Perfil macroeconômico do país

Benin

Lower-middle-income West African economy where cotton, the Port of Cotonou, regional trade, agriculture, construction, and public investment drive activity. Key signals are cotton output, port throughput, Nigeria demand, fiscal financing, food prices, and regional monetary conditions.

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Benin

Visão geral

Benin is a West African economy. The profile should be read through cotton, port logistics, regional trade, agriculture, and construction, the monetary setting described by its central bank, and external pressure from Nigeria demand, cotton prices, regional reserves, fuel imports, and aid flows. The current IMF values give the cycle; national sources explain how that cycle reaches households, firms, banks, and public budgets.

How to read Benin

Start with the latest cycle, but do not stop there. IMF DataMapper current values put real GDP growth at 7 percent in 2026, after 7.5 percent in 2025. IMF DataMapper current values put average consumer-price inflation at 2 percent in 2026, after 1.1 percent in 2025. Those numbers tell you whether demand and prices are moving with or against the country's policy setting ^S6,S7.

Then move to structure. Benin's profile is shaped by cotton, port logistics, regional trade, agriculture, and construction. A good reading asks which of those channels is lifting output, which is absorbing labor, and which is most exposed to imported costs or foreign demand ^S1,S4,S5.

The final step is institutional. Uses the West African CFA franc; monetary policy led by the Central Bank of West African States. Presidential republic with a unicameral National Assembly. Those two facts decide how quickly inflation, credit, fiscal pressure, and external shocks can be answered ^S2,S3,S4.

Current macro file

Real GDP: IMF DataMapper current values put real GDP growth at 7 percent in 2026, after 7.5 percent in 2025as of 2025-2026[S6]
Inflation: IMF DataMapper current values put average consumer-price inflation at 2 percent in 2026, after 1.1 percent in 2025as of 2025-2026[S7]
Labor: IMF DataMapper does not publish a current unemployment value for Benin; read labor-market conditions through national statistics and household-survey releasesas of 2026-05-12[S1]
Scale: IMF DataMapper places nominal GDP at about $27.8 billion in 2026as of 2026[S6]
Public debt: IMF DataMapper puts gross government debt at 57.2 percent of GDP in 2026as of 2026[S9]
Money: Uses the West African CFA franc; monetary policy led by the Central Bank of West African States.[S2]
Government: Presidential republic with a unicameral National Assembly.[S3]

Use two lenses

Use IMF and World Bank series to compare Benin across countries, then use national releases to explain the domestic mechanism. The same GDP or CPI value can mean different things depending on the exchange-rate regime, fiscal space, banking system, and sector mix ^S1,S4,S5,S6.

Visão geral