Tansania - Daten & Fakten

total: 947,300 sq km

land: 885,800 sq km

water: 61,500 sq km

note: includes the islands of Mafia, Pemba, and Zanzibar

agricultural land: 43.7% (2018 est.)

arable land: 14.3% (2018 est.)

permanent crops: 2.3% (2018 est.)

permanent pasture: 27.1% (2018 est.)

forest: 37.3% (2018 est.)

other: 19% (2018 est.)

Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Kenya and Mozambique

0-14 years: 41.5% (male 13,765,789/female 13,475,555)

15-64 years: 55.15% (male 18,076,988/female 18,123,677)

65 years and over: 3.35% (2023 est.) (male 933,786/female 1,266,887)

32.9 births/1,000 population (2023 est.)

5.02 deaths/1,000 population (2023 est.)

Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages; note - Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources including Arabic and English; it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages

major-language sample(s):
The World Factbook, Chanzo cha Lazima Kuhusu Habari ya Msingi. (Kiswahili)

The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information.

total population: 70.48 years

male: 68.72 years

female: 72.29 years (2023 est.)

262,000 Dodoma (legislative capital) (2018), 7.776 million DAR ES SALAAM (administrative capital), 1.311 million Mwanza, 800,000 Zanzibar (2023)

total: 18.2 years

male: 17.9 years

female: 18.4 years (2020 est.)

19.8 years (2015/16 est.)

note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49

-0.39 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2023 est.)

the largest and most populous East African country; population distribution is extremely uneven, but greater population clusters occur in the northern half of country and along the east coast as shown in this population distribution map

2.75% (2023 est.)

4.33 children born/woman (2023 est.)

urban population: 37.4% of total population (2023)

rate of urbanization: 4.89% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)

3.3% of GDP (2021 est.)

total: 9 years

male: 9 years

female: 9 years (2021)

-1.8% (of GDP) (2017 est.)

6.5% (2021 est.)

29.863 million (2021 est.)

26.4% (2017 est.)

2.65% (2021 est.)

2.53% (2020 est.)

2.22% (2019 est.)

37% of GDP (2017 est.)

38% of GDP (2016 est.)

3.69% (2021 est.)

3.29% (2020 est.)

3.46% (2019 est.)

$8.555 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

$9.659 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

$8.307 billion (2018 est.)

India 15%, United Arab Emirates 15%, Switzerland 14%, Uganda 12%, China 7% (2020)

$9.181 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

$10.576 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

$10.399 billion (2018 est.)

China 34%, Democratic Republic of the Congo 14%, India 12%, United Arab Emirates 6%, South Africa 3% (2020)

166 (2021)

total: 1,135,608 (2020 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 2 (2020 est.)

total: 20.48 million (2021 est.)

percent of population: 32% (2021 est.)

total: 4,097 km (2022)

standard gauge: 421 km (2022)

narrow gauge: 969 km (2022) 1.067 m gauge

broad gauge: 2,707 km (2022) 1.000 m guage

total: 145,203 km (2022)

paved: 11,201 km (2022)

unpaved: 134,002 km (2022)

total subscriptions: 72,000 (2021 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: (2021 est.) less than 1

total subscriptions: 54 million (2021 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 85 (2021 est.)

1,594 km (2022) (Lake Tanganyika 673 km, Lake Victoria 337 km, and Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) 584 km are the principal avenues of commerce with neighboring countries; the rivers are not navigable)