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Benin (2016-2017): an increasing number of participants in our Medical Capacity Building training program.
Mercy Ships has already visited Benin 5 times. Benin ranks 166 out of 187 countries according to the United Nations Humanitarian Development index.

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Life expectancy is 61 years.

High fertility rate with 5.7 children per woman.

The literacy rate is low, at 41% (28% for women, 55% for men).

60% of adult women and 40% of adult men have never attended school.

0.5 hospital bed per 1,000 people.

0.06 physicians per 1,000 people (data from 2008).

Benin is one of the countries most challenged with a shortage of medical personnel.