Health in Benin

Benin faces a number of population health challenges. Apart from modern medicine, traditional medicine plays a big role too.^[1]

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative^[2] finds that Benin is fulfilling 59.2% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income.^[3] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Benin achieves 77.5% of what is expected based on its current income.^[4] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves 81.5% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income. ^[5] Benin falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 18.5% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available.^[6]