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The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Analysis on their website(1) provides information on national statistics. Population data listed here. GDP up to 2014 in XLS here. Unemployment up to 2011 in PDF here.

The quality of the water is analysed daily by the national water company. There is 4 laboratories in the country, each with his operating area. The data are available for free after a request at the company.

source: 1. http://www.soneb.com/soneb2/04-info-eau/qualite-eau.php

The budget is regularly published by the general director of budget. The published format is not machine readable, but the excel one can be requested from the publisher. The budget is accessible for free

The chamber of trade and industry of Benin is responsible for companies data collection and publishing. The data are registered at the creation of a company and updated when the company notifies a change.

The data is available on the website of the chamber, but in PDF format and not updated (appears to be current to 2013).

The procurement tenders are published on the website of the general direction of procurement. All data about the tenders are publicly available, but the data are not machine readable and not up to date. Bulk downloads are not sufficiently frequent.

The national laws are made available by a collaboration between the Ministry of justice, the Abomey-Calavi University and the national school of administration and magistrate. This collaboration have lead to a website (1) where many law can be queried and downloaded.

There is a administrative map managed by the national geographic institute. This data contain the administrative borders of each administrative area. The data is not available online and must be paid when requested.

The Geographical National Institute of Benin is responsible for the production of topographic maps at the scale of 1:200000, 1:50000, 1:25000 but according to a 2008 report from the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water, whole coverage of the country is only available at 1:200000 scale

The Autonomous Electoral National Commission CENA is mandated by the law to share the results data with the press, government, the Constitutional court and other third parties like political parties or groups of political parties. The website of the publisher in under construction, so all data are not available

The government spending is managed by the general direction of the budget. All the spending is stored in a database with restricted access. The stored data is about all kind of spending including salary payment. So there is some sensible data that cannot be published. Anyone can do a request for government spending, specifying clearly the type of spending that he need. The general direction of the budget analyses the request and decides if it will give the data or not.

With support from the Millennium Challenge Account, Benin has restructured his land data management with a land information system, that help towns improve their work. There is no evidence about the availability of the data collected.

The national direction of the weather of benin produce weather data.

There is some data collected, but not at the national level.