# Benin

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Benin
- **ISO code**: BJ
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Western Africa

## In brief

Benin has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI and big-data strategy 2023–2027 as policy; Digital Code applies. Regulators include Ministère du Numérique et de la Digitalisation, Autorité de Protection des Données Personnelles (APDP). Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Benin adopted a National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data 2023–2027 in January 2023 through the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation, with use cases in health, education, agriculture and public services, and the Digital Code (2017) provides the personal-data framework.

## Regulatory status

National AI and big-data strategy 2023–2027 as policy; Digital Code applies.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI and Big Data Strategy 2023–2027.

## Regulators

- Ministère du Numérique et de la Digitalisation — AI strategy lead — https://numerique.gouv.bj/
- Autorité de Protection des Données Personnelles (APDP) — Data-protection authority — https://apdp.bj/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.
- Use the African Union Continental AI Strategy (2024) as the regional reference where a national instrument is missing.

## Official sources

- Stratégie nationale d'intelligence artificielle et des mégadonnées 2023–2027 — Ministère du Numérique et de la Digitalisation — https://numerique.gouv.bj/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Stratégie nationale d'intelligence artificielle et des mégadonnées 2023–2027** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/benin-national-ai-and-big-data-strategy-2023-2027
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/benin-national-ai-and-big-data-strategy-2023-2027.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/benin
- **Official source**: https://numerique.gouv.bj/
- **Source document**: Stratégie nationale d'intelligence artificielle et des mégadonnées 2023–2027
- **Published by**: Ministère du Numérique et de la Digitalisation
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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