GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 2025118Economy Pro file BeninScore 0.676Rank 113thPage 2 of 2 Complementary Targets and Contextual Indicators 2025 General indicators Indicatr Unit Value GDP US$ billions 19.68 GDP per capita, PPP constant '21, intl. $ 1000 3.72 Population sex ratio female/male, % 49.86 Population growth rate % 2.52 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Total population 7.04 7.07 14.11 Work participation and leadershipIndicatr Unit Value Gender wage gap % n. a. Share of women's membership in boards % n. a. Firms with female majority ownership % firms 22.00 Firms with female top managers % firms 25.90 Indicatr 1-7 (best) Value Advancement of women to leadership roles 4.56 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Labour-force 2.27 2.04 4.31 Indicatr Unit Female Male Value Share of workers in informal sector % workers 98.16 94.38 96.35 Unemployed adults % of labo/g5Cr force /gF1/g1C/g14 64) 1.56 1.98 1.76 Workers employed part-time % of employed people n. a. n. a. n. a. Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work % n. a. n. a. n. a. Access to finance Indicatr Equal rights Value Access to financial services Equal rights Inheritance rights for widows and daughters Near-equal rights Access to land assets Access to non-land assets Equal rights Cixg57il and political xg47reedomIndicatr Unit Value Year women received right to vote year 1960 Number of female heads of state to date n/g5Cmber n. a. Seats held in upper house % total seats n. a. Indicatr Yess Value Election list quotas for women, national Yes Party membership quotas, voluntary Yes Indicatr Equal rights Value Access to justice Equal rights Freedom of movement Restricted rightsFamily and careIndicatr Unit Value Unmet family planning % women 1/g1C/g144/g20 29.90 Early marriage % 18.50 Mean age of women at birth of first child years n. a. Indicatr Equal rights Value Right to divorce Equal rights Indicatr Shared days Female Male Value Length of paid parental leave 98 3 0 Education and skills Graduates % Female Male Value STEM 16.72 24.97 21.76 Agri., Forestry, Fisheries & Veterinary 2.34 4.42 3.62 Arts & Humanities 10.01 14./g1C4 12.78 Business, Admin. & Law 52.39 3/g1D.93 42.94 Education 1.63 3.30 2.65 Engineering, Manuf. & hgk onstruction 2.98 7.2/g1D 5.59 Health & Welfare 5.84 3.1/g1C 4.19 Information & hgk omm. Technologies 2.07 4./g1C8 3.60 Natural Sci., Mathematics & Statistics 11.68 13.13 12.57 Social Sci., hgljournalism & Information 9.13 11.88 10.81 Graduates Attainment % Female Male g37arity Vocational training 1.00 2.08 1.55 PhD graduates n. a. n. a. n. a. Graduates from tertiary education 1.00 2.08 1.55 Health Indicatr Unit Value Prevalence of gender violence in lifetime % women 26.00 Births attended by skilled personnel % live births 78.10 Maternal mortality deaths per 100,000 live births 518.00 Total fertility rate births per woman 4.56 Indicatr Equal rights Value Reproductive autonomy Equal rights *Scores are on a 0 to 1 scale, where 1 represents the optimal situation or “parity ”. Please see Appendix A and B for detailed methodology, de finitions, sources and periods. **For all indicators, except the two health indicators, parity is benchmarked at 1. In the case of sex ratio at birth, the gender parity benchmark is set at 0.944 hgFsee hglklasen and Wink, 2003hgji. In the case of healthy life expectancy the gender parity benchmark is set at 1.06, given women's longer life expectancy.Global Gender Gap Report 2025 118