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{{Infobox country {{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = United Republic of Tanzania | conventional_long_name = United Republic of Tanzania
| native_name = {{what up wit u homie
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| common_name = Tanzania | common_name = Tanzania
| image_flag = Flag of Tanzania.svg | native_name = {{native name|sw|Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania}}
| image_flag = Flag of Tanzania.svg
| image_coat = Coat of arms of Tanzania.svg | image_coat = Coat of arms of Tanzania.svg
| image_map = Location Tanzania AU Africa.svg | national_motto = "Uhuru na Umoja"
| englishmotto = "Freedom and Unity"
| map_caption = {{map caption |countryprefix= |location_color=dark blue |region=Africa |region_color=light blue subregion=the ] |subregion_color=light blue}}
| national_anthem = "]"<br />"God bless Africa"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalanthems.info/znz.htm |access-date=29 January 2015 |date=2014 |title=Zanzibar |first=David |last=Kendall |work=nationalanthems.info |archive-date=4 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191004074956/http://www.nationalanthems.info/znz.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>{{parabr}}{{center|]}}
| image_map2 = Tanzania - Location Map (2013) - TZA - UNOCHA.svg
| image_map = Tanzania (orthographic projection).svg
| national_motto = {{native phrase|sw|"Uhuru na Umoja"|italics=off|nolink=on}}<br/>"]"
|national_anthem = '']''<br />{{small|''God Bless Africa''}}<br /><center>]</center>
| official_languages = {{unbulleted list |] |]<ref name=sim/>}}
| demonym = Tanzanian
| capital = ] | capital = ]
| coordinates = {{Coord|6|10|S|35|44|E|type:city|display=inline}}
| largest_city = ]
| largest_city = ]<br />{{Coord|06|48|S|39|16|E|region:TZ-02_type:city(6,400,000)|display=inline}}
| government_type = ] ] ]<ref name="Lawrence2009">{{cite book|author=David Lawrence|title=Tanzania: The Land, Its People and Contemporary Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVDYbCfaPuQC&pg=PA146|date= 2009|publisher=Intercontinental Books|isbn=978-9987-9308-3-8|pages=146–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219043350/http://tanzania-un.org/index.asp?pgid=56 |title=About the United Republic of Tanzania |website= |publisher=] |accessdate=31 January 2015 }}</ref>
| official_languages = {{hlist|]|]{{efn|] and ] serve as de facto official languages.<ref name=Mugoti>{{cite book |title=Africa (a-z) |author=Godfrey Mugoti |page=152 |publisher= Godfrey books |date=12 June 2009 |isbn=9781435728905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Plvuddy_4NYC&pg=PA512}}</ref><ref name=expogr>{{cite web|url=https://www.expogr.com/tanzania_country_information.php|title=Tanzania Country Information – All about Tanzania|website=expogr.com|access-date=26 April 2020}}</ref>}}}}
| languages_type = ]
| languages =
| languages2_type = Other languages
| languages2 = ], including (1m+):
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| religion_year = 2020
| religion_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/tanzania#/?affiliations_religion_id=0&affiliations_year=2020&region_name=All+Countries&restrictions_year=2016|title=Religions in Tanzania &#124; PEW-GRF|website=www.globalreligiousfutures.org|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=4 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304033104/http://globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/tanzania#/?affiliations_religion_id=0&affiliations_year=2020&region_name=All+Countries&restrictions_year=2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| religion = {{ublist |item_style=white-space:nowrap;
|63.1% ]
|34.1% ]
|1.5% ]
|1.2% ]
|0.1% others
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| demonym = ]
| government_type = Unitary dominant-party ]
| leader_title1 = ] | leader_title1 = ]
| leader_name1 = ] | leader_name1 = ]
| leader_title2 = ] | leader_title2 = ]
| leader_name2 = ] | leader_name2 = ]
| leader_title3 = ] | leader_title3 = ]
| leader_name3 = ] | leader_name3 = ]
| leader_title4 = ] | leader_title4 = ]
| leader_name4 = ] | leader_name4 = ]
| leader_title5 = ]
| leader_name5 = ]
| legislature = ] | legislature = ]
| sovereignty_type = Independence {{nobold|from the ]}}
| established_event1 = ]
| established_date1 = 9 December 1961
| established_event2 = {{nowrap|]}}
| established_date2 = 10 December 1963
| established_event3 = Unification of Tanganyika and Zanzibar
| established_date3 = 26 April 1964
| established_event4 = Current constitution
| established_date4 = 25 April 1977
| area_km2 = 947,303 | area_km2 = 947,303
| area_rank = 30th
| area_sq_mi = 365,756<ref name="BFF"/> <!--Do not remove per ]--> | area_sq_mi = 365,756<ref name="BFF"/> <!--Do not remove per ]-->
| area_rank = 31
| area_magnitude = 1 E11
| percent_water = 6.4<ref name="BFF"/> | percent_water = 6.4<ref name="BFF"/>
| population_estimate = 50.76 million<ref name="worldbank"/> | population_estimate = 67,462,121<ref>{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Tanzania|access-date=3 June 2024|year=2024}}</ref>
| population_estimate_year = 2014 | population_estimate_year = 2024
| population_census = {{IncreaseNeutral}} 61,741,120<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sensa.nbs.go.tz |title=Population Size in Tanzania |publisher=Tanzania Sensa |access-date=14 July 2023}}</ref>
| population_estimate_rank = 29
| population_census_year = 2022
| population_census = 44,928,923<ref name="2012 census"/>
| population_estimate_rank = 23rd
| population_census_year = 2012
| population_density_km2 = 47.5 | population_density_km2 = 65.2
| population_density_sq_mi = 123.1 <!--Do not remove per ]--> | population_density_sq_mi = 168.8 <!--Do not remove per ]-->
| population_density_rank = | population_density_rank = 147th
| GDP_PPP = {{increase}} $269.67 billion<ref name="IMFWEO.TZ">{{cite web |url=https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2023/October/weo-report?c=738,&s=NGDPD,PPPGDP,NGDPDPC,PPPPC,&sy=2020&ey=2028&ssm=0&scsm=1&scc=0&ssd=1&ssc=0&sic=0&sort=country&ds=.&br=1 |title=World Economic Outlook Database, October 2023 Edition. (Tanzania) |publisher=] |website=IMF.org |date=10 October 2023 |access-date=14 October 2023}}</ref>
| GDP_PPP_year = 2014
| GDP_PPP_rank = 68th
| GDP_PPP = $127,69 billion<ref name="worldbank3">{{cite web | url=http://databank.worldbank.org/data//reports.aspx?source=2&country=&series=NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD&period= | title=World Development Indicators | publisher=The World Bank | accessdate=4 July 2015}}</ref>
| GDP_PPP_rank = | GDP_PPP_year = 2024
| GDP_PPP_per_capita = {{increase}} $4,130<ref name="IMFWEO.TZ" />
| GDP_PPP_per_capita = $2,591<ref name="worldbank4">{{cite web | url=http://databank.worldbank.org/data//reports.aspx?source=2&country=&series=NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD&period= | title=World Development Indicators | publisher=The World Bank | accessdate=4 July 2015}}</ref>
| GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = | GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 161st
| GDP_nominal = $49.18 billion <ref name="worldbank">{{cite web | url=http://data.worldbank.org/country/tanzania | title=Tanzania | publisher=The World Bank | accessdate=4 July 2015}}</ref> | GDP_nominal = {{decrease}} $83.276billion<ref name="IMFWEO.TZ" />
| GDP_nominal_year = 2014 | GDP_nominal_rank = 82nd
| GDP_nominal_year = 2024
| GDP_nominal_per_capita = $998<ref name="worldbank2">{{cite web | url=http://databank.worldbank.org/data//reports.aspx?source=2&country=&series=NY.GDP.PCAP.CD&period= | title=World Development Indicators | publisher=The World Bank | accessdate=4 July 2015}}</ref>
| GDP_nominal_per_capita = {{decrease}} $1,234<ref name="IMFWEO.TZ" />
| Gini_year = 2012
| GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = 166th
| Gini_change = <!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| Gini = 37.8 | Gini = 40.5
| Gini_year = 2017
| Gini_ref = <ref>{{cite web | url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI | title=GINI Index | publisher=The World Bank | accessdate=14 October 2014}}</ref>
| Gini_rank = | Gini_change = increase <!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| Gini_ref = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/gini-index-coefficient-distribution-of-family-income/country-comparison |title=Gini Index coefficient| publisher=CIA Factbook |access-date=16 July 2021}}</ref>
| HDI_year = 2013<!-- Please use the year to which the data refers, not the publication year-->
| HDI_change = increase <!--increase/decrease/steady--> | Gini_rank =
| HDI = 0.488<!--number only, between 0 and 1--> | HDI = 0.532<!--number only, between 0 and 1-->
| HDI_year = 2022<!-- Please use the year to which the data refers, not the publication year-->
| HDI_ref = <ref name="HDI">{{cite web | url=http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr14-summary-en.pdf | title=2014 Human Development Report Summary |year=2014 | accessdate=27 July 2014 | publisher=United Nations Development Programme | pages=21–25}}</ref>
| HDI_rank = 159 | HDI_change = decrease <!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| HDI_ref = <ref name="HDI">{{cite web|url=https://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/2023-24_HDR/HDR23-24_Statistical_Annex_HDI_Table.xlsx|title=Human Development Report 2023/24|language=en|publisher=]|date=13 March 2024|access-date=22 March 2023|archive-date=19 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319085123/https://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/2023-24_HDR/HDR23-24_Statistical_Annex_HDI_Table.xlsx|url-status=live}}</ref>
| sovereignty_type = Independence {{nobold|from the ]}}
| established_event1 = ] | HDI_rank = 167th
| currency = ]
| established_date1 = 9 December 1961
| currency_code = TZS
| established_event2 = {{nowrap|]}}
| established_date2 = 10 December 1963 | time_zone = ]
| established_event3 = Merger | utc_offset = +3
| established_date3 = 26 April 1964 | utc_offset_DST =
| established_event4 = Current constitution | time_zone_DST =
| calling_code = ]{{efn|+007 from Kenya and Uganda}}
| established_date4 = 25 April 1977
| currency = ] | cctld = ]
| currency_code = TZS
| time_zone = ]
| drives_on = ]
| utc_offset = +3
| time_zone_DST = not observed
| utc_offset_DST = +3
| calling_code = ]<ref name=c group=note>+007 from ] and ].</ref>
| cctld = ]
| footnote_a = Revised to $41.33 billion<ref>{{cite web |url=http://af.reuters.com/article/tanzaniaNews/idAFL6N0U312N20141219?sp=true |title=UPDATE 2-Tanzania's GDP expands by 32 pct after rebasing – officials |date=19 December 2014 |website= |agency=Reuters |accessdate=19 December 2014}}</ref>
}} }}
'''Tanzania''',{{efn|{{IPAc-en|ˌ|t|æ|n|z|ə|ˈ|n|iː|ə}} {{respell|TAN|zə|NEE|ə}},<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tanzania |title=Tanzania &#124; Define Tanzania at Dictionary.com |website=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=19 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/tanzania|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028151705/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/tanzania|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 October 2018|title=Tanzania|work=Oxford Dictionaries Online|access-date=28 October 2018}}</ref> rarely {{IPAc-en|t|æ|n|ˈ|z|eɪ|n|i|ə}} {{respell|tan|ZAY|nee|ə}}, {{IPA|sw|tɑⁿzɑˈni.ɑ|lang|small=no}}.}} officially the '''United Republic of Tanzania''',{{efn|{{langx|sw|Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania}}.}} is a country in ] within the ] region. It is bordered by ] to the northwest; ] to the northeast; the ] to the east; ] and ] to the south; ] to the southwest; and ], ], and the ] to the west. According to the 2022 national census, Tanzania has a population of around 62 million, making it the most populous country located entirely south of the equator.


Many important ] fossils have been found in Tanzania. In the Stone and Bronze Age, prehistoric migrations into Tanzania included ] speakers similar to modern day ] who moved south from present-day Ethiopia;<ref name="Genetics"/> Eastern Cushitic people who moved into Tanzania from north of ] about 2,000 and 4,000 years ago;<ref name="Genetics"/> and the ], including the ], who originated from the present-day South Sudan–Ethiopia border region between 2,900 and 2,400 years ago.<ref name="Genetics"/>{{rp|page 18}} These movements took place at about the same time as the settlement of the ] from West Africa in the ] and ] areas.<ref name="Genetics"/><ref name="auto">{{cite book |first=Christopher |last=Ehret |title=An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1i-IBmCeNhUC |date=2001 |publisher=University Press of Virginia |isbn=978-0-8139-2057-3}}</ref> In the late 19th century, the mainland came under German rule as ], and this was followed by British rule after ] when it was governed as ], with the ] remaining a separate colonial jurisdiction. Following their respective independence in 1961 and 1963, the two entities merged in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.<ref name="factbook">{{cite web |work=The World Factbook |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |title=Tanzania |date=29 September 2021 |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/tanzania/}}</ref> Tanganyika joined the British ] and Tanzania remains a member of the Commonwealth as a unified republic.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/united-republic-tanzania|title=United Republic of Tanzania &#124; The Commonwealth|website=thecommonwealth.org|date=15 August 2013}}</ref>
'''Tanzania''' {{IPAc-en|ˌ|t|æ|n|z|ə|ˈ|n|iː|ə}},<ref>{{cite web | url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tanzania | title=Tanzania &#124; Define Tanzania at Dictionary.com | publisher=Dictionary.reference.com | accessdate=19 February 2014}}<br/>This approximates the Kiswahili pronunciation {{IPA-sw|tanzaˈni.a|}}. However, {{IPA|/tænˈzeɪniə/}} is also heard in English.</ref> officially the '''United Republic of Tanzania''' ({{lang-sw|Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania}}), is a country in ] within the ] region. It is bordered by ] and ] to the north; ], ], and the ] to the west; ], ], and ] to the south; and the ] to the east. ], Africa's highest mountain, is in northeastern Tanzania.


