- ISO 3166
BJ- Primary locale
fr-BJ- Currency
- XOF · West African CFA Franc
- Region
- SSA
Benin
Benin has 14.7M people, and 5M of them are online. French is the most widely spoken language at 34%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. French is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to fr-BJ.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
5M
0%world median 81%100%
34% of 14.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$1,658
Higher than 16% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
52%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
4
French 34% · Fon 25% · Yoruba 7%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
406
Very lowVery high
Very low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
42%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against fr-BJ, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
3
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 avril 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 235 F CFA
1,234.56 in XOF · West African CFA Franc