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Benin vs Cameroon: Birth rate

Benin
33.88 births per 1,000 people
in 2023
Cameroon
33.74 births per 1,000 people
in 2023
Benin rank
15th
Cameroon rank
17th

Birth rate over time

  • Benin
  • Cameroon
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How they compare

Benin currently reports 33.88 births per 1,000 people against 33.74 births per 1,000 people in Cameroon, a difference of 0.136 births per 1,000 people.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Cameroon ahead.

Benin ranks 15th and Cameroon ranks 17th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Birth rate
Unit
births per 1,000 people
Source
Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 18,723 data points, 1751–2023
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The total number of births per 1,000 people in a given year.