Benin

  • President:Patrice Guillaume Athanase Talon
  • President of the National Assembly:Adrien Houngbédji
  • Capital city:Porto-Novo
  • Languages:French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:11,175,692 (2017)
  • Area, sq km:112,760 (2017)
  • GDP per capita, US$:830 (2017)
  • GDP, billion current US$:9.3 (2017)
  • GINI index:47.8 (2015)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:151 (2017)

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