Estimated Election Costs With Biometrics

Country	Year	Registered voters	Election cost	Biometric tech cost	Election cost/Voter	Biometric cost/Voter
Benin	2011	4,483,000	51,704,000	12,950,000	14.1	2.7
Burkina Faso	2012	4,365,000	58,000,000	23,000,000	13.3	5.3
Cameroon	2013	5,481,226	39,000,000	15,000,000	7.1	2.7
Cote d’Ivoire	2010	5,780,000	330,000,000	266,000,000	57.1	46
DRC	2011	32,000,000	360,000,000	58,000,000	11.3	1.8
Ghana	2012	14,031,793	124,000,000	70,000,000	8.8	5.4
Kenya	2013	14,350,000	325,000,000	106,200,000	22.6	7.4
Mali	2013	6,800,000	50,000,000	14,300,000	7.4	2.1
Nigeria	2015	70,000,000	627,000,000	----------	8.6	----------
Sierra Leone	2012	2,700,000	25,000,000	10,000,000	9.3	3.7
Tanzania	2015	23,161,440	120,000,000	720,000,000	5.2	3.1
Zambia	2011	5,167,000	67,600,000	14,700,000	13.1	2.8

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