LEAD. Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database
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Western Africa

Benin

563 recorded engagements by Benin's heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers, 1990–2025.

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563Engagements
562Visits
0Phone calls
1Video conferences
39Signed agreements
75Destination countries
20Officials recorded
280Multilateral summits

LEAD records 39 signed agreements for Benin; registered users can browse them in the Agreements register.

At a glance

Between 1990 and 2025, Benin's leaders recorded 563 engagements: 562 in-person visits, 0 phone calls and 1 video conferences. Activity peaked in 2012, with 43 engagements that year. The most frequent destination was Nigeria (67 engagements), followed by France and United States of America. Diplomacy and Foreign Relations was the most common topic, present in 99% of engagements. 39 engagements produced a signed agreement, and 280 took place at multilateral summits. The most active official on record is Thomas Boni Yayi (President), with 262 engagements between 2006 and 2016.

Activity by year

Every engagement recorded for Benin, 1990–2025. Hover a bar for the exact count.

1990: 3 engagements1991: 5 engagements1992: 11 engagements1993: 9 engagements1994: 10 engagements1995: 6 engagements1996: 5 engagements1997: 11 engagements1998: 10 engagements1999: 5 engagements2000: 10 engagements2001: 8 engagements2002: 9 engagements2003: 17 engagements2004: 14 engagements2005: 20 engagements2006: 34 engagements2007: 21 engagements2008: 15 engagements2009: 31 engagements2010: 22 engagements2011: 19 engagements2012: 43 engagements2013: 36 engagements2014: 22 engagements2015: 37 engagements2016: 27 engagements2017: 15 engagements2018: 12 engagements2019: 19 engagements2020: 3 engagements2021: 5 engagements2022: 14 engagements2023: 17 engagements2024: 7 engagements2025: 11 engagements19901995200020052010201520202025

Most-visited countries

  • Nigeria67
  • France53
  • United States of America44
  • Ivory Coast35
  • Ghana27
  • Burkina Faso27
  • Senegal22
  • Togo22
  • Niger20
  • Libya16
  • China15
  • Ethiopia15

Discussion topics

  • Diplomacy and Foreign Relations560
  • Regional Organizations and Multilateral Affairs282
  • Trade and Economic Relations86
  • Development and Aid19
  • Security and Defense8
  • Human Rights and Governance6
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism4
  • Agriculture and Food Security2
  • Education and Culture2
  • Infrastructure and Connectivity1
  • Energy1
  • Migration and Human Mobility1

Cite this profile

Ozturk, Y., Atabas, H., Guler, E., Duyar, B., & Yucel, R. (2026). Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database [Data set]. Africa Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22976211 [Benin country profile. Accessed 22 October 2026. https://lead-database.netlify.app/country/benin.html]

Every part of the site quotes this same reference; other formats (MLA, Chicago, Harvard, BibTeX) are on the About page, which also describes the coding rules and sources. Figures here were generated from the dataset on 2026-10-22 and describe outbound engagements by Benin's own officials.