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If you were born in Benin today
About 1 in 306 babies born in the world right now is born in Benin (0.33%). This is what that life starts with — and you can live one, to the very end.
Life expectancy at birth61.8years · world 69.3
Children who die before five100per 1,000 births · world 48
Income per person$2,580a year, at local prices · world $13,616
Expected years of school12.6years · world 12.0
Life satisfaction4.6out of 10 · world 4.8
Live in cities51%world 52%
Mothers who die giving birth397per 100,000 births · world 239
Girls married before 1831%world 22%
- Out of every 1,000 babies born here, about 100 will not live to see their fifth birthday — 2.1 times the world average.
- A life here lasts 61.8 years on average — 7.5 years shorter than the world's 69.3.
- Income per person is about $2,580 a year at local prices, 0.19 times the world's.
Be born — maybe hereWhere you are born is drawn by real birth odds: today, 0.33% of the time it is Benin.
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Sources: UN World Population Prospects, UN IGME, World Bank, UNDP, World Happiness Report, WHO, UNICEF. Some small territories use regional estimates.