M people to 15.1M (79.2% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Benin is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 39.6M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Benin vs Thailand: live population counter

Benin Thailand
Current population
15100397
71619867
Population rank 76/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.87%
One net population change
1.49 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
1.1 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
4.23 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -7,725 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +964 -94
Annual growth/decline +351,690 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +2.49% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 28/197 170/197

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

Benin
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Benin Thailand Benin Thailand
1960 2,517,286 26,851,747 - -
1961 2,559,223 27,650,334 1.67% 2.97%
1962 2,604,659 28,481,040 1.78% 3%
1963 2,652,908 29,342,322 1.85% 3.02%
1964 2,704,003 30,232,141 1.93% 3.03%
1965 2,757,936 31,149,337 1.99% 3.03%
1966 2,814,317 32,086,071 2.04% 3.01%
1967 2,872,997 33,037,801 2.09% 2.97%
1968 2,934,257 34,002,560 2.13% 2.92%
1969 2,998,222 34,973,782 2.18% 2.86%
1970 3,065,057 35,954,408 2.23% 2.8%
1971 3,134,767 36,937,387 2.27% 2.73%
1972 3,207,543 37,933,929 2.32% 2.7%
1973 3,283,496 38,947,787 2.37% 2.67%
1974 3,362,633 39,952,891 2.41% 2.58%
1975 3,445,407 40,940,005 2.46% 2.47%
1976 3,532,196 41,896,504 2.52% 2.34%
1977 3,623,202 42,843,974 2.58% 2.26%
1978 3,718,305 43,788,976 2.62% 2.21%
1979 3,818,528 44,718,434 2.7% 2.12%
1980 3,925,251 45,650,022 2.79% 2.08%
1981 4,038,307 46,575,855 2.88% 2.03%
1982 4,156,596 47,494,577 2.93% 1.97%
1983 4,278,978 48,423,309 2.94% 1.96%
1984 4,405,895 49,351,708 2.97% 1.92%
1985 4,538,012 50,270,753 3% 1.86%
1986 4,675,420 51,177,834 3.03% 1.8%
1987 4,818,486 52,074,105 3.06% 1.75%
1988 4,967,341 52,969,595 3.09% 1.72%
1989 5,121,657 53,848,956 3.11% 1.66%
1990 5,281,479 54,738,329 3.12% 1.65%
1991 5,446,932 55,637,434 3.13% 1.64%
1992 5,617,844 56,528,834 3.14% 1.6%
1993 5,872,706 57,408,198 4.54% 1.56%
1994 6,096,506 58,260,854 3.81% 1.49%
1995 6,226,773 59,098,232 2.14% 1.44%
1996 6,391,858 59,920,064 2.65% 1.39%
1997 6,583,365 60,724,584 3% 1.34%
1998 6,789,489 61,522,630 3.13% 1.31%
1999 7,002,818 62,299,043 3.14% 1.26%
2000 7,221,619 63,007,815 3.12% 1.14%
2001 7,445,596 63,651,141 3.1% 1.02%
2002 7,675,426 64,266,437 3.09% 0.97%
2003 7,913,070 64,868,166 3.1% 0.94%
2004 8,159,094 65,452,047 3.11% 0.9%
2005 8,426,144 66,017,420 3.27% 0.86%
2006 8,693,242 66,567,687 3.17% 0.83%
2007 8,953,969 67,102,394 3% 0.8%
2008 9,228,466 67,619,830 3.07% 0.77%
2009 9,509,423 68,121,080 3.04% 0.74%
2010 9,797,484 68,579,447 3.03% 0.67%
2011 10,093,623 69,007,208 3.02% 0.62%
2012 10,397,657 69,436,098 3.01% 0.62%
2013 10,708,834 69,845,114 2.99% 0.59%
2014 11,030,004 70,216,367 3% 0.53%
2015 11,360,681 70,540,795 3% 0.46%
2016 11,697,842 70,859,841 2.97% 0.45%
2017 12,039,780 71,160,187 2.92% 0.42%
2018 12,383,347 71,376,079 2.85% 0.3%
2019 12,726,755 71,522,271 2.77% 0.2%
2020 13,070,169 71,641,484 2.7% 0.17%
2021 13,413,417 71,727,332 2.63% 0.12%
2022 13,759,501 71,735,329 2.58% 0.01%
2023 14,111,034 71,702,435 2.55% -0.05%
2024 14,462,724 71,668,011 2.49% -0.05%
2025 14,814,463 71,619,867 2.43% -0.07%
2026 15,170,422 71,559,621 2.4% -0.08%
2027 15,529,420 71,488,156 2.37% -0.1%
2028 15,890,289 71,406,996 2.32% -0.11%
2029 16,253,927 71,316,195 2.29% -0.13%
2030 16,618,827 71,215,017 2.24% -0.14%
2031 16,985,939 71,104,025 2.21% -0.16%
2032 17,357,069 70,982,286 2.18% -0.17%
2033 17,731,448 70,847,947 2.16% -0.19%
2034 18,109,922 70,701,651 2.13% -0.21%
2035 18,492,634 70,540,884 2.11% -0.23%
2036 18,878,049 70,366,496 2.08% -0.25%
2037 19,264,504 70,180,031 2.05% -0.26%
2038 19,655,285 69,979,034 2.03% -0.29%
2039 20,049,973 69,763,928 2.01% -0.31%
2040 20,445,765 69,535,003 1.97% -0.33%
2041 20,843,268 69,288,477 1.94% -0.35%
2042 21,242,984 69,025,348 1.92% -0.38%
2043 21,643,647 68,748,075 1.89% -0.4%
2044 22,042,581 68,456,533 1.84% -0.42%
2045 22,443,653 68,150,148 1.82% -0.45%
2046 22,846,199 67,827,309 1.79% -0.47%
2047 23,245,147 67,489,358 1.75% -0.5%
2048 23,642,198 67,136,737 1.71% -0.52%
2049 24,038,614 66,767,316 1.68% -0.55%
2050 24,433,817 66,382,732 1.64% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Benin increased by 2,934,537 people (a 34.8% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Benin gained 3,739,716 (a 32.9% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2005 and is 76th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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