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Benin
Standards
Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:220V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:E,
Geography
Location: Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Benin, between Nigeria and Togo
Area:
total: 112,620 sq km
land: 110,620 sq km
water: 2,000 sq km
Climate: tropical; hot, humid in south; semiarid in north
Terrain: mostly flat to undulating plain; some hills and low mountains
Economy
GDP: $12.84 billion (2008 est.)
$12.25 billion (2007)
$11.72 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP growth rate: 4.8% (2008 est.)
4.5% (2007 est.)
GDP per capita: $1,500 (2008 est.)
$1,500 (2007 est.)
$1,500 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Inflation rate: 5.2% (2008 est.)
Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 447.81 (2008 est.), 493.51 (2007), 522.59 (2006), 527.47 (2005), 528.29 (2004)
note: since 1 January 1999, the West African CFA franc (XOF) has been pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 CFA francs per euro; West African CFA franc (XOF) coins and banknotes are not accepted in countries using Central African CFA francs (XAF), and vice versa, even though the two currencies trade at par
People
Population: 8,791,832
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 2009 est.)
Growth rate: 2.977% (2009 est.)
Religions: 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)
Languages: French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
Government
Capital:
name: Porto-Novo (official capital)
time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
note: Cotonou (seat of government)
Independence: 1 August 1960 (from France)
Note: Information on Benin was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Benin, please visit one of the links below.
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