Benin: more babies born than in Italy
births in 2023
Italy has 4.2 times as many people (59.5M against 14.1M), yet more babies were born here in 2023: 478k against 380k. It overtook Italy in births in 2017.
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Live births in a calendar year, for two countries: one has far fewer people yet more babies.
Blue is the country of the headline, orange the one it is compared with; one scale. The ring marks where the lines crossed; the gap after it is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both share.
- Benin: Births thousand births per year
92 (1950) → 478 (2023)
- Italy: Births thousand births per year
913 (1950) → 380 (2023)
UN DESA, World Population Prospects 2024 → Eurostat demo_gind (births) / demo_find (TFR), retrieved 2026-10-01
- Benin: Population thousand persons, 1 July
14,111 (2023)
- Italy: Population thousand persons, 1 July
59,499 (2023)
Well-known countries against every country of sufficient size. An overtaking counts if the country was well behind at the start, ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it lasts to the latest shared year (at least two or three years in a row). A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named. At most three overtakings per well-known country, and each country in at most one card of a kind.
UN estimates (World Population Prospects 2024) and national statistics where available; population on 1 July of the same year.
A question for this picture
How many of these children will look for work in 20 years, and where?