Benin
Republic of Benin
- Capital
- Porto-Novo
- Region
- Western Africa
- Population, 2025
- 15 million
- Currency
- XOF
- Area
- 112,622 km²
Across Benin's 1 priced cities, one person needs about $975 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $263.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%23
- Safety20%96
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%86
- Connectivity10%19
- Cost10%77
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 35%
- SourceWikipedia
- Lowest income tax rate
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 30%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 18%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- —
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- —
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2017
- 1.1
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #121 worldwide
- 46
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +86%
Cities in Benin
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Parakou | 69 | — | — | — | — | 255.5K | Low confidence |
| 2Abomey | 63 | — | — | — | — | 117.8K | Low confidence |
| 3Godomè | 63 | — | — | — | — | 253.3K | Low confidence |
| 4Porto-Novo | 59 | — | — | — | — | 264.3K | Low confidence |
| 5Abomey-Calavi | 56 | — | — | — | — | 385.8K | Low confidence |
| 6Cotonou | 46 | 52.7 | $184 | $263 | 30.8 | 679K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |