Benin

Population Statistics

10,448,647

Total Population

1,567,297

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

05 July 2012

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of the Republic of Benin (1990)

Updated: June 2015

Article 6 states:

Suffrage shall be universal, equal and secret. The electors shall be, under the conditions determined by law, all Béninese nationals of both sexes over the age of eighteen and in full possession of their civil and political rights.

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Republic of Benin (1990)