Today, the country is a ] constitutional republic with the ] located in ];<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.etsav.upc.es/personals/iphs2004/pdf/148_p.pdf|title=The planning of the new capital of Tanzania: Dodoma, an unfulfilled dream|first=Aloysius C.|last=Mosha|access-date=13 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130712145006/http://www.etsav.upc.es/personals/iphs2004/pdf/148_p.pdf|archive-date=12 July 2013|url-status=dead|publisher=University of Botswana}}</ref> the former capital, ], retains most government offices and is the country's largest city, principal port, and leading commercial centre.<ref name="factbook" /><ref name="official_website">{{cite web|url=https://www.tanzania.go.tz/profilef.html|title=The Tanzania National Website: Country Profile|website=Tanzania.go.tz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131125222553/http://www.tanzania.go.tz/profilef.html|archive-date=25 November 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=1 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tanzaniaports.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100&Itemid=270|title=Dar es Salaam Port|publisher=Tanzaniaports.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222180354/http://www.tanzaniaports.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100&Itemid=270|archive-date=22 February 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=19 February 2014}}</ref> Tanzania is a ] with the ] ] party in power.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tools of single party hegemony in Tanzania: evidence from surveys and survey experiments |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/kcroke/files/single_party_pre-print.pdf |access-date=1 December 2024}}</ref> The country has not experienced major internal strife since independence and is seen as one of the safest and most politically stable on the continent.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tic.go.tz/reasons/peace-and-political-stability | title=TIC &#124; Peace and Political Stability }}</ref> Tanzania's population comprises about 120 ],<ref name="East Africa Living Encyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia |author=African Studies Center University of Pennsylvania |author-link=University of Pennsylvania |encyclopedia=East Africa Living Encyclopedia |title=Tanzania – Ethnic Groups| url=https://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/tethnic.htm}}</ref> ], and religious groups. ] is the largest ], with substantial ] and ] minorities.<ref name="Pew Africa"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304033104/http://globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/tanzania#/?affiliations_religion_id=0&affiliations_year=2010&region_name=All%20Countries&restrictions_year=2016 |date=4 March 2021 }}, ]</ref> Over 100 ], making it the most linguistically diverse country in East Africa;<ref name=sim>{{cite book |first1=Ulrich |last1=Ammon |first2=Norbert |last2=Dittmar |first3=Klaus J. |last3=Mattheier |title=Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LMZm0w0k1c4C&pg=PA1967 |year=2006 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-018418-1 |page=1967}}</ref> the country does not have a ''de jure'' official language,<ref name=Mugoti>{{cite book |title=Africa (a-z) |author=Godfrey Mugoti |page=152 |publisher= Godfrey books |date=12 June 2009 |isbn=9781435728905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Plvuddy_4NYC&pg=PA512}}</ref><ref name=expogr>{{cite web|url=https://www.expogr.com/tanzania_country_information.php|title=Tanzania Country Information – All about Tanzania|website=expogr.com|access-date=26 April 2020}}</ref> although the national language is ].<ref name="tzgov">{{cite web |title=Tanzania Profile |url=https://tanzania.go.tz/home/pages/68 |website=Tanzania.go.tz |publisher=Tanzanian Government |access-date=23 July 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802124344/https://tanzania.go.tz/home/pages/68 |archive-date=2 August 2017 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> English is used in foreign trade, in diplomacy, in higher courts, and as a medium of instruction in secondary and higher education,<ref name=sim/><ref name="afkinsider.com">{{cite news |url=https://afkinsider.com/88774/tanzania-ditches-english-education-overhaul-plan/ |agency=AFK Insider |title=Tanzania Ditches English In Education Overhaul Plan |date=17 February 2015 |access-date=23 February 2015 |archive-date=24 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224091256/http://afkinsider.com/88774/tanzania-ditches-english-education-overhaul-plan/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> while ] is spoken in ].
Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. Tanzania's population of 47.4 million (2014) is diverse, composed of several ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups. Tanzania is a presidential constitutional republic, and since 1996, its official capital has been ], where the President's Office, the ], and some government ministries are located.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.etsav.upc.es/personals/iphs2004/pdf/148_p.pdf | author = Aloysius C. Mosha | title = The planning of the new capital of Tanzania: Dodoma, an unfulfilled dream | accessdate = 13 March 2013 | publisher = University of Botswana }}</ref> ], the former capital, retains most government offices and is the country's largest city, principal port, and leading commercial centre.<ref name="factbook"/><ref name=official_website>{{cite web | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131125222553/http://www.tanzania.go.tz/profilef.html | title=The Tanzania National Website: Country Profile | publisher=Tanzania.go.tz | accessdate=1 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tanzaniaports.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100&Itemid=270 | title=Dar es Salaam Port | publisher=Tanzaniaports.com | accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref>

Tanzania is mountainous and densely forested in the north-east, where ], the highest ] and the ] in the world, is located. Three of the ] are partly within Tanzania. To the north and west lie Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, and Lake Tanganyika, the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish. To the south lies ]. The eastern shore is hot and humid, with the Zanzibar Archipelago just offshore. The ] is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area. The ], located on the ] at the Zambian border, is the second-highest uninterrupted waterfall in Africa.<ref name="Kalambo Falls">. ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.</ref> Tanzania is one of the most visited tourist destinations for ]s.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://theconversation.com/why-millions-chose-africa-as-their-safari-destination-52503 | title=Why millions chose Africa as their safari destination | date=12 January 2016 }}</ref>
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European colonialism began in mainland Tanzania during the late 19th century when Germany formed ], which gave way to British rule following World War I. The mainland was governed as ], with the ] remaining a separate colonial jurisdiction. Following their respective independence in 1961 and 1963, the two entities merged in April 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.<ref name="factbook">{{cite web | author=Central Intelligence Agency | authorlink=Central Intelligence Agency | work=] | title=Tanzania | url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tz.html | year=2013 | accessdate=12 July 2013}}</ref> The level of poverty in Tanzania is high.
==Etymology== ==Etymology==
The name "Tanzania" was created as a ] of the names of the two states that unified to create the country: ] and ].<ref>{{OEtymD|tanzania}}</ref> The name Tanzania was created as a ] of the names of the two states that unified to create the country: ] and ].<ref>{{OEtymD|tanzania}}</ref> It consists of the first three letters of the names of the two states ("Tan" and "Zan") and the suffix "-ia."


The name "Tanganyika" is derived from the ] words ''tanga'' ("sail") and ''nyika'' ("uninhabited plain", "wilderness"), creating the phrase "sail in the wilderness". It is sometimes understood as a reference to ].<ref> website accessed 1 May 2007.</ref> The name Tanganyika is derived from the ] words ''tanga'' "sail" and ''nyika'' "uninhabited plain, wilderness", creating the phrase "sail in the wilderness". It is sometimes understood as a reference to ].<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610213113/http://home.frognet.net/~jaknouse/gaz-af.html |date=10 June 2011}} website accessed 1 May 2007.</ref>


The name of Zanzibar comes from "zengi", the name for a local people (said to mean "black"), and the Arabic word "barr", which means coast or shore.<ref>{{OEtymD|zanzibar}}</ref> The name of ] derives from '']'', the name of a local people (said to mean "black"), and Arabic ''barr'' "coast" or "shore."<ref>{{OEtymD|zanzibar}}</ref>


==History== ==History==
{{main|History of Tanzania|History of Zanzibar}} {{main|History of Tanzania|History of Zanzibar}}
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===Pre-colonial===

The indigenous populations of eastern Africa are thought to be the ] ] and ] hunter-gatherers of Tanzania.<ref name="Genetics">{{Cite journal
===Ancient===
| doi = 10.1126/science.1172257
Tanzania is one of the oldest continuously inhabited areas on Earth. Traces of fossil remains of humans and hominids date back to the ] era. The ], in the ], a ], features a collection with remnants of tools that document the development and use of transitional ].
| title = The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans

| journal = Science
The indigenous populations of eastern Africa are thought to be the ] ] and ] hunter-gatherers of Tanzania.<ref name="Genetics">{{cite journal |doi=10.1126/science.1172257 |title=The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans |journal=Science |volume=324 |issue=5930 |pages=1035–44 |year=2009 |pmid=19407144 |pmc=2947357 |last1=Tishkoff |first1=S. A. |last2=Reed |first2=F. A. |last3=Friedlaender |first3=F. R.| last4=Ehret |first4=C. |last5=Ranciaro |first5=A. |last6=Froment |first6=A. |last7=Hirbo |first7=J. B. |last8=Awomoyi |first8=A. A. |last9=Bodo |first9=J. M. |last10=Doumbo |first10=O. |last11=Ibrahim |first11= M. |last12=Juma |first12=A. T. |last13=Kotze |first13=M. J. |last14=Lema |first14=G. |last15=Moore |first15=J. H. |last16=Mortensen |first16=H. |last17=Nyambo |first17=T. B. |last18=Omar |first18= S. A. |last19=Powell |first19=K. |last20=Pretorius |first20=G. S. |last21=Smith |first21=M. W. |last22=Thera |first22=M. A. |last23=Wambebe |first23=C. |last24=Weber |first24=J. L. |last25=Williams |first25=S. M.| bibcode=2009Sci...324.1035T |issn=0036-8075 }}</ref>{{rp|page 17}}
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| issue = 5930
The first wave of migration was by ] speakers who moved south from ] and ] into Tanzania. They are ancestral to the ], ], and ].<ref name="Genetics"/>{{rp|page 17}} Based on linguistic evidence, there may also have been two movements into Tanzania of Eastern Cushitic people at about 4,000 and 2,000 years ago, originating from north of ].<ref name="Genetics"/>{{rp|pages 17–18}}
| pages = 1035–44

| year = 2009 | pmid=19407144|pmc=2947357
Archaeological evidence supports the conclusion that ], including the ], moved south from the present-day South Sudan / Ethiopia border region into central northern Tanzania between 2,900 and 2,400 years ago.<ref name="Genetics"/>{{rp|page 18}}
| last1 = Tishkoff | first1 = S. A.
| last2 = Reed | first2 = F. A.
| last3 = Friedlaender | first3 = F. R.
| last4 = Ehret | first4 = C.
| last5 = Ranciaro | first5 = A.
| last6 = Froment | first6 = A.
| last7 = Hirbo | first7 = J. B.
| last8 = Awomoyi | first8 = A. A.
| last9 = Bodo | first9 = J. -M.
| last10 = Doumbo | first10 = O.
| last11 = Ibrahim | first11 = M.
| last12 = Juma | first12 = A. T.
| last13 = Kotze | first13 = M. J.
| last14 = Lema | first14 = G.
| last15 = Moore | first15 = J. H.
| last16 = Mortensen | first16 = H.
| last17 = Nyambo | first17 = T. B.
| last18 = Omar | first18 = S. A.
| last19 = Powell | first19 = K.
| last20 = Pretorius | first20 = G. S.
| last21 = Smith | first21 = M. W.
| last22 = Thera | first22 = M. A.
| last23 = Wambebe | first23 = C.
| last24 = Weber | first24 = J. L.
| last25 = Williams | first25 = S. M.
}}</ref>{{rp|page 17}}


These movements took place at approximately the same time as the settlement of the iron-making ] from West Africa in the ] and ] areas, as part of the centuries-long ]. The Bantu peoples brought with them the west African planting tradition and the primary staple of ]. They subsequently migrated out of these regions across the rest of Tanzania between 2,300 and 1,700 years ago.<ref name="Genetics"/><ref name="auto"/>
The first wave of migration was by ] speakers, who are ancestral to the ], ], and ] and who moved south from ] into Tanzania.<ref name="Genetics"/>{{rp|page 17}} Based on linguistic evidence, there may also have been two movements into Tanzania of Eastern Cushitic people at about 4,000 and 2,000 years ago, originating from north of ].<ref name="Genetics"/>{{rp|pages 17–18}}


Archaeological evidence supports the conclusion that ], including the ], moved south from the present-day ] / Ethiopia border region into central northern Tanzania between 2,900 and 2,400 years ago.<ref name="Genetics"/>{{rp|page 18}} ] peoples, including the ], represent a more recent migration from present-day South Sudan within the past 500 to 1,500 years.<ref name="Genetics"/><ref>{{cite book |first1=Phyllis |last1=Martin |first2=Patrick |last2=O'Meara |title=Africa |url=https://archive.org/details/africa00mart |url-access=registration |date=1995 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-20984-9}}</ref>


The people of Tanzania have been associated with the production of iron and steel. The ] were the main producers of sought-after iron for peoples who occupied the mountain regions of north-eastern Tanzania.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shoup |first1=John A. |title=Ethnic groups of Africa and the Middle East : an encyclopedia |date=2011 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, CA |isbn=978-1-59884-362-0 |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GN5yv3-U6goC&pg=PA67}}</ref> The ] on the western shores of ] invented a type of high-heat ], which allowed them to forge ] at temperatures exceeding {{convert|1820|C}} more than 1,500 years ago.<ref>{{cite journal |pmid=17830304 |year=1978 |last1=Schmidt |first1=P. |title=Complex iron smelting and prehistoric culture in Tanzania |journal=Science |volume=201 |issue=4361
These movements took place at approximately the same time as the settlement of the iron-making ] from West Africa in the ] and ] areas. They brought with them the west African planting tradition and the primary staple of ]. They subsequently migrated out of these regions across the rest of Tanzania between 2,300 and 1,700 years ago.<ref name="Genetics"/>{{rp|page 18}}<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Ehret|title=An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1i-IBmCeNhUC|date= 2001|publisher=University Press of Virginia|isbn=978-0-8139-2057-3}}</ref>
| pages=1085–89 |last2=Avery |first2=D.H. |doi=10.1126/science.201.4361.1085| bibcode=1978Sci...201.1085S |s2cid=37926350}}</ref>


