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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  • 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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    • July 2025
      Source: World Bank
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      Accessed On: 10 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.
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    • August 2023
      Source: National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania
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      Accessed On: 08 September, 2023
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      This report presents the Key results of the Integrated Labor Force Survey (ILFS) conducted in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar from July 2020 to June 2021. The survey was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and Office of the Chief Government Statistician Zanzibar ( OCGS) in collaboration with the Prime Minister's Office, Policy, Parliamentary Affairs, Labour, Youth, Employment and Person with Disability on behalf of the Government of United Republic of Tanzania. The 2020/21 is the sixth of such survey conducted by the Government in collaboration with Development Partners (DPs) and other stakeholders.
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    • March 2024
      Source: United Nations Development Programme
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      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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