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Capital:
Porto-Novo
Government:
Presidential Representative Democratic Republic
Current Head of Government:
Patrice Talon
Economy:
- Underdeveloped. Dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.
Population:
13,301,694 (July 2021 est.)
Land Size:
112,622 sq km (43,484 sq miles)
Major Ethnic Groups:
- Fon and related: 38.4%
- Adia and related: 15.1%
- Yoruba and related: 12.0%
- Bariba and related: 9.6%
- Fulani and related: 8.6%
- Peulh and related: 7.0%
- Ottamari and related: 6.1%
- Yoa-Lokpa and related: 4.3%
- Dendi and related: 2.9%
- Other (including Europeans): 0.9%
- Unspecified: 1.9%
Religions:
- Catholicism: 27.7%
- Islam: 25.5%
- Vodounism: 11.6%
- Protestantism: 13.5% (Celestial: 6.7%, Methodist: 3.4%, other Protestant: 3.4%)
- Other Christianity: 9.5%
- Other: 11.2%
Languages(s):
- French (official)
- Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south)