Travelers and merchants from the ] and India have visited the east African coast since early in the first millennium AD.<ref>{{cite book |first=Kevin |last=Shillington |title=Encyclopedia of African History 3-Volume Set |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&pg=PA1510 |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-45670-2 |page=1510}}</ref> ] was practiced by some on the ] as early as the eighth or ninth century AD.<ref>. ''BBC World Service''.</ref>
] peoples, including the ], represent a more recent migration from present day South Sudan within the past 1,500 to 500 years.<ref name="Genetics"/>{{rp|page 18}}<ref>{{cite book|author1=Phyllis Martin|author2=Patrick O'Meara|title=Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAGPMAExRz8C|date= 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-20984-6}}</ref>


===Medieval===
The people of Tanzania have been associated with the production of ] and steel. The ] were the main producers of highly demanded iron for peoples who occupied the mountain regions of northeastern Tanzania.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shoup|first1=John A.|title=Ethnic groups of Africa and the Middle East : an encyclopedia|date=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|isbn=978-1-59884-362-0|page=67|url=http://books.google.com/?id=GN5yv3-U6goC&pg=PA67}}</ref> The ] on the western shores of ] invented a type of high-heat ], which allowed them to forge ] at temperatures exceeding {{convert|1820|C|F}} more than 1,500 years ago.<ref>{{Cite journal
Bantu-speakers built farming and trade villages along the Tanzanian coast from the outset of the first millennium. Archaeological finds at ], on the north-west coast of Zanzibar, indicate a settled agricultural and fishing community from the 6th century CE at the latest. The considerable amount of daub found indicates timber buildings, and shell beads, bead grinders, and iron slag have been found at the site. There is evidence for limited engagement in long-distance trade: a small amount of imported pottery has been found, less than 1% of total pottery finds, mostly from the Gulf and dated to the 5th to 8th century. The similarity to contemporary sites such as ] and Dar es Salaam indicate a unified group of communities that developed into the first centre of coastal maritime culture. The coastal towns appear to have been engaged in Indian Ocean and inland African trade at this early period. Trade rapidly increased in importance and quantity beginning in the mid-8th century and by the close of the 10th century Zanzibar was one of the central Swahili trading towns.<ref>Horton, Mark and Middleton, Tom. "The Swahili: The Social Landscape of a Mercantile Community." (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010), 46.</ref>
| pmid = 17830304
| year = 1978
| author1 = Schmidt
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| title = Complex iron smelting and prehistoric culture in Tanzania
| journal = Science
| volume = 201
| issue = 4361
| pages = 1085–9
| last2 = Avery
| first2 = D. H.
| doi = 10.1126/science.201.4361.1085
}}</ref>


Growth in Egyptian and Persian shipping from the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf revitalised ], particularly after the ] relocated to Fustat (Cairo). Swahili agriculturalists built increasingly dense settlements to tap into trade, these forming the earliest Swahili city-states. The Venda-Shona Kingdoms of ] and Zimbabwe in South Africa and ], respectively, became a major producer of gold around this same period. Economic, social, and religious power was increasingly vested in ], Tanzania's major medieval city-state. Kilwa controlled a number of smaller ports stretching down to modern-day Mozambique. ] became the major gold emporium and Kilwa grew rich off the trade, lying at the southern end of the Indian Ocean Monsoons. Kilwa's major rivals lay to the north, in modern-day Kenya, namely Mombasa and Malindi. Kilwa remained the major power in East Africa until the arrival of the Portuguese at the end of the 15th century.<ref>Campbell, Gwyn. "Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900." Cambridge University Press. 2019</ref>
Travellers and merchants from the ] and ] have visited the east African coast since early in the first millennium A.D.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kevin Shillington|title=Encyclopedia of African History 3-Volume Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&pg=PA1510|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-45670-2|pages=1510–}}</ref> ] was practised by some on the ] as early as the eighth or ninth century A.D.<ref>. ''BBC World Service''.</ref>


===Colonial=== ===Colonial===
{{Main|German East Africa|Tanganyika Territory}}
In 1498, the Portuguese explorer ] visited the Tanzanian coast. Later, in 1506, the Portuguese succeeded in controlling most of the Southeast African littoral.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} In 1699, the Portuguese were ousted from Zanzibar by Omani Arabs.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}
], a ]]]


Claiming the coastal strip, ] Sultan ] moved his capital to ] in 1840. During this time, Zanzibar became the centre for the ].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006131931/http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-24157| title=Slavery | work=Encyclopædia Britannica }}</ref> Between 65% and 90% of the population of ]-] ] was enslaved.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/548305/slavery/24157/Slave-societies |title=Slave societies |work=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=22 January 2014 |accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref> One of the most infamous slave traders on the East African coast was ], who was himself the grandson of an enslaved African. The ] slave traders operated under the leadership of ] and ].<ref>. BBC.</ref> According to Timothy Insoll, "Figures record the exporting of 718,000 slaves from the Swahili coast during the 19th century, and the retention of 769,000 on the coast."<ref>{{cite book|author=Junius P. Rodriguez|title=The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATq5_6h2AT0C|date= 1997|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-87436-885-7}}</ref> Claiming the coastal strip, ] Sultan ] moved his capital to ] in 1840. During this time, Zanzibar became the centre for the ].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-24157 |title=Slavery |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006131931/http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-24157 |archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref> Between 65 and 90 per cent of the ] population of ] was enslaved.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/548305/slavery/24157/Slave-societies |title=Slave societies |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=22 January 2014 |access-date=19 February 2014}}</ref>{{Clarify|date=November 2024|reason= By whom}} One of the most infamous slave traders on the East African coast was ], who was the grandson of an enslaved African. The ] slave traders operated under the leadership of ] and ].<ref>. BBC.</ref> According to ], "Figures record the exporting of 718,000 slaves from the Swahili coast during the 19th century, and the retention of 769,000 on the coast."<ref>{{cite book |first=Junius P. |last=Rodriguez |title=The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl01rodr |url-access=registration |date=1997 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-87436-885-7}}</ref> In the 1890s, slavery was abolished.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.enchantingtravels.com/travel-blog/zanzibar-map-history |title=On The Zanzibar Map: Spices, Slaves And A Bit Of History |date=17 February 2015}}</ref>


] against ] colonial rule in 1905]]
] in ] with a British Officer (left) and German Officer (right), March 1919]]


In 1863, the ] established an early reception center and depot at Zanzibar. In 1877, responding to appeals of ] following his ], and permission being given to Stanley by ], the ] sent missionaries ] and Henry Cole to establish inland missions.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Middleton |first1=Dorothy |title=Henry Morton Stanley |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Morton-Stanley |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=29 December 2022 |date=6 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Johnson, Hildergard Binder |title=The Locations of Christian Missions in Africa |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/213158 |journal=Geographical Review |year=1967 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=168–202 |publisher=Taylor and Francis Ltd |access-date=29 December 2022 |doi=10.2307/213158|jstor=213158 |bibcode=1967GeoRv..57..168J }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Europeans In East Africa - View entry |url=https://www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk/_site/custom/database/?a=viewIndividual&pid=2&person=174 |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk}}</ref> In 1885, Germany conquered the regions that are now Tanzania (minus Zanzibar) and incorporated them into ] (GEA).<ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Early Political Discord in Kenya: European Settlers' Political Struggles in the East Africa Protectorate, 1902–1912|publisher=West Virginia University Libraries|first=Makhete|last=Fall|year=2016 |doi=10.33915/etd.5569|doi-access=free}}</ref> The Supreme Council of the ] awarded all of GEA to Britain on 7 May 1919, over the strenuous objections of Belgium.<ref name="Ends"/>{{rp|240}} The British ], ], and Belgium's minister ] to the conference, {{ill|Pierre Orts|fr}}, then negotiated the Anglo-Belgian agreement of 30 May 1919<ref name="Belgium"/>{{rp|618–9}} where Britain ceded the north-western GEA provinces of ] to Belgium.<ref name="Ends">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NQnpQNKeKKAC&pg=PA246 |title=Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonization |author=William Roger Louis |publisher=I.B. Tauris |year=2006 |access-date=19 September 2017 |isbn=978-1-84511-347-6}}</ref>{{rp|246}} The conference's Commission on Mandates ratified this agreement on 16 July 1919.<ref name="Ends"/>{{rp|246–7}} The Supreme Council accepted the agreement on 7 August 1919.<ref name="Belgium">{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1919Parisv07/pg_613 |title=PAPERS RELATING TO THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE, 1919 |publisher=United States Department of State |volume=7 |access-date=19 September 2017}}</ref>{{rp|612–3}} On 12 July 1919, the Commission on Mandates agreed that the small ] south of the ] would be given to ],<ref name="Ends"/>{{rp|243}} with it eventually becoming part of independent Mozambique. The commission reasoned that Germany had virtually forced Portugal to cede the triangle in 1894.<ref name="Ends"/>{{rp|243}} The ] was signed on 28 June 1919, although the treaty did not take effect until 10 January 1920. On that date, the GEA was transferred officially to Britain, Belgium, and Portugal. Also on that date, "Tanganyika" became the name of the British territory. In the mid-1920s, the British implemented a system of ] in Tanzania.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Liebenow|first=J. Gus|date=1956|title=Responses to Planned Political Change in a Tanganyika Tribal Group|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400067496/type/journal_article|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=447–448|doi=10.2307/1951678|jstor=1951678 |s2cid=144390538 |issn=0003-0554}}</ref>
In the late 19th century, Imperial Germany conquered the regions that are now Tanzania (minus Zanzibar) and incorporated them into ]. The post–] accords and the ] charter designated the area a ], except for the ], a small area in the southeast that was incorporated into ] (later ]).


The ], between 1905 and 1907, was an uprising of several African tribes in ] against the colonial authorities, in particular because of forced labour and deportation of certain tribes. It was the subject of a bloody repression, which combined with famine caused 300,000 deaths among the population, out of a Tanganyikan population of about four million.<ref>{{ cite journal| first= John | last= Iliffe | author-link= John Iliffe (historian) | title= The Organization of the Maji Maji Rebellion | journal= The Journal of African History | pages= 495–512 | volume= 8 | number= 3 | date= 1967 | publisher= Cambridge University Press | jstor= 179833 | doi= 10.1017/S0021853700007982| doi-access= free }}</ref>
During ], about 100,000 people from Tanganyika joined the ]<ref name="Heale">{{cite book|author1=Jay Heale|author2=Winnie Wong|title=Tanzania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UhNJxHg14wC|year=2010|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7614-3417-7}}</ref> and were among the 375,000 Africans who fought with those forces.<ref name="MGT">. mgtrust.org.</ref> Tanganyikans fought in units of the ] during the ] in ] and ] against the Italians, in ] against the ] during the ], and in ] against the ] during the ].<ref name="MGT"/> Tanganyika was an important source of food during this war, and its export income increased greatly compared to the pre-war years of the ]<ref name="Heale"/> Wartime demand, however, caused increased commodity prices and massive ] within the colony.<ref>. ''eisa.org.za''.</ref>


During ], about 100,000 people from Tanganyika joined the ]<ref name="Heale">{{cite book |first1=Jay |last1=Heale |first2=Winnie |last2=Wong |title=Tanzania |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UhNJxHg14wC |year=2010 |publisher=Marshall Cavendish |isbn=978-0-7614-3417-7}}</ref> and were among the 375,000 Africans who fought with those forces.<ref name="MGT">. mgtrust.org.</ref> Tanganyikans fought in units of the ] during the ] in Somalia and ] against the Italians, in Madagascar against the ] during the ], and in Burma against the ] during the ].<ref name="MGT"/> Tanganyika was an important source of food during this war, and its export income increased greatly compared to the pre-war years of the ].<ref name="Heale"/> Wartime demand, however, caused increased commodity prices and massive inflation within the colony.<ref>. ''eisa.org.za''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204203753/http://www.content.eisa.org.za/old-page/tanzania-british-rule-between-wars-1916-1945 |date=4 February 2015}}</ref>
In 1954, ] transformed an organisation into the politically oriented ]. TANU's main objective was to achieve national ] for ]. A campaign to register new members was launched, and within a year TANU had become the leading political organisation in the country. Nyerere became Minister of British-administered Tanganyika in 1960 and continued as prime minister when Tanganyika became independent in 1961.


