Is gross domestic product — value standard local currency, per unit of rising or falling in Benin?

Over the last ten years it is up 22.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.

Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of in Benin

Name: Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of in Benin
Creator: Statizoid (derived)
License: Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page

Benin: Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of was 0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)

0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP

Change on year

down 0.1%

World rank

27th

of 191 countries

All-time high

0.0008 million SLC per US$ of GDP

in 1998

All-time low

0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP

in 1979

Years of data

1970–2024

Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of in Benin, 1970–2024

Source: Statizoid (derived). Measured in million SLC per US$ of GDP.

Analysis

The most recent figure for gross domestic product — value standard local currency, per unit of in Benin is 0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP, measured in 2024.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 22.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, gross domestic product — value standard local currency, per unit of in Benin peaked at 0.0008 million SLC per US$ of GDP in 1998 and was at its lowest, 0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP, in 1979.

That places Benin 27th out of 191 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 55 years of available data.

Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of in Benin, year by year

Annual values for Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of GDP in Benin, 1970 to 2024.
Year	million SLC per US$ of GDP	Change
1970	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	—
1971	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+5.3%
1972	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-8.0%
1973	0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-11.9%
1974	0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+5.5%
1975	0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-11.2%
1976	0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+15.1%
1977	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+4.8%
1978	0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-10.0%
1979	0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-10.1%
1980	0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+7.1%
1981	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+32.4%
1982	0.0004 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+20.1%
1983	0.0004 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+16.0%
1984	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+14.7%
1985	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+2.8%
1986	0.0004 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-22.9%
1987	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-13.2%
1988	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-0.9%
1989	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+7.1%
1990	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-19.7%
1991	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+3.6%
1992	0.0004 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+24.3%
1993	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-19.2%
1994	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+96.1%
1995	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-4.4%
1996	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+10.8%
1997	0.0007 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+23.4%
1998	0.0008 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+9.3%
1999	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-23.6%
2000	0.0007 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+15.4%
2001	0.0007 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+3.1%
2002	0.0007 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-5.3%
2003	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-16.4%
2004	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-9.1%
2005	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-0.0%
2006	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-0.9%
2007	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-8.4%
2008	0.0004 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-6.8%
2009	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+5.4%
2010	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+5.2%
2011	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-4.8%
2012	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+8.3%
2013	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-3.3%
2014	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-0.0%
2015	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+19.7%
2016	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+0.2%
2017	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-2.0%
2018	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-4.3%
2019	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+5.5%
2020	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-2.0%
2021	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-3.4%
2022	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	+12.3%
2023	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-2.6%
2024	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	-0.1%

Benin compared with similar countries

Benin's 0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.0001 million SLC per US$ of GDP, 5.7× the median. (43 countries reporting)
Benin's 0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP, 1.2× the median. (45 countries reporting)

Biggest year-on-year movements

Years where Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of in Benin changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.

Year	Change	From	To
1994	+96.1%	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP

Averages by decade

Decade	Average	Lowest	Highest	Years
1970s	0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	10
1980s	0.0004 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	10
1990s	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0003 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0008 million SLC per US$ of GDP	10
2000s	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0004 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0007 million SLC per US$ of GDP	10
2010s	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0005 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	10
2020s	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP	5

Countries ranked near Benin

24 Angola 0.0008 million SLC per US$ of GDP compare
25 Burkina Faso 0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP compare
26 Central African Republic 0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP compare
28 Gabon 0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP compare
29 Niger 0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP compare
30 Senegal 0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP compare

See the full ranking of 191 places →

More economy & growth data for Benin

Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 3.42 Percent per annum (2029)
Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 6.03 Percent per annum (2029)
Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$), gaps 60.28 million BoP, current US$ (2024)
Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$), per unit 0.0028 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$), per capita 4.17 BoP, current US$ per person (2024)
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), gaps filled 543.01 million BoP, current US$ (2024)
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), annual 22.59 % change on previous year (2024)
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit 0.0253 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per capita 37.55 BoP, current US$ per person (2024)
General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) 12.54 % change on previous year (2025)

All data for Benin →

Frequently asked questions

What is gross domestic product — value standard local currency, per unit of in Benin?: Gross domestic product — value standard local currency, per unit of in Benin was 0.0006 million SLC per US$ of GDP in 2024, according to Statizoid (derived).
What is the highest gross domestic product — value standard local currency, per unit of recorded in Benin?: The highest recorded value was 0.0008 million SLC per US$ of GDP in 1998.
What is the lowest gross domestic product — value standard local currency, per unit of recorded in Benin?: The lowest recorded value was 0.0002 million SLC per US$ of GDP in 1979.
How does Benin rank for gross domestic product — value standard local currency, per unit of?: Benin ranks 27th out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
Is gross domestic product — value standard local currency, per unit of rising or falling in Benin?: Over the last ten years it is up 22.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Benin data come from?: The figures come from Statizoid (derived), published as part of Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of GDP. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 55 observations, free to reuse under Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page.

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of in Benin. Statizoid, drawing on Statizoid (derived). Retrieved 23 September 2026, from https://economy.statizoid.com/stat/gross-domestic-product-value-standard-local-currency-per-unit-of-gdp/benin/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page; please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://economy.statizoid.com/stat/gross-domestic-product-value-standard-local-currency-per-unit-of-gdp/benin/">Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of in Benin</a> — Statizoid

How this figure is calculated

Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency ÷ GDP (current US$)

Computed from

Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
GDP Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks

Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.

About this data

Indicator: Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency, per unit of GDP
Unit: million SLC per US$ of GDP
Source: Statizoid (derived)
Licence: Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage: 191 places, 9,350 data points, 1970–2024
Last refreshed: 19 September 2026

Gross Domestic Product — Value Standard Local Currency divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.