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People
9,056,010
country comparison to the world: 
90
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2010 est.)
0-14 years: 45.2% (male 2,028,493/female 1,948,353)
15-64 years: 52.1% (male 2,275,662/female 2,308,945)
65 years and over: 2.6% (male 94,569/female 135,810) (2010 est.)
total: 17.3 years
male: 16.9 years
female: 17.8 years (2010 est.)
2.944% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 15
38.67 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 17
9.23 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 70
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 89
urban population: 41% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 4% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.69 male(s)/female
total population: 1 male(s)/female (2010 est.)
total: 63.13 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 30
male: 66.51 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 59.58 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
total population: 59.42 years
country comparison to the world: 188
male: 58.21 years
female: 60.68 years (2010 est.)
5.4 children born/woman (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 14
1.2% (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 50
64,000 (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 58
3,300 (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 53
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: malaria and yellow fever
respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis
animal contact disease: rabies (2009)
noun: Beninese (singular and plural)
adjective: Beninese
Fon and related 39.2%, Adja and related 15.2%, Yoruba and related 12.3%, Bariba and related 9.2%, Peulh and related 7%, Ottamari and related 6.1%, Yoa-Lokpa and related 4%, Dendi and related 2.5%, other 1.6% (includes Europeans), unspecified 2.9% (2002 census)
Christian 42.8% (Catholic 27.1%, Celestial 5%, Methodist 3.2%, other Protestant 2.2%, other 5.3%), Muslim 24.4%, Vodoun 17.3%, other 15.5% (2002 census)
French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 34.7%
male: 47.9%
female: 23.3% (2002 census)
total: 9 years
male: 10 years
female: 6 years (2005)
3.6% of GDP (2007)
country comparison to the world: 130
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