In 1954, ] transformed an organisation into the politically oriented ] (TANU). TANU's main objective was to achieve national ] for Tanganyika. A campaign to register new members was launched, and within a year, TANU had become the leading political organisation in the country. Nyerere became Minister of British-administered Tanganyika in 1960 and continued as prime minister when Tanganyika became independent in 1961.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mulenga|first=Derek C.|date=November 2001|title=Mwalimu Julius Nyerere: a critical review of his contributions to adult education and postcolonialism|journal=International Journal of Lifelong Education|volume=20|issue=6|pages=446–470|doi=10.1080/02601370110088436|s2cid=143740319|issn=0260-1370}}</ref>
===Post-colonial===
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British rule came to an end on 9 December 1961, but for the first year of independence, Tanganyika had a ] who represented the British monarch.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 6}} On 9 December 1962, Tanganyika became a democratic republic under an executive president.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 6}}


===Modern===
After the ] overthrew the Arab dynasty in neighbouring ],<ref name="Zanzibar">{{cite news | title=Unveiling Zanzibar's unhealed wounds | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8167390.stm | publisher=BBC News | date=25 July 2009}}</ref> which had become independent in 1963, the archipelago merged with mainland Tanganyika on 26 April 1964.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.vpo.go.tz/document_storage/historical_overview.pdf | title=Background history of The Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar | format=PDF | publisher=Vice President's Office, United Republic of Tanzania | accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> On 29 October of the same year, the country was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania ("Tan" comes from Tanganyika and "Zan" from Zanzibar).<ref name="factbook"/> The union of the two hitherto separate regions was controversial among many Zanzibaris (even those sympathetic to the revolution) but was accepted by both the Nyerere government and the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar owing to shared political values and goals.
British rule came to an end on 9 December 1961. ], who had acceded to the British throne in 1952, continued to reign through the first year of Tanganyika's independence, but now distinctly as ], represented by the ].<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 6}} Tanganyika also joined the ] in 1961.<ref name="auto1"/> On 9 December 1962, Tanganyika became a democratic republic under an executive president.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 6}}


After the ] overthrew the Arab dynasty in neighbouring ], accompanied with the slaughter of thousands of Arab Zanzibaris,<ref name="Zanzibar">{{cite news |title=Unveiling Zanzibar's unhealed wounds |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8167390.stm |work=BBC News |date=25 July 2009}}</ref> which had become independent in 1963, the archipelago merged with mainland Tanganyika on 26 April 1964.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vpo.go.tz/document_storage/historical_overview.pdf |title=Background history of The Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar |publisher=Vice President's Office, United Republic of Tanzania |access-date=25 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125124815/http://www.vpo.go.tz/document_storage/historical_overview.pdf |archive-date=25 January 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The new country was then named the ''United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/united-republic-tanganyika-and-zanzibar-renamed-united-republic-tanzania|title=The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed United Republic of Tanzania|publisher=South African History Online|access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/united-republic-tanzania/history|title=United Republic of Tanzania : History|publisher=Commonwealth.org|access-date=10 February 2019|archive-date=23 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223235543/http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/united-republic-tanzania/history|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 29 October of the same year, the country was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania ("Tan" comes from Tanganyika and "Zan" from Zanzibar).<ref name="factbook"/> The union of the two hitherto separate regions was controversial among many Zanzibaris (even those sympathetic to the revolution) but was accepted by both the ] government and the ] owing to shared political values and goals.<ref>{{cite web|language=es-ES|title=viajes a Tanzania|url=https://rutastanzania.viajes/|website=rutastanzania.viajes - ES}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
In 1967, Nyerere's first presidency took a turn to the ] after the ], which codified a commitment to socialism as well-as ]. After the declaration, banks and many large industries were nationalised.


Following Tanganyika's independence and unification with Zanzibar leading to the state of Tanzania, President Nyerere emphasised a need to construct a national identity for the citizens of the new country. To achieve this, Nyerere provided what is regarded as one of the most successful cases of ethnic repression and identity transformation in Africa.<ref>] and Kevin C. Dunn, "Inside African Politics" 2013: 81</ref> With more than 130 languages spoken within its territory, Tanzania is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Africa. Despite this obstacle, ethnic divisions remained rare in Tanzania when compared to the rest of the continent, notably its immediate neighbour, Kenya. Furthermore, since its independence, Tanzania has displayed more political stability than most African countries, particularly due to Nyerere's ethnic repression methods.<ref>Henry Bienen and John Waterbury, "World Development Vol 17", 1989: 100</ref>
Tanzania was also aligned with China, which from 1970 to 1975 financed and helped build the {{convert|1860|km|mi|adj=mid|-long}} ] from Dar es Salaam to ].<ref>{{cite book |author=Jamie Monson | title=Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xeeDwcT51BcC&pg=PA23 | year=2009 | publisher=Indiana University Press | isbn=0-253-35271-1 | page=199}}</ref> Nonetheless, from the late 1970s, Tanzania's economy took a turn for the worse, in the context of an international economic crisis affecting both developed and developing economies.


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From the mid-1980s, the regime financed itself by borrowing from the ] and underwent some reforms. Since then, Tanzania's gross domestic product per capita has grown and poverty has been reduced.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tanzaniagateway.org/docs/Tanzania_Country_Study_Full_Case.pdf | title=Tanzania's Economic Reforms&nbsp;– and Lessons Learned |format=PDF | author=Anna Muganda | year=2004 | accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref>
In 1967, Nyerere's first presidency took a turn to the ] after the ], which codified a commitment to socialism as well as ]. After the declaration, banks and many large industries were nationalised.


Tanzania was also aligned with China, which from 1970 to 1975 financed and helped build the {{convert|1860|km|mi|adj=mid|-long}} ] from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Kapiri-Mposhi, Zambia.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jamie |last=Monson |title=Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xeeDwcT51BcC&pg=PA23 |year=2009 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-35271-2 |page=199}}</ref> Nonetheless, from the late 1970s, Tanzania's economy took a turn for the worse, in the context of an international economic crisis affecting both developed and developing economies.
In 1992, the ] was amended to allow multiple political parties.<ref>. ''princeton.edu''.</ref> In Tanzania's first multi-party elections, held in 1995, the ruling ] won 186 of the 232 elected seats in the National Assembly, and ] was elected as president.<ref>. ''eisa.org.za''.</ref>

In 1978, the neighbouring Uganda, under the leadership of Idi Amin, ]. This disastrous invasion would culminate in Tanzania invading Uganda with the aid of Ugandan rebels and deposing Idi Amin as a result. However, the war severely damaged Tanzania's economy.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

Through the 1980s, conservation oriented national parks such as ] and ], with ] as the tallest freestanding summit on Earth, were included on the ].

From the mid-1980s, the regime financed itself by borrowing from the ] and underwent some reforms. Since then, Tanzania's gross domestic product per capita has grown and poverty has been reduced, according to a report by the World Bank.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tanzaniagateway.org/docs/Tanzania_Country_Study_Full_Case.pdf |title=Tanzania's Economic Reforms&nbsp;– and Lessons Learned |first=Anna |last=Muganda |year=2004 |access-date=19 February 2014 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215310/http://www.tanzaniagateway.org/docs/Tanzania_Country_Study_Full_Case.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1992, the ] was amended to allow multiple political parties.<ref>. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018235838/http://www.princeton.edu/~pcwcr/reports/tanzania1992.html |date=18 October 2014}}. ''princeton.edu''.</ref> In Tanzania's first multi-party elections, held in 1995, the ruling ] won 186 of the 232 elected seats in the National Assembly, and ] was elected as president.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.content.eisa.org.za/old-page/tanzania-1995-national-assembly-election-results|title=Tanzania: 1995 National Assembly election results.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318222841/http://www.content.eisa.org.za/old-page/tanzania-1995-national-assembly-election-results|archive-date=18 March 2015}}</ref>

The presidents of Tanzania since Independence have been ] 1962–1985, ] 1985–1995, ] 1995–2005, ] 2005–2015, ] 2015–2021, and ] since 2021.<ref>{{cite web|title=Presidents Of Tanzania Since Independence|url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/presidents-of-tanzania-since-independence.html|access-date=2021-06-02|website=WorldAtlas|date=25 April 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> After the long tenure of president Nyerere, the Constitution has a term limit: a president can serve a maximum of two terms. Each term is five years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mgoya: Why I want presidential term limit scrapped in Tanzania|url=https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/mgoya-why-i-want-presidential-term-limit-scrapped-in-tanzania-1427938|access-date=2021-06-02|website=The East African|date=6 July 2020|language=en}}</ref> Every president has represented the ruling party ] (CCM).<ref name="cfr.org">{{cite web|title=Magufuli is Transforming Tanzania's Ruling Party From a 'Benign Hegemon' Into a Malevolent One|url=https://www.cfr.org/blog/magufuli-transforming-tanzanias-ruling-party-benign-hegemon-malevolent-one|access-date=2021-06-02|website=Council on Foreign Relations|language=en}}</ref> President Magufuli won a landslide victory and re-election in October 2020. According to the opposition, the ] was full of fraud and irregularities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Magufuli wins re-election in Tanzania; opposition cries foul|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/30/magufuli-wins-re-election-in-tanzania-says-electoral-commission|access-date=2021-06-02|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en}}</ref>

On 17 March 2021, President ] died in office.<ref>{{cite web|date=18 March 2021|title=John Magufuli: Tanzania's president dies aged 61|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56437852|access-date=18 March 2021|website=BBC News}}</ref> Magufuli's vice president, ], became Tanzania's first female president.<ref name=":7">{{cite web|date=18 March 2021|title=Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes President following death of John Magufuli|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56444575|access-date=18 March 2021|website=BBC News}}</ref>


==Geography== ==Geography==
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At {{convert|947303|km2|mi2}},<ref name="BFF"></ref> Tanzania is the 13th largest country in Africa and the 31st largest in the world, ranked between the larger Egypt and smaller Nigeria.<ref name="Size">{{cite web | url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2147rank.html | title=CIA&nbsp;– The World Factbook&nbsp;– Rank Order&nbsp;– Area | publisher=Cia.gov | accessdate=16 October 2014}}</ref> It borders ] and ] to the north; ], ], and the ] to the west; and ], ], and ] to the south. Tanzania is located on the eastern coast of Africa and has an ] coastline approximately {{convert|800|km|mi}} long.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1245}} It also incorporates several offshore islands, including ] (Zanzibar), ], and ].<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1245}} The country is the site of Africa's highest and lowest points: ], at {{convert|5,895|m|ft}} above sea level, and the floor of ], at {{convert|352|m|ft}} below sea level, respectively.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1245}} At {{convert|947403|km2|mi2}},<ref name="BFF">{{cite web|url=http://www.nbs.go.tz/nbs/takwimu/Statistical_Methods_and_Standards/Basic_Facts_and_Figures_on_Human_Settlements_2012_Tanzania_Mainland.zip|title="Basic Facts and Figures on Human Settlements, 2012", National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania Ministry of Finance, 2013, page 1. Retrieved 10 November 2014}}</ref> Tanzania is the 13th largest country in Africa and the 31st largest in the world, ranked between the larger Egypt and smaller Nigeria.<ref name="Size">{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2147rank.html |title=CIA&nbsp;– The World Factbook&nbsp;– Rank Order&nbsp;– Area |publisher=Cia.gov |access-date=16 October 2014 |archive-date=9 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209041128/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2147rank.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> It borders Kenya and Uganda to the north; Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. Tanzania is located on the eastern coast of Africa and has an Indian Ocean coastline approximately {{convert|1424|km|mi}} long.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0477e/a0477e13.htm|title=Country review: United Republic of Tanzania|date=December 2003|website=Fisheries and Aquaculture Depart, United Nations. (FAO)}}</ref> It also incorporates several offshore islands, including ] (Zanzibar), ], and ].<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1245}} The country is the site of Africa's highest and lowest points: ], at {{convert|5895|m|ft}} above sea level, and the floor of ], at {{convert|1471|m|ft}} below sea level, respectively.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1245}}


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Tanzania is mountainous and densely forested in the northeast, where Mount Kilimanjaro is located. Three of ] are partly within Tanzania. To the north and west lie ], Africa's largest lake, and Lake Tanganyika, the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish. To the southwest lies ]. Central Tanzania is a large plateau, with plains and arable land. The eastern shore is hot and humid, with the ] just offshore.
Tanzania is mountainous and densely forested in the northeast, where Mount Kilimanjaro is located. Three of ] are partly within Tanzania. To the north and west lie ], Africa's largest lake, and ], the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish. To the southwest lies ]. Central Tanzania is a large plateau, with plains and arable land. The eastern shore is hot and humid, with the ] just offshore.


The ] water falls in the southwestern region of ] are the second highest uninterrupted fall in Africa and are located near the southeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika on the border with Zambia.<ref>. ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.</ref> The ] is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area. ] in the southwestern region of ] is the second highest uninterrupted waterfall in Africa, and is located near the southeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika on the border with Zambia.<ref name="Kalambo Falls"/> The ] is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area.


===Climate=== ===Climate===
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Climate varies greatly within Tanzania. In the highlands, temperatures range between {{convert|10|and|20|C|F}} during cold and hot seasons respectively. The rest of the country has temperatures rarely falling lower than {{convert|20|C}}. The hottest period extends between November and February ({{convert|25|-|31|C|F|1|disp=or}}) while the coldest period occurs between May and August ({{convert|15|-|20|C|F|disp=or}}). Annual temperature is {{convert|20|°C|°F|1}}. The climate is cool in high mountainous regions. Climate varies greatly within Tanzania. In the highlands, temperatures range between {{convert|10|and|20|C|F}} during cold and hot seasons respectively. The rest of the country has temperatures rarely falling lower than {{convert|20|C}}. The hottest period extends between November and February ({{convert|25|-|31|C|F|1|disp=or}}) while the coldest period occurs between May and August ({{convert|15|-|20|C|F|disp=or}}). Annual temperature is {{convert|20|°C|°F|1}}. The climate is cool in high mountainous regions.


