Benin's air transport, passengers carried fell from 57,300 in 1979 to 899 in 2016.
Benin · Infrastructure & transportation
Transport networks, passengers, freight and access.
10 indicators · 10 with data
Air
Benin's air transport, freight fell from 17.1 in 1979 to 0.0 in 2016.
Rail
Benin's rail lines (total route-km) rose from 579 km in 1996 to 758 km in 2006.
Benin's railways, passengers carried fell from 118 in 1996 to 66 in 2003.
Benin's railways, goods transported fell from 178 in 1996 to 36 in 2006.
Shipping
Benin's container port traffic rose from 300,000 in 2008 to 510,896 in 2019.
Liner shipping connectivity index
index (maximum value in 2004 = 100)
74th of 165 · 10th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Benin's liner shipping connectivity index rose from 11.4 in 2006 to 19.1 in 2021.
Logistics
Logistics performance index, overall
score (1 = low, 5 = high)
65th of 138 · 3rd in Sub-Saharan Africa
Benin's logistics performance index, overall rose from 2.5 in 2007 to 2.9 in 2022.
Access
Benin's access to electricity (% of population) rose from 14.5 % in 1996 to 59.0 % in 2024.
Mortality
Benin's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 28.4 /100k in 2000 to 26.8 /100k in 2019.