Benin Oil

Oil Reserves in Benin (2025)

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Benin holds 8,000,000 barrels of proven oil reserves as of 2025, ranking #93 in the world and accounting for about 0.00045% of the world's total oil reserves of 1,765,151,568,000.

Benin has proven reserves equivalent to 0.5 times its annual consumption levels (based on 2024 data). This means that, without net exports, there would be about 0 years of oil left (at 2024 consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).

History of Oil Reserves in Benin

Oil Consumption in Benin (2024)

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• Benin consumes 47,217 barrels per day (B/d) of oil as of the year 2024.
• Benin ranks #107 in the world for oil consumption, accounting for about 0.046% of the world's total consumption of 102,559,503 barrels per day.
• Benin consumes 0.14 gallons of oil per capita every day (based on the 2024 population of 14,462,724 people), or 50 gallons per capita per year (1 barrels). [1 barrel = 42 US Gallons]

Oil Imports and Exports

• Benin does not import nor export any Oil (as of [object Object]).