Tanzania has two major rainfall regimes: one is uni-modal (October–April) and the other is bi-modal (October–December and March–May).<ref name=rain/> The former is experienced in southern, central, and western parts of the country, and the latter is found in the north from ] extending east to the coast.<ref name=rain/> The bi-modal regime is caused by the seasonal migration of the ].<ref name=rain>{{cite journal | url=http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2002/20/c020p031.pdf | title=Rainfall variability in Northern Tanzania in the March–May season (long rains) and its links to large-scale climate forcing | format=PDF | journal=Climate Research | volume=20 | pages=31–40 | author=Zorita, Eduardo | author2=Tilya, Faustine F. | publisher=Inter-Research Science Center | date=12 February 2002 | accessdate=16 October 2014 | doi=10.3354/cr020031}}</ref> Tanzania has two major rainfall periods: one is ] (October–April) and the other is bi-modal (October–December and March–May).<ref name=rain/> The former is experienced in southern, central, and western parts of the country, and the latter is found in the north from ] extending east to the coast.<ref name=rain/> The bi-modal rainfall is caused by the seasonal migration of the ].<ref name=rain>{{cite journal |url=https://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2002/20/c020p031.pdf |title=Rainfall variability in Northern Tanzania in the March–May season (long rains) and its links to large-scale climate forcing |journal=Climate Research |volume=20 |pages=31–40 |author=Zorita, Eduardo |author2=Tilya, Faustine F.| date=12 February 2002 |access-date=16 October 2014 |doi=10.3354/cr020031| bibcode=2002ClRes..20...31Z |doi-access=free}}</ref>

] is resulting in rising temperatures with a higher likelihood of intense rainfall events (resulting in flooding) and of dry spells (resulting in droughts).<ref>{{cite web|title=Tanzania|url=https://www.climatelinks.org/countries/tanzania|access-date=27 November 2020|website=Climatelinks|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Future Climate for Africa|year=2017|title=Future Climate Projections for Tanzania|url=https://futureclimateafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/fcfa_tanzania_climatebrief_web.pdf|website=Future Climate for Africa}}</ref> ] is already impacting the sectors in Tanzania of agriculture, water resources, health and energy. Sea level rise and changes in the quality of water are expected to impact fisheries and aquaculture.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tanzania {{!}} UNDP Climate Change Adaptation|url=https://www.adaptation-undp.org/explore/eastern-africa/united-republic-tanzania|access-date=27 November 2020|website=www.adaptation-undp.org|language=en}}</ref>

Tanzania produced a ] (NAPAs) in 2007 as mandated by the ]. In 2012, Tanzania produced a National Climate Change Strategy in response to the growing concern of the negative impacts of climate change and climate variability on the country's social, economic and physical environment.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tanzania: National climate change strategy - National Policy, Plans & Statements - PreventionWeb.net|url=https://www.preventionweb.net/english/policies/v.php?id=59982&cid=0|access-date=27 November 2020|website=preventionweb.net|archive-date=17 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417211255/https://www.preventionweb.net/english/policies/v.php?id=59982&cid=0|url-status=dead}}</ref>


===Wildlife and conservation=== ===Wildlife and conservation===
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{{See also|List of protected areas of Tanzania}}
Approximately 38% of Tanzania's land area is set aside in protected areas for conservation.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Laher, Ridwan|author2=SingíOei, Korir|title=Indigenous People in Africa.: Contestations, Empowerment and Group Rights|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZiyAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA57|date=2014|publisher=Africa Institute of South Africa|isbn=978-0-7983-0464-1|pages=57–}}</ref> Tanzania has 16 national parks,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tanzaniaparks.com/ | title=Home | publisher=Tanzania National Parks | accessdate=16 October 2014}}</ref> plus a variety of game and forest reserves, including the ]. In western Tanzania, ] is the site of ]'s ongoing study of ] behaviour, which started in 1960.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tanzaniaparks.com/gombe.html | title=Gombe Stream National Park | publisher=Tanzania National Parks | accessdate=16 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Laura Riley|author2=William Riley|title=Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icMuBQhW4vgC|date= 2005|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-691-12219-9}}</ref>
] is Tanzania's national animal.]]
Tanzania contains around 20% of the species of Africa's enormous warm-blooded animal populace, found over its 21 National parks, reserves, 1 conservation area, and 3 marine parks. Spread over a zone of in excess of 42,000 square kilometres (16,000 sq. mi) and shaping around 38% of the nation's area.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Ridwan |last1=Laher |first2=Korir |last2=SingíOei |title=Indigenous People in Africa.: Contestations, Empowerment and Group Rights |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZiyAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 |date=2014 |publisher=Africa Institute of South Africa |isbn=978-0-7983-0464-1 |page=57}}</ref> Tanzania has 21 national parks,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tanzaniaparks.com/ |title=Home |publisher=Tanzania National Parks |access-date=16 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006085600/http://www.tanzaniaparks.com/ |archive-date=6 October 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> plus a variety of game and forest reserves, including the ], however the local human population still has an impact on the environment. In western Tanzania, ] is the site of ]'s ongoing study of ] behaviour, which started in 1960.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tanzaniaparks.com/gombe.html |title=Gombe Stream National Park |publisher=Tanzania National Parks |access-date=16 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004004545/http://www.tanzaniaparks.com/gombe.html |archive-date=4 October 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Laura |last1=Riley |first2=William |last2=Riley |title=Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_icMuBQhW4vgC |date= 2005 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-12219-9}}</ref>


Tanzania is highly biodiverse and contains a wide variety of animal habitats.<ref>{{cite book|author1=S. N. Stuart|author2=Martin Jenkins|title=Biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and Its Islands: Conservation, Management, and Sustainable Use|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGyrXpCbTX4C&pg=PA204|date=1990|publisher=IUCN|isbn=978-2-8317-0021-2|pages=204–}}</ref> On Tanzania's ] plain, white-bearded ] (Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi) and other ]s participate in a large-scale annual migration. Tanzania is also home to about 130 amphibian and over 275 reptile species, many of them strictly endemic and included in the ]'s Red Lists of different countries.<ref>Edoarado Razzetti and Charles Andekia Msuya (2002) , ''Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Arusha National Park''. Tanzania National Parks. p. 11</ref> Tanzania has developed a ] to address species conservation.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} Tanzania is highly ] and contains a wide variety of animal habitats.<ref>{{cite book |author1=S. N. Stuart |first2=Martin |last2=Jenkins |title=Biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and Its Islands: Conservation, Management, and Sustainable Use |url=https://archive.org/details/biodiversityinsu0000stua |url-access=registration |date=1990 |publisher=IUCN |isbn=978-2-8317-0021-2 |page=}}</ref> On Tanzania's ] plain, white-bearded ] (''Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi''), other ]s and zebra<ref>{{cite web |title=Serengeti wildebeest migration |url=https://www.expertafrica.com/tanzania/info/serengeti-wildebeest-migration |access-date=20 March 2019}}</ref> participate in a large-scale annual migration. Tanzania is home to about 130 ] and over 275 reptile species, many of them strictly ] and included in the ]'s Red Lists of countries.<ref>Edoarado Razzetti and Charles Andekia Msuya (2002) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716094052/http://www-3.unipv.it/webshi/images/files/tanzie2002.pdf |date=16 July 2020}}, ''Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Arusha National Park''. Tanzania National Parks. p. 11</ref> Tanzania has the largest lion population in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/201908120146.html|title=Africa: Tanzania Has Largest Number of Lions in Africa, New Report Says|first=Edward Qorro in|last=Arusha|date=12 August 2019|website=allAfrica.com}}</ref>

Tanzania had a 2019 ] mean score of 7.13/10, ranking it 54th globally out of 172 countries.<ref name="FLII-Supplementary">{{cite journal|last1=Grantham|first1=H. S.|last2=Duncan|first2=A.|last3=Evans|first3=T. D.|last4=Jones|first4=K. R.|last5=Beyer|first5=H. L.|last6=Schuster|first6=R.|last7=Walston|first7=J.|last8=Ray|first8=J. C.|last9=Robinson|first9=J. G.|last10=Callow|first10=M.|last11=Clements|first11=T.|last12=Costa|first12=H. M.|last13=DeGemmis|first13=A.|last14=Elsen|first14=P. R.|last15=Ervin|first15=J.|last16=Franco|first16=P.|last17=Goldman|first17=E.|last18=Goetz|first18=S.|last19=Hansen|first19=A.|last20=Hofsvang|first20=E.|last21=Jantz|first21=P.|last22=Jupiter|first22=S.|last23=Kang|first23=A.|last24=Langhammer|first24=P.|last25=Laurance|first25=W. F.|last26=Lieberman|first26=S.|last27=Linkie|first27=M.|last28=Malhi|first28=Y.|last29=Maxwell|first29=S.|last30=Mendez|first30=M.|last31=Mittermeier|first31=R.|last32=Murray|first32=N. J.|last33=Possingham|first33=H.|last34=Radachowsky|first34=J.|last35=Saatchi|first35=S.|last36=Samper|first36=C.|last37=Silverman|first37=J.|last38=Shapiro|first38=A.|last39=Strassburg|first39=B.|last40=Stevens|first40=T.|last41=Stokes|first41=E.|last42=Taylor|first42=R.|last43=Tear|first43=T.|last44=Tizard|first44=R.|last45=Venter|first45=O.|last46=Visconti|first46=P.|last47=Wang|first47=S.|last48=Watson|first48=J. E. M.|display-authors=1|title=Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity – Supplementary Material|journal=Nature Communications|volume=11|issue=1|year=2020|page=5978|issn=2041-1723|doi=10.1038/s41467-020-19493-3|pmid=33293507|pmc=7723057|bibcode=2020NatCo..11.5978G |doi-access=free}}</ref>


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===Government=== ===Government===
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Tanzania is a ] with the ] (CCM) party in power. From its formation until 1992, it was the only legally permitted party in the country. This changed on 1 July 1992, when the constitution was amended.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 3}} It has held power since independence in 1961, and is the longest-serving ruling party in Africa.<ref name="cfr.org"/>
] shares a light moment with PM ]]]


] won the October 2015 presidential election and secured a two-thirds majority in parliament.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tanzania's ruling party secures the presidency and a two-thirds majority in parliament |url=https://qz.com/536317/tanzanias-ruling-party-secures-the-presidency-and-a-two-thirds-it.majority-in-parliament/ |work=Quartz |date=29 October 2015 |access-date=30 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-10-29|title=Tanzania poll: John Magufuli of CCM defeats Edward Lowassa|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34669468|access-date=2021-06-02}}</ref> The main opposition party in Tanzania since multiparty politics in 1992 is called ] (] for "Party for Democracy and Progress"). The leader of Chadema party is ].<ref>{{cite news |date=2020-11-02 |title=Tanzania police arrest main opposition party leader ahead of protests |website=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/africa/tanzania-opposition-leader-arrest-intl/index.html |access-date=2021-06-02}}</ref>
Tanzania is a ] with the ] (CCM) party in power. From its formation until 1992, it was the only legally permitted party in the country. This changed on 1 July 1992, when amendments to the Constitution<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 3}} and a number of laws permitting and regulating the formation and operations of more than one political party were enacted by the National Assembly.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} Elections for president and all National Assembly seats were last held in ].{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} The CCM holds approximately 75% of the seats in the assembly.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}

In ], the country's semi-autonomous state, ] (ACT-Wazalendo) is considered the main opposition political party. The constitution of Zanzibar requires the party that comes in second in the polls to join a coalition with the winning party. ACT-Wazalendo joined a coalition government with the islands' ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi in December 2020 after Zanzibar disputed ].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/constitutions-tanzania-elections-africa-dar-es-salaam-316350ec78b5299743309ebca78ba889 |title=Zanzibar's opposition party to join coalition government |last=Sultan |first=Ali |work=Associated Press |date=6 December 2020 |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref>

In November 2020, Magufuli once again was declared the winner for his second term as president. Election fraud was suspected. The national electoral commission announced that Magufuli received 84%, or about 12.5 million votes and the top opposition candidate, ] received 13%, about 1.9&nbsp;million votes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54759865 |title=Tanzania elections: Main opposition parties demand fresh vote |work=BBC News |date=31 October 2020 |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref>

In March 2021, it was announced that Magufuli had died whilst serving in office, meaning that his vice president, ], became the country's president.<ref name=":7" />


===Executive=== ===Executive===
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The ] and the ] are elected concurrently by direct popular vote for five-year terms.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 42(2)}} The ] is elected for a five-year term at the same time as the president and on the same ticket.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§§ 47(2), 50(1)}} Neither the president nor the vice-president may be a member of the National Assembly.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 66(2)}} The president appoints a ], subject to confirmation by the assembly, to serve as the government's leader in the assembly.<ref name="Constitution">{{cite web | url=http://www.judiciary.go.tz/downloads/constitution.pdf | title=Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania | format=PDF | publisher=Judiciary of Tanzania | accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref>{{rp|§§ 51(1)-(2), 52(2)}} The president selects his or her ] from assembly members.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 55}}
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The ] and the ] are elected concurrently by direct popular vote for five-year terms.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 42(2)}} The ] is elected for a five-year term at the same time as the president and on the same ticket.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§§ 47(2), 50(1)}} Neither the president nor the vice-president may be a member of the National Assembly.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 66(2)}} The president appoints a ] from among the members of the National Assembly, subject to confirmation by the assembly, to serve as the government's leader in the assembly.<ref name="Constitution">{{cite web |url=https://www.judiciary.go.tz/downloads/constitution.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217023916/http://www.judiciary.go.tz/downloads/constitution.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 December 2010 |title=Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania |publisher=Judiciary of Tanzania |access-date=19 February 2014}}</ref>{{rp|§§ 51(1)-(2), 52(2)}} The president selects her ] from assembly members.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 55}} ] is under the executive branch of government and is administered by the Tanzania Police Force.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://apcof.org/country-data-2/tanzania/ |title=Tanzania Police Force |publisher=African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum |access-date=5 February 2023 |archive-date=2 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202170416/https://apcof.org/country-data-2/tanzania/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>


