Side by side

Benin and Togo compared

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

🇧🇯Benin

c. 1600The Kingdom of Dahomey is founded on the Abomey plateau

Dossier →Chronicle →

🇹🇬Togo

27 April 1960Independence of the Republic of Togo

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
41
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-10

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. c. 15th–17th centuries

    The Ewe exodus from Notsé

    Ewe tradition tells of escape from the walled town of Notsé and the tyranny of King Agokoli, after which the people dispersed westward and southward — a foundational narrative of Ewe identity across Ghana, Togo and Benin.

    Peoples & Migration · from the Togo chronicle · Peoples, migrations and the land · Exodus of the Ewe from Notsé, Togo (country overview and history)