Population in Benin compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Benin and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Benin	United Kingdom	Benin	United Kingdom
1960	2,517,286	52,400,000	-	-
1961	2,559,223	52,800,000	1.67%	0.76%
1962	2,604,659	53,250,000	1.78%	0.85%
1963	2,652,908	53,650,000	1.85%	0.75%
1964	2,704,003	54,000,000	1.93%	0.65%
1965	2,757,936	54,348,050	1.99%	0.64%
1966	2,814,317	54,648,500	2.04%	0.55%
1967	2,872,997	54,943,600	2.09%	0.54%
1968	2,934,257	55,211,700	2.13%	0.49%
1969	2,998,222	55,441,750	2.18%	0.42%
1970	3,065,057	55,663,250	2.23%	0.4%
1971	3,134,767	55,896,223	2.27%	0.42%
1972	3,207,543	56,086,065	2.32%	0.34%
1973	3,283,496	56,194,527	2.37%	0.19%
1974	3,362,633	56,229,974	2.41%	0.06%
1975	3,445,407	56,225,800	2.46%	-0.007%
1976	3,532,196	56,211,968	2.52%	-0.02%
1977	3,623,202	56,193,492	2.58%	-0.03%
1978	3,718,305	56,196,504	2.62%	0.005%
1979	3,818,528	56,246,951	2.7%	0.09%
1980	3,925,251	56,314,216	2.79%	0.12%
1981	4,038,307	56,333,829	2.88%	0.03%
1982	4,156,596	56,313,641	2.93%	-0.04%
1983	4,278,978	56,332,848	2.94%	0.03%
1984	4,405,895	56,422,072	2.97%	0.16%
1985	4,538,012	56,550,268	3%	0.23%
1986	4,675,420	56,681,396	3.03%	0.23%
1987	4,818,486	56,802,050	3.06%	0.21%
1988	4,967,341	56,928,327	3.09%	0.22%
1989	5,121,657	57,076,711	3.11%	0.26%
1990	5,281,479	57,247,586	3.12%	0.3%
1991	5,446,932	57,424,897	3.13%	0.31%
1992	5,617,844	57,580,402	3.14%	0.27%
1993	5,872,706	57,718,614	4.54%	0.24%
1994	6,096,506	57,865,745	3.81%	0.25%
1995	6,226,773	58,019,030	2.14%	0.26%
1996	6,391,858	58,166,950	2.65%	0.25%
1997	6,583,365	58,316,954	3%	0.26%
1998	6,789,489	58,487,141	3.13%	0.29%
1999	7,002,818	58,682,466	3.14%	0.33%
2000	7,221,619	58,892,514	3.12%	0.36%
2001	7,445,596	59,119,673	3.1%	0.39%
2002	7,675,426	59,370,479	3.09%	0.42%
2003	7,913,070	59,647,577	3.1%	0.47%
2004	8,159,094	59,987,905	3.11%	0.57%
2005	8,426,144	60,401,206	3.27%	0.69%
2006	8,693,242	60,846,820	3.17%	0.74%
2007	8,953,969	61,322,463	3%	0.78%
2008	9,228,466	61,806,995	3.07%	0.79%
2009	9,509,423	62,276,270	3.04%	0.76%
2010	9,797,484	62,766,365	3.03%	0.79%
2011	10,093,623	63,258,810	3.02%	0.78%
2012	10,397,657	63,711,000	3.01%	0.71%
2013	10,708,834	64,139,000	2.99%	0.67%
2014	11,030,004	64,620,000	3%	0.75%
2015	11,360,681	65,088,000	3%	0.72%
2016	11,697,842	65,607,000	2.97%	0.8%
2017	12,039,780	65,966,000	2.92%	0.55%
2018	12,383,347	66,289,000	2.85%	0.49%
2019	12,726,755	66,631,000	2.77%	0.52%
2020	13,070,169	66,744,000	2.7%	0.17%
2021	13,413,417	66,984,000	2.63%	0.36%
2022	13,759,501	67,604,000	2.58%	0.93%
2023	14,111,034	68,492,000	2.55%	1.31%
2024	14,462,724	69,226,000	2.49%	1.07%
2025	14,814,463	69,639,673	2.43%	0.6%
2026	15,170,422	70,020,350	2.4%	0.55%
2027	15,529,420	70,382,853	2.37%	0.52%
2028	15,890,289	70,732,699	2.32%	0.5%
2029	16,253,927	71,061,482	2.29%	0.46%
2030	16,618,827	71,377,535	2.24%	0.44%
2031	16,985,939	71,678,351	2.21%	0.42%
2032	17,357,069	71,959,934	2.18%	0.39%
2033	17,731,448	72,234,509	2.16%	0.38%
2034	18,109,922	72,497,650	2.13%	0.36%
2035	18,492,634	72,749,096	2.11%	0.35%
2036	18,878,049	72,990,847	2.08%	0.33%
2037	19,264,504	73,218,850	2.05%	0.31%
2038	19,655,285	73,441,349	2.03%	0.3%
2039	20,049,973	73,658,392	2.01%	0.3%
2040	20,445,765	73,868,334	1.97%	0.29%
2041	20,843,268	74,074,316	1.94%	0.28%
2042	21,242,984	74,275,779	1.92%	0.27%
2043	21,643,647	74,475,035	1.89%	0.27%
2044	22,042,581	74,667,284	1.84%	0.26%
2045	22,443,653	74,848,605	1.82%	0.24%
2046	22,846,199	75,020,949	1.79%	0.23%
2047	23,245,147	75,184,478	1.75%	0.22%
2048	23,642,198	75,337,543	1.71%	0.2%
2049	24,038,614	75,476,141	1.68%	0.18%
2050	24,433,817	75,600,588	1.64%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Benin increased by 2,934,537 people (a 34.8% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Benin gained 3,739,716 (a 32.9% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Benin was ranked 89th most populous country in 2005 and is 76th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.