===Legislature=== ===Legislature===
All legislative power relating to mainland Tanzania and union matters is vested in the ],<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 64(1)}} which is unicameral and has a maximum of 357 members.<ref name="Edge"/> These include members elected to represent constituencies, the attorney general, five members elected by the ] house of representatives from among its own members, the special women's seats that constitute at least 30% of the seats that any party has in the assembly, the speaker of the assembly (if not otherwise a member of the assembly), and the persons (not more than ten) appointed by the president.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 66(1)}} The Tanzania Electoral Commission demarcates the mainland into constituencies in the number determined by the commission with the consent of the president.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 75}} All ] power relating to mainland Tanzania and union matters is vested in the ],<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 64(1)}} which is unicameral and has 393 members.<ref name="Edge"/> These include members elected to represent constituencies, the attorney general, five members elected by the ] house of representatives from among its own members, the special women's seats that constitute at least 30% of the seats that any party has in the assembly, the speaker of the assembly (if not otherwise a member of the assembly), and the persons (not more than ten) appointed by the president.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 66(1)}} The Tanzania Electoral Commission demarcates the mainland into constituencies in the number determined by the commission with the consent of the president.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 75}}


===Judiciary=== ===Judiciary===
{{See also|Chief Justice of Tanzania}}
Tanzania's legal system is based on English ].<ref name="TZ court system"/> Tanzania's legal system is based on English ].<ref name="TZ court system"/>
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Tanzania has a four-level judiciary.<ref name="TZ court system"/> The lowest level courts on the Tanzanian mainland are the Primary Courts.<ref name="TZ court system"/> In Zanzibar, the lowest level courts are the Kadhi's Courts for Islamic family matters and the Primary Courts for all other cases.<ref name="TZ court system"/> On the mainland, appeal is to either the District Courts or the Resident Magistrates Courts.<ref name="TZ court system"/> In Zanzibar, appeal is to the Kadhi's Appeal Courts for Islamic family matters and the Magistrates Courts for all other cases.<ref name="TZ court system"/> From there, appeal is to the ].<ref name="TZ court system"/> No appeal regarding Islamic family matters can be made from the High Court of Zanzibar.<ref name="TZ court system"/><ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 99(1)}} Otherwise, the final appeal is to the Court of Appeal of Tanzania.<ref name="TZ court system">{{cite web | url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Tanzania1.htm#_The_Judiciary | title=UPDATE: Guide to Tanzanian Legal System and Legal Research | authors=Christabel Manning and Seka Kasera | publisher=GlobaLex | accessdate=16 October 2014}}</ref> Tanzania has a four-level judiciary.<ref name="TZ court system"/> The lowest-level courts on the Tanzanian mainland are the Primary Courts.<ref name="TZ court system"/> In Zanzibar, the lowest-level courts are the Kadhi's Courts for Islamic family matters and the Primary Courts for all other cases.<ref name="TZ court system"/> On the mainland, appeal is to either the District Courts or the Resident Magistrates Courts.<ref name="TZ court system"/> In Zanzibar, appeal is to the Kadhi's Appeal Courts for Islamic family matters and the Magistrates Courts for all other cases.<ref name="TZ court system"/> From there, appeal is to the ].<ref name="TZ court system"/> No appeal regarding Islamic family matters can be made from the High Court of Zanzibar.<ref name="TZ court system"/><ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 99(1)}} Otherwise, the final appeal is to the Court of Appeal of Tanzania.<ref name="TZ court system">{{cite web|url=https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Tanzania1.html#_The_Judiciary |title=UPDATE: Tanzanian Legal System and Legal Research |first1=Christabel |last1=Manning |first2=Seka |last2=Kasera |publisher=] |access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref>


The High Court of mainland Tanzania has three divisions – commercial, labour, and land<ref name="TZ court system"/> – and 15 geographic zones.<ref></ref> The High Court of Zanzibar has an industrial division, which hears only labour disputes.<ref>. ''judiciaryzanzibar.go.tz''.</ref> The High Court of mainland Tanzania has three divisions – commercial, labour, and land<ref name="TZ court system"/> – and 15 geographic zones.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comcourt.go.tz/comcourt/|title=Commercial Division High Court of Tanzania|access-date=17 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223142716/http://www.comcourt.go.tz/comcourt/|archive-date=23 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The High Court of Zanzibar has an industrial division, which hears only labour disputes.<ref>. ''judiciaryzanzibar.go.tz''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317235728/http://www.judiciaryzanzibar.go.tz/historical_background.php |date=17 March 2015}}</ref>


Mainland and union judges are appointed by the ],{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} except for those of the Court of Appeal and the High Court, who are appointed by the president of Tanzania.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp| §§ 109(1), 118(2)-(3)}} Mainland and union judges are appointed by the ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan023291.pdf|title=UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA Public Administration Country Profile|date=January 2004|access-date=1 February 2019|archive-date=16 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516194348/http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan023291.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> except for those of the ] and the High Court, who are appointed by the president of Tanzania.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp| §§ 109(1), 118(2)(3)}}


Tanzania is a party to the ].<ref></ref> Tanzania is a party to the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icc-cpi.int/en_menus/asp/states%20parties/african%20states/Pages/african%20states.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011143613/http://www.icc-cpi.int/en_menus/asp/states%20parties/african%20states/Pages/african%20states.aspx|url-status=dead|title=African States, State Parties to the Rome Statute, International Criminal Court. Retrieved 21 October 2014|archive-date=11 October 2014}}</ref>

===Law enforcement===
{{main|Law enforcement in Tanzania}}
Public safety and border control is the responsibility of the Tanzania Police Force. Oversight of the force is shared by the Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Police and the Inspector-General of Police.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://apcof.org/country-data-2/tanzania/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202170416/https://apcof.org/country-data-2/tanzania/ |archive-date=2 February 2023 |title=Tanzania – Tanzania Police Force |publisher=African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum |access-date=11 May 2023}}</ref>


===Zanzibar=== ===Zanzibar===
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The legislative authority in Zanzibar over all non-union matters is vested in the ] (per the Tanzania constitution)<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 106(3)}} or the Legislative Council (per the Zanzibar constitution). The legislative authority in Zanzibar over all non-union matters is vested in the ] (per the Tanzania constitution)<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 106(3)}} or the Legislative Council (per the Zanzibar constitution).


The Legislative Council has two parts: the President of Zanzibar and the House of Representatives.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 107(1)-(2)}}<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 63(1)}} The President is Zanzibar's head of government and the chairman of the Revolutionary Council, in which the executive authority of Zanzibar is invested.<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§§ 5A(2), 26(1)}} Zanzibar has two vice-presidents, with the first being from the main opposition party in the house.<ref name="Eisa">{{cite web|url=http://www.content.eisa.org.za/old-page/zanzibar-constitution |title=Zanzibar: Constitution |publisher=Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa |accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="Troubled">{{cite book|author=Markku Suksi|title=Sub-State Governance through Territorial Autonomy: A Comparative Study in Constitutional Law of Powers, Procedures and Institutions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d7UUkiwi_9cC&pg=PA467|date= 2011|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-20048-9|pages=467–}}</ref> The second is from the party in power and is the leader of government business in the House.<ref name="Troubled"/> The Legislative Council has two parts: the president of Zanzibar and the House of Representatives.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 107(1)-(2)}}<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 63(1)}} The president is Zanzibar's head of government and the chairman of the Revolutionary Council, in which the executive authority of Zanzibar is invested.<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§§ 5A(2), 26(1)}} Zanzibar has two vice-presidents, with the first being from the main opposition party in the house.<ref name="Eisa">{{cite web |url=https://www.content.eisa.org.za/old-page/zanzibar-constitution |title=Zanzibar: Constitution |publisher=Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa |access-date=19 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225003002/http://www.content.eisa.org.za/old-page/zanzibar-constitution |archive-date=25 February 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="Troubled">{{cite book |first=Markku |last=Suksi |title=Sub-State Governance through Territorial Autonomy: A Comparative Study in Constitutional Law of Powers, Procedures and Institutions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d7UUkiwi_9cC&pg=PA467 |date= 2011 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-642-20048-9 |page=467}}</ref> The second is from the party in power and is the leader of government business in the House.<ref name="Troubled"/>


The President and the members of the House of Representatives have five-year terms.<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 28(2)}} The president and the members of the House of Representatives have five-year terms and can be elected for a second term.<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 28(2)}}


The President selects ministers from members of the House of Representatives,<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 42(2)}} with the ministers allocated according to the number of House seats won by political parties.<ref name="Eisa"/> The Revolutionary Council consists of the president, both vice-presidents, all ministers, the attorney general of Zanzibar, and other house members deemed fit by the president.<ref name="Eisa"/> The president selects ministers from members of the House of Representatives,<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 42(2)}} with the ministers allocated according to the number of House seats won by political parties.<ref name="Eisa"/> The Revolutionary Council consists of the president, both vice-presidents, all ministers, the ] of Zanzibar, and other house members deemed fit by the president.<ref name="Eisa"/>


The House of Representatives is composed of elected members, ten members appointed by the president, all the regional commissioners of Zanzibar, the attorney general, and appointed female members whose number must be equal to 30% of the elected members.<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§§ 55(3), 64, 67(1)}} The House determines the number of its elected members<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution">. zltb.go.tz. 2006.</ref>{{rp|§ 120(2)}} with the Zanzibar Electoral Commission determining the boundaries of each election constituency.<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 120(1)}} In 2013, the House has a total of 81 members: fifty elected members, five regional commissioners, the attorney general, ten members appointed by the president, and fifteen appointed female members.<ref name="Edge">{{cite web|url=http://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/tanzania/government |title=Tanzania: Government |publisher=Broad College of Business, Michigan State University |accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref> The House of Representatives is composed of elected members, ten members appointed by the president, all the regional commissioners of Zanzibar, the attorney general, and appointed female members whose number must be equal to 30 per cent of the elected members.<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§§ 55(3), 64, 67(1)}} The House determines the number of its elected members<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution">. zltb.go.tz. 2006.</ref>{{rp|§ 120(2)}} with the Zanzibar Electoral Commission determining the boundaries of each election constituency.<ref name="Zanzibar Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 120(1)}} In 2013, the House had 81 members: fifty elected members, five regional commissioners, the attorney general, ten members appointed by the president, and fifteen appointed female members.<ref name="Edge">{{cite web |url=https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/tanzania/government |title=Tanzania: Government |publisher=Broad College of Business, Michigan State University |access-date=19 February 2014}}</ref>

=== Leadership in World governance initiatives ===
Tanzania has been one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Letters from Thane Read asking Helen Keller to sign the World Constitution for world peace. 1961 |url=https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK01-07-B149-F04-022.1.8 |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=Helen Keller Archive |publisher=American Foundation for the Blind}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Letter from World Constitution Coordinating Committee to Helen, enclosing current materials |url=https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK01-07-B154-F05-028.1.4 |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=Helen Keller Archive |publisher=American Foundation for the Blind}}</ref> As a result, in 1968, for the first time in human history, a ] convened to draft and adopt the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Preparing earth constitution {{!}} Global Strategies & Solutions {{!}} The Encyclopedia of World Problems |url=http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/strategy/193465 |url-status=dead |access-date=2023-07-15 |website=The Encyclopedia of World Problems {{!}} Union of International Associations (UIA) |archive-date=19 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719215501/http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/strategy/193465 }}</ref> ], then ] signed the agreement to convene a World Constituent Assembly.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Amerasinghe |first=Terence P. |title=Emerging World Law, Volume 1 |publisher=Institute for Economic Democracy |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-933567-16-7 |page=50 |language=en}}</ref>


===Administrative subdivisions=== ===Administrative subdivisions===
{{Main|Regions of Tanzania|Districts of Tanzania|Subdivisions of Tanzania}} {{Main|Regions of Tanzania|Districts of Tanzania|Subdivisions of Tanzania}}
] ]
In 1972, local government on the mainland was abolished and replaced with direct rule from the central government. Local government, however, was reintroduced in the beginning of the 1980s, when the rural councils and rural authorities were re-established. Local government elections took place in 1983, and functioning councils started in 1984. In 1999, a Local Government Reform Programme was enacted by the ], setting "a comprehensive and ambitious agenda ... four areas: political decentralization, financial decentralization, administrative decentralization and changed central-local relations, with the mainland government having overriding powers within the framework of the Constitution."<ref name="Kunnat">{{cite web|url=https://www.tampere.fi/tiedostot/5nCY6QHaV/kuntajarjestelma_tansania_.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130418081535/https://www.tampere.fi/tiedostot/5nCY6QHaV/kuntajarjestelma_tansania_.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2013|title= Local government system in tanzania|date=31 May 2006}}</ref>

In 1972, local government on the mainland was abolished and replaced with direct rule from the central government. Local government, however, was reintroduced in the beginning of the 1980s, when the rural councils and rural authorities were re-established. Local government elections took place in 1983, and functioning councils started in 1984. In 1999, a Local Government Reform Programme was enacted by the ], setting "a comprehensive and ambitious agenda ... four areas: political decentralization, financial decentralization, administrative decentralization and changed central-local relations, with the mainland government having over-riding powers within the framework of the Constitution."<ref name="Kunnat"></ref>


