United Republic of Tanzania

  • President:Samia Suluhu Hassan
  • Prime Minister:Kassim Majaliwa
  • Capital city:Dodoma
  • Languages: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
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  • Population, persons:69,542,105 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:885,800
  • GDP per capita, US$:1,224 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:79.1 (2023)
  • GINI index:40.5 (2018)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:141

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    • March 2025
      Source: World Bank
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      Accessed On: 26 March, 2025
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      The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The Poverty data are now expressed in 2017 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) prices, versus 2011 PPP in previous editions. The new global poverty lines of $2.15, $3.65, and $6.85 reflect the typical national poverty lines of low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income countries in 2017 prices.