- ISO 3166
BJ- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
5M
0%world median 81%100%
34% of 14.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 spending power, not revenue.
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 6.7%
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. 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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR records French in 64 territories and 333M speakers in total; Benin holds 2% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The French profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (fr-BJ).
Plural categories
3
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
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