Tanzania is divided into thirty ] (mkoa), twenty-five on the mainland and five in ] (three on ], two on ]).<ref>. tanzania.go.tz</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201203090225.html | title=Tanzania: State Gazettes New Regions, Districts | publisher=AllAfrica | date=9 March 2012 }}</ref> 169 ] (wilaya), also known as local government authorities, have been created. Of the 169 districts, 34 are urban units, which are further classified as three city councils (], ], and ]), nineteen municipal councils, and twelve town councils.<ref name="2012 census"></ref> Tanzania is divided into thirty-one ] (''mikoa''),<ref>{{cite news |last=Kilyinga |first=Nasongelya |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201507100264.html |title=Enter Songwe Region as Six Districts Created |date=10 July 2015 |newspaper=] |access-date=21 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Mwakyusa |first=Alvar |url=http://dailynews.co.tz/index.php/home-news/46650-songwe-is-new-region-with-four-districts |title=Songwe is new region – with four districts |date=4 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205094519/http://dailynews.co.tz/index.php/home-news/46650-songwe-is-new-region-with-four-districts |archive-date=5 February 2016 |newspaper=Daily News |access-date=21 February 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> twenty-six on the mainland and five in ] (three on ], two on ]).<ref>. tanzania.go.tz</ref> The thirty-one regions are divided into 195 ] (''wilaya''), also known as local government authorities. Of those districts, 45 are urban units, which are further classified as three city councils (], ], and ]), twenty municipal councils, and twenty-two town councils.<ref name="Census 2012">{{cite web |title=Administrative Units: Population Distribution Report |url=https://www.nbs.go.tz/nbs/takwimu/Census2022/Administrative_units_Population_Distribution_Report_Tanzania_volume1a.pdf |accessdate=2 August 2024 |website=National Bureau of Statistics}}</ref>


The urban units have an autonomous city, municipal, or town council and are subdivided into wards and ''mtaa''. The non-urban units have an autonomous district council but are subdivided into village councils or township authorities (first level) and then into ''vitongoji''.<ref name="Kunnat"/> The urban units have an autonomous city, municipal, or town council and are subdivided into wards and sub-wards (''mitaa)''. The non-urban units have an autonomous district council but are subdivided into village councils or township authorities (first level) and then into hamlets (''vitongoji)''.<ref name="Kunnat"/>


The city of Dar es Salaam is unique because it has a city council whose areal jurisdiction overlaps three municipal councils. The mayor of the city council is elected by that council. The twenty-member city council is composed of eleven persons elected by the municipal councils, seven members of the National Assembly, and "Nominated members of parliament under 'Special Seats' for women". Each municipal council also has a mayor. "The City Council performs a coordinating role and attends to issues cutting across the three municipalities", including security and emergency services.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131122230207/http://www.dcc.go.tz/about-us/city-status.html |title=City Status |publisher=Dar Es Salaam City Council }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://polis.parliament.go.tz/PAMS/docs/6-1999.pdf |title=Local Government (Urban Authorities) Act, 1982, amended 1999 |at=7A and 69A |format=PDF |publisher=Parliamentary On-line Information System |year=1999 |accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref> The city of Dar es Salaam is unique because it has a city council whose area of jurisdiction overlaps three municipal councils. The mayor of the city council is elected by that council. The twenty-member city council is composed of eleven persons elected by the municipal councils, seven members of the National Assembly, and "Nominated members of parliament under 'Special Seats' for women". Each municipal council also has a mayor. "The City Council performs a coordinating role and attends to issues cutting across the three municipalities", including security and emergency services.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dcc.go.tz/about-us/city-status.html |title=City Status |publisher=Dar Es Salaam City Council |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131122230207/http://www.dcc.go.tz/about-us/city-status.html |archive-date=22 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://polis.parliament.go.tz/PAMS/docs/6-1999.pdf |title=Local Government (Urban Authorities) Act, 1982, amended 1999 |at=7A and 69A |publisher=Parliamentary On-line Information System |year=1999 |access-date=19 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022045450/http://polis.parliament.go.tz/PAMS/docs/6-1999.pdf |archive-date=22 October 2013}}</ref> The city of Mwanza has a city council whose areal jurisdiction overlaps two municipal councils.


===Foreign relations=== ===Foreign policies and partnerships===
{{Main|Foreign relations of Tanzania}} {{Main|Foreign relations of Tanzania}}
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Foreign policies of Tanzania are in process of review to replace the current New Foreign Policy of 2001, which was the first official foreign policy of Tanzania.<ref name="FaMinistry_NFP2">{{Cite report |url=https://www.foreign.go.tz/index.php/resources/view/nje-bulletin-april-2021 |title=Tanzania, kufanya mageuzi ya Kidiplomasia |last1=Buhohela |first1=Emmanuel |last2=Bulu |first2=Sheiba |date=2021-04-01 |publisher=] |issue=1 |location=] |language=sw |access-date=2022-06-21 |trans-title=In Tanzania, to carry out Diplomatic reforms}}</ref><ref name="Citizen_22">{{Cite news |last=Kanyabwoya |first=Damas |date=13 January 2022 |title=Tanzania's key focus areas in the new Foreign Policy. |language=English |work=The Citizen |location=] |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE |access-date=21 June 2022}}</ref> Before 2001, Tanzanian foreign policy was dictated by the various presidential declarations of Mwalimu Nyerere specifically Circular No. 2 of 1964,<ref name="FaMinistry_about">{{Cite web |title=ABOUT THE MINISTRY |url=https://www.foreign.go.tz/index.php/about/about-the-ministry |access-date=21 June 2022 |website=The United Republic of Tanzania Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation |location=] |language=en, sw}}</ref> ],<ref name="Nyerere_67ad">{{Cite book |last=Nyerere |first=Julius K |url=https://library.fes.de/fulltext/bibliothek/2-tanzania-s0019634.pdf |title=The Arusha Declaration and Tanu's policy on socialism and self-reliance |date=1967 |publisher=] |edition=1 |location=] |language=en |chapter=The Policy of Self-Reliance |author-link=Julius Nyerere |access-date=21 June 2022}}</ref> and Policy of Foreign Affairs of 1967.<ref name="Nyerere_67fa">{{Cite speech |last=Nyerere |first=Julius K. |author-link=Julius Nyerere |event=Tanganyika African National Union National Conference |location=Dar es Salaam |date=1967-10-16 |title=Tanzania policy on foreign affairs |type=Presidential Address |publisher=Ministry of Information and Tourism |url=https://www.juliusnyerere.org/uploads/tanzania_policy_on_foreign_affairs_1967.pdf}}</ref> These declarations had focused foreign policy primarily on independence and sovereignty, human rights, and African unity.<ref name="Nzomo_99">{{Cite book |last=Nzomo |first=Maria |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429502521-10/foreign-policy-tanzania-cold-war-post%E2%80%93cold-war-maria-nzomo |title=African Foreign Policies |date=1999 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-50252-1 |editor-last=Wright |editor-first=Stephen |location=] |pages=184–187 |chapter=The Foreign Policy of Tanzania: From Cold War to Post–Cold War|doi=10.4324/9780429502521-10|s2cid=155717453 }}</ref><ref name="Magoma_20">{{Cite thesis |last=MAGOMA |first=Suleiman Masegesa |title=The Significant role of Tanzania's diplomacy towards economic development |date=2020-02-22 |degree=Public Policy |publisher=] |url=https://archives.kdischool.ac.kr/handle/11125/34174 |place=] |language=en}}</ref> The current New Foreign Policy of 2001 was established to better address the end of colonialism and the cold war, globalization, market economics and liberalization, and the multi-party state of Tanzania. Its primary focus is economic diplomacy and development.<ref name="FaMinistry_FP">{{Cite web |title=Tanzania Foreign Policy the Case of Economic Diplomacy |url=https://www.foreign.go.tz/index.php/about/tanzania-foreign-policy-the-case-of-economic-diplomacy |access-date=21 June 2022 |website=The United Republic of Tanzania Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation |location=] |language=en, sw}}</ref>
;Bilateral relations
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Apart from its border dispute with Malawi, Tanzania had cordial relations with its neighbours in 2012.<ref name=year>{{cite book|author1=Andreas Mehler|author2=Henning Melber|author3=Klaas van Walraven|title=Africa Yearbook Volume 9: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Af9AAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA410|date=2013|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-25600-2|pages=410–}}</ref>


New Foreign Policy of 2001, which is still used today, has a foundation of 7 principles; ], ], ], ], ], ], and ] for economic development and peace.<ref name="FaMinistry_NFP">{{Cite act |year=2001 |type=Foreign Policy |legislature=Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation |title=The New Foreign Policy |language=en |url=https://en.unesco.org/creativity/sites/creativity/files/qpr/new_foreign_policy_-_2001.pdf}}</ref> The primary objectives are outlined as the protection and promotion of cultural and economic interests, establishment of relations with other nations driven by economic interest, economic self-sufficiency, internal and global peace, and regional political and economic integration.<ref name="FaMinistry_FP" /><ref name="FaMinistry_NFP" />
] have been tense because of a ] over the countries' ] (Lake Malawi) border. An unsuccessful mediation regarding this issue took place in March 2014.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1250}}<ref name=year/><ref>{{cite news | title=Tanzania: After Two Days, No Agreement Over Lake Niassa | url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201403230009.html | publisher=] | date=22 March 2014}}</ref> The two countries agreed in 2013 to ask the ] (ICJ) to resolve the dispute should mediation be unsuccessful.<ref>. tvcnews.tv.</ref> ], but not Tanzania, has accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ.<ref>. icj-cij.org.</ref>


A review of current foreign policy is being undertaken by the sixth phase government to replace the current New Foreign Policy of 2001.<ref name="FaMinistry_NFP2" /> Foreign Affairs Minister ] has stated the new policies will maintain the priority of and non-alignment of the 2001 policy while making additional top priorities the climate change and refocusing economic diplomacy with a greater focus on value-added exports and the digital economy.<ref name="Citizen_22" />
] deteriorated in 2013 when Tanzanian President ] said that if the ] (DRC) could negotiate with some of its enemies, Rwanda should be able to do the same.<ref>Peter Fabricius (27 May 2013). . ''Independent Online''.</ref> Rwandan President ] then expressed "contempt" for Kikwete's statement.<ref>. theeastafrican.co.ke.</ref> The tension was renewed in May 2014 when, in a speech to the Tanzanian ], Foreign Affairs Minister ] renewed his claim that Rwandans were causing instability in the DRC. Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister ] responded, "As for Tanzania's foreign minister whose anti-Rwanda rant in parliament I heard, he would benefit from a lesson in the history of the region."<ref>. theeastafrican.co.ke. 31 May 2014</ref>


==== International partnerships ====
] have strengthened in recent years as trade between the two countries and Chinese investment in Tanzanian infrastructure have increased rapidly.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1250}}<ref>{{cite news | title=China's investment in Tanzania surges | url=http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/Business/China-s-investment-in-Tanzania-surges/-/1840414/2208290/-/y5lurxz/-/index.html | accessdate=16 October 2014 | work=] | agency=] | date=15 February 2014}}</ref>
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Tanzania is a member of many international organizations such as the ], ], ], and ] among many others.<ref name="Hirschler_19">{{Cite book |last1=Hirschler |first1=Kurt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ncCnDwAAQBAJ |title=A decade of Tanzania: politics, economy and society 2005-2017 |last2=Hofmeier |first2=Rolf |date=2019 |publisher=] |isbn=978-90-04-40786-2 |location=], ] |language=en}}</ref> Additionally, due to the strength of Tanzania's non-alignment, unity and internal peace since independence, Tanzania frequently acts as a mediator and location of treaties and agreements between other nations, such as the ] with Europe, as well as the Arusha Accords with ] and ].<ref name="Chachage_04">{{Cite journal |last=Chachage |first=Chambi S. |date=2004 |title=Nyerere: Nationalism and Post-Colonial Developmentalism |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24487453 |journal=] |language=en |location=] |publisher=] |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=158–179 |jstor=24487453 |issn=1027-4332 |access-date=21 June 2022}}</ref><ref name="Waters_06">{{Cite journal |last=Waters |first=Tony |date=2006 |title=Markets and Morality: American Relations with Tanzania |url=https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/files/Waters-Vol8Issue3.pdf |journal=] |language=en |location=] |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=46–53 |access-date=21 June 2022 |archive-date=4 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804103025/http://asq.africa.ufl.edu/files/Waters-Vol8Issue3.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
] are warm, with President ] ] in 2013.<ref>{{cite web | title=U.S. Relations With Tanzania | url=http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2843.htm | publisher=] | accessdate=9 July 2014}}</ref><ref name=cnn>{{cite news | author1=Gabriella Schwarz | author2=Jessica Yellin | title=Obama in Tanzania, sees Africa as next global economic success | url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/world/africa/tanzania-obama/ | publisher=] | date=1 July 2013}}</ref>


The United Nations has a large current and historical presence in Tanzania and acts as an important partner in itself, and associated IGOs and NGOs, in many functions in the country, as well as functions based in Tanzania and implemented throughout the Great Lakes and Africa as a whole.<ref name="UN_tz">{{Cite web |title=The United Nations in Tanzania |url=https://tanzania.un.org/en/about/about-the-un |access-date=22 June 2022 |website=United Nations |language=en}}</ref> Of the many functions, the UN and Tanzania partner or the UN works with outside countries, most notably human rights and justice courts and reporting, education, development, climate change, health, and wildlife conservation.<ref name="UN_tzEntities">{{Cite web |title=UN Entities in Tanzania |url=https://tanzania.un.org/en/about/un-entities-in-country |access-date=22 June 2022 |website=United Nations |language=en}}</ref> While the UN primary offices are in ], many other offices, courts, and NGOs are based in ]. The most well-known example is the ] genocide.<ref name="UN_SRES9771995">{{UN document |docid=S-RES-977(1995) |type=Resolution |body=Security Council |year=1995 |resolution_number=977 |access-date=2008-07-23|date=22 February 1995}}</ref>
Tanzania's relations with other donor countries, including ] and members of the ], are generally good, though donors are concerned about Tanzania's commitment to reducing government corruption.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1250}}<ref name=year/>


