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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
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • 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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    • AFDB Socio Economic Database 2024
      February 2024
      Source: African Development Bank Group
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 19 February, 2024
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      This dataset contains data for the African countries and aggregate countries such as crude oil producers ; Sub-Saharan Africa. Data is organized under sixteen socio-economic chapters such as prices, energy, agriculture, social and AFDB aggregates which covers country scores in regional integration, social protection among others.
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    • Census Data for Africa
      March 2022
      Source: The Africa Information Highway
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 11 July, 2022
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      Data cited at: https://dataportal.opendataforafrica.org/rtufdnc/social This Dataset describes the list of common indicators from census datasets of African countries.
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    • Human Development Report, 2023-24 Statistical Update
      March 2024
      Source: United Nations Development Programme
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 10 April, 2024
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      Data Cited at: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, Human Development Data Center The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of achievements in three key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the the three dimensions.
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    • World Development Indicators (WDI)
      June 2025
      Source: World Bank
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 01 July, 2025
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      The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates