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During French colonial rule and after independence on 1 August 1960, the country was named Dahomey, after the Kingdom of Dahomey.On 30 November 1975, following a Marxist–Leninist military coup, the country was renamed Benin, after the Bight of Benin, which borders the country, due to Dahomey only being associated with the Fon who inhabited the southern half of the country. [18]
The demographics of Benin include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. The majority of Benin's 13.3 million people live in the south. [1][2] The population is young, with a life expectancy of 62 years. [1][2]
An enlargeable topographic map of Benin. Geography of Benin. Benin is: a country; Population of Benin: 8,439,000(2005) - 77th most populous country; Area of Benin: 112,622 square kilometres (43,484 sq mi) - 101st largest country; Atlas of Benin
Geography of Benin. Benin, a narrow, key-shaped, north–south strip of land in West Africa, lies between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer. Its latitude ranges from 6°30 ′ N to 12°30 ′ N and its longitude from 1° E to 3°40 ′ E. It is bounded by Togo to the west, Burkina Faso and Niger to the north, Nigeria to the east, and the ...
List of countries by population (United Nations) This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
This is a list of the current 54 African countries sorted by population, also sorted by normalized demographic projections from the most recently available census or demographic data. Africa is the fastest growing continent, currently increasing by 2.35% per year as of 2021. [1]
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [7] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [7] The world population more than tripled during the 20th century from about 1.65 billion in 1900 to 5.97 billion in 1999.