- Capital: Porto-Novo
- POPULATION: 7.863 Million
- LANGUAGES: French(official)
- Median age: 18
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 38.85
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 12.22
- Life expectancy: 53.04
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 33.6%
  male: 46.4%
  female: 22.6% (2002 est.)
- Independence: 1 August 1960 frm France
- GDP per capita: $1,100

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