The African Union consists of 55 nations in Africa.<ref name="AU_memStates">{{Cite web |title=Member States |url=https://au.int/en/member_states/countryprofiles2 |access-date=22 June 2022 |website=African Union |language=en}}</ref> Tanzania is a founding member of the AU in 2001, and its predecessor the ] by the predecessors of Tanzania, ] and ], in 1963. The Judicial Branch of the AU and its courts are located in Tanzania.<ref name="AU_tzAgreement">{{Cite act |date=31 August 2007 |type=HOST AGREEMENT |legislature=] |title=Host Agreement Between the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania and the African Union on the Seat of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Right |language=en |article-type=Agreement |access-date=22 June 2022 |url=https://www.african-court.org/wpafc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/3-HOST-AGREEMENT-TANZANIA-AND-AU.pdf}}</ref> Originally the ], it has been combined with the ] to form the ] which is located in Arusha.<ref name="AU_tzAgreement" /> Tanzania ratified and joined the AU-brokered ] on 17 January 2022, the largest free trade area in the world.<ref name="Agarwal_22">{{Cite report |url=https://odi.org/en/publications/tanzania-and-the-african-continental-free-trade-area-possible-impacts-policy-priorities-and-scoping-of-future-support/ |title=Tanzania and the African Continental Free Trade Area: possible impacts, policy priorities and scoping of future support |last1=Agarwal |first1=Prachi |last2=Kweka |first2=Josaphat |date=2022-03-11 |publisher=], ] |location=] |publication-date=2022-03-11 |language=en |last3=Willem te Velde |first3=Dirk |access-date=2022-06-22 |type=Briefing, policy papers}}</ref>
;Multilateral relations
Tanzania is a member of the ] (EAC), along with Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi.<ref>{{cite web | title=East African Community: One People One Destiny | url=http://www.eac.int/|publisher=] | accessdate=10 July 2014}}</ref> According to the East African Common Market Protocol of 2010, the free trade and free movement of people is guaranteed, including the right to reside in another member country for purposes of employment.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1250}}<ref>{{cite web | title=Annex on the Free Movement of Persons | url=http://www.eac.int/commonmarket/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=87&Itemid=137 | publisher=] | accessdate=21 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Annex on the Right of Residence | url=http://www.eac.int/commonmarket/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=90&Itemid=112 | publisher=] | accessdate=21 October 2014}}</ref> This protocol, however, has not been implemented because of work permit and other bureaucratic, legal, and financial obstacles.<ref>Marc Nkwame (2 October 2014) . ''Daily News''</ref>


The East African Community consisting of Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is headquartered in Arusha.<ref name="Ugirashebuja_17">{{Cite book |url=https://brill.com/view/title/33464 |title=East African Community Law: Institutional, Substantive and Comparative EU Aspects |date=2017 |publisher=] |isbn=978-90-04-32207-3 |editor-last=Ugirashebuja |editor-first=Emmanuel |location=], ] |language=en |editor-last2=Ruhangisa |editor-first2=John Eudes |editor-last3=Ottervanger |editor-first3=Tom |editor-last4=Cuyvers |editor-first4=Armin}}</ref><ref name="EAC_overview">{{Cite web |title=Overview of EAC |url=https://www.eac.int/overview-of-eac |access-date=22 June 2022 |website=East African Community |language=en}}</ref> Tanzania, along with Kenya and Uganda, is a founding member of the EAC in 2000.<ref name="EAC_history">{{Cite web |title=History of the EAC |url=https://www.eac.int/eac-history#:~:text=The%20Treaty%20for%20the%20Establishment,all%20the%20three%20Partner%20States. |access-date=22 June 2022 |website=East African Community |language=en}}</ref> Following the German defeat in ] Tanzania joined the London-based ] that was a customs union and provider of currency for Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya from 1919 to 1948, the ] from 1948 to 1961, and East African Common Services Organization (EACSO) from 1961 to 1966. In 1966 all three countries formed the first East African Community which lasted until 1976, then the East African Co-operation from 1993 to 2000, before becoming reestablished as the East African Community in 2000.<ref name="EAC_history" /><ref name="Kadaga_22">{{Cite speech |last=Kadaga |first=Rebecca |author-link=Rebecca Kadaga |event=Ministry of East African Community Affairs |location=Makerere University |date=2022-06-16 |access-date=2022-06-21 |title=The Strategic need for EAC Integration |type=Keynote Address |pages=1, 3, 6-9 |language=en |url=https://www.mediacentre.go.ug/media/address-rt-hon-rebecca-kadaga-1st-deputy-prime-ministerminister-makerere-university}}</ref>
Tanzania is also a member of the ] (SADC).<ref>{{cite web | title=Member States | url=http://www.sadc.int/member-states/ | publisher=] | accessdate=10 July 2014}}</ref> The EAC, the SADC, and the ] agreed in June 2011 to negotiate the creation of a Tripartite Free Trade Area spanning 26 African countries, with a goal to complete the first phase of negotiations within 36 months.<ref>. comesa-eac-sadc-tripartite.org.</ref>


The EAC has had a ] since 2005, with a free trade zone between member states and unified tariffs and trade agreements with non-member states and multinational organizations.<ref name="Ugirashebuja_17" /> The customs union also established a unified organization and sets of rules, such as ], for all trade within, into, and passing through member states. In 2010 a common market was established within the EAC for the free movement of labor, goods, people, capital, and services, as well as established rights of establishment.<ref name="Ugirashebuja_17" /> The East African Monetary Union (EAMU) is proposed to be established in 2024 that will create a single common currency by the East African Central Bank.<ref name="Adam_17">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MDXDQAAQBAJ |title=Tanzania: the path to prosperity |date=2017 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-19-870481-2 |editor-last=Adam |editor-first=Christopher |location=]; ] |language=en |editor-last2=Collier |editor-first2=Paul |editor-last3=Ndulu |editor-first3=B. J.}}</ref> From the original reestablishment of the EAC, as laid out in Article 5(2) of the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community, the final goal for the EAC is always the political federation of all member states. In 2017 all member states adopted the ] of EAC as a transitional precursor to the final federation.<ref name="Ugirashebuja_17" /><ref name="Kadaga_22" />
As of 31 October 2014, Tanzania was contributing 2,253 soldiers and other personnel to various ] peacekeeping operations.<ref>, United Nations Peacekeeping, 31 October 2014</ref> The ] is participating along with South African and Malawian militaries in the ] (MONUSCO) in the ] (DRC). The ] authorised the force on 28 March 2013 to conduct targeted offensive operations to neutralise groups that threaten peace in the DRC.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44876 | title=Tanzanian troops arrive in eastern DR Congo as part of UN intervention brigade | publisher=United Nations | accessdate=17 October 2014 | date=10 May 2013}}</ref> Tanzania was also participating in peacekeeping missions in the ] of Sudan (]); ], control of which is contested between South Sudan and Sudan (]); the ] (MINUSCA); ] (]); and South Sudan (]).<ref>, United Nations Peacekeeping, 31 October 2014, p. 39</ref>

The Southern African Development Community consists of 16 nations, including all countries of southern Africa plus Tanzania and the DRC from the Great Lakes.<ref name="Muntschick_17">{{Cite book |last=Muntschick |first=Johannes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IDE5DwAAQBAJ |title=The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU): Regionalism and External Influence |date=2017-10-09 |publisher=] |isbn=978-3-319-45330-9 |location=] |language=en |access-date=22 June 2022}}</ref> Tanzania is a founding member of SADC in 1994, as well as its predecessor the ], from 1960 to 1994. While FLS aimed to end apartheid, its successor SADC has the aims of furthering peace and security along with the economic and political integration of member states.<ref name="Muntschick_17" />


===Military=== ===Military===
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The ] (TPDF) (Kiswahili: Jeshi la Wananchi wa Tanzania (JWTZ)) is the armed forces of Tanzania, operating as a people's force under civilian control. It is composed of five branches or commands: Land Force (army), Air Force, Naval Command, National Service, Headquarter (MMJ).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tpdf.mil.tz/ |title=Mwanzo-Jeshi la Ulinzi la Wananchi wa Tanzania |publisher=Tpdf.mil.tz |date= |access-date=2022-02-10}}</ref> Tanzanian citizens are able to volunteer for military service from 15 years of age, and 18 years of age for compulsory National military service upon graduation from advanced secondary school. Conscript service obligation was 2 years as of 2004.{{Update inline|date=October 2021}}


Tanzania is the 65th most peaceful country in the world, according to the 2024 ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 Global Peace Index |url=https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GPI-2024-web.pdf}}</ref>
The armed forces consists of the army, ] and ]. The current Chief of Defence Forces is General ]. The armed forces was engaged in the ], the ] and most recently the ].


===Human rights===
Tanzania is also involved in the following ] missions: ] (Sudan), ] (Lebanon) and ] (part of ] in DR Congo).
{{Main|Human rights in Tanzania|Persecution of people with albinism|LGBT rights in Tanzania}}

Throughout Tanzania, ] are illegal and carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web |title=State Sponsored Homophobia 2016: A world survey of sexual orientation laws: criminalisation, protection and recognition |url=https://ilga.org/downloads/02_ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2016_ENG_WEB_150516.pdf |work=] |date=17 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010135034/http://ilga.org/downloads/02_ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2016_ENG_WEB_150516.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2017 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> According to a 2007 ] survey, 95 percent of Tanzanians believed that homosexuality should not be accepted by society.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/258.pdf|title=Pew Global Attitudes Project|pages=35, 84, and 117|publisher=Pew Research Centre|access-date=15 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214225525/http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/258.pdf|archive-date=14 February 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

People with ] living in Tanzania are often attacked, killed or mutilated because of superstitions related to the black-magical practice known as ] that say body parts of albinos have magical properties.<ref>"". BBC News. 12 March 2015.</ref> Tanzania has the highest occurrence of this human rights violation among 27 African countries where ] is known to be practised.<ref>Charlotte Baker (22 September 2017) . ''The Independent''</ref>

In December 2019, ] reported that the Tanzanian government annulled the right of NGOs as well as individuals to directly file any case against it at the Arusha-based African Court for Human and Peoples' Rights.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/12/tanzania-withdrawal-of-individual-rights-to-african-court-will-deepen-repression/|title= Tanzania: Withdrawal of individual rights to African Court will deepen repression|date= 2 December 2019|access-date=2 December 2019|publisher=Amnesty International}}</ref>


==Economy and infrastructure== ==Economy and infrastructure==
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{{As of|2021}}, according to the IMF, Tanzania's gross domestic product (GDP) was an estimated $71 billion (nominal), or $218.5 billion on a ] (PPP) basis. GDP per capita (PPP) was $3,574.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2018/April |title=World Economic Outlook Database April 2018 |publisher=International Monetary Fund}}</ref>
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Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. As of 2014, Tanzania's ] (GDP) was an estimated $43.8 billion,<ref name="Guarded optimism over GDP rebase">{{cite web | url=http://dailynews.co.tz/index.php/biz/39660-guarded-optimm-over-gdp-rebase | title=Guarded optimism over GDP rebase | publisher=Daily News Tanzania | accessdate=9 April 2015 }}></ref> or $86.4 billion on a ] (PPP) basis.<ref name="imf2">{{cite web | url= http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2014/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=66&pr.y=7&sy=2014&ey=2014&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=738&s=NGDPD%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPGDP%2CPPPPC&grp=0&a= | title=Tanzania | publisher=International Monetary Fund | accessdate=14 October 2014}}</ref> Tanzania is a middle-power country, with a per capita GDP of $1,813 (PPP),<ref name="imf2"/> which was 32% below the average of $2,673 for the 45 sub-Saharan African countries<ref>. imf.org.</ref> and ranked 23rd among those countries.<ref>. imf.org.</ref>


From 2009 through 2013, Tanzania's per capita GDP (based on constant local currency) grew an average of 3.5% per year, higher than any other member of the ] (EAC) and exceeded by only nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: the ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref>. World Bank.</ref> From 2009 through to 2013, Tanzania's per capita GDP (based on constant local currency) grew an average of 3.5% per year, higher than any other member of the ] (EAC) and exceeded by only nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG |title=GDP per capita growth (annual %) |publisher=] |access-date=9 August 2024}}</ref>


Tanzania's largest trading partners in 2012 for its US $5.5 billion in exports were ], ], and ].<ref name="UND"/> Its imports totalled US $11.7 billion, with Switzerland, China, and the ] being the biggest partners.<ref name="UND"/> Tanzania's largest trading partners in 2017 for its US$5.3&nbsp;billion in exports were ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name="UND"/> Its imports totalled US$8.17&nbsp;billion, with India, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, China, and the United Arab Emirates being the biggest partners.<ref name="UND"/>


Tanzania weathered the ], which began in late 2008 or early 2009, relatively well. Strong gold prices, bolstering the country's mining industry, and Tanzania's poor integration into global markets helped to insulate the country from the downturn.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1250}} Since the recession ended, the Tanzanian economy has expanded rapidly thanks to strong tourism, telecommunications, and banking sectors.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1250}} Tanzania weathered the ], which began in late 2008 or early 2009, relatively well. Strong gold prices, bolstering the country's ], and Tanzania's poor integration into global markets helped to insulate the country from the downturn.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1250}} Since the recession ended, the Tanzanian economy has expanded rapidly thanks to strong tourism, telecommunications, and banking sectors.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1250}}


According to the ], however, recent growth in the national economy has benefited only the "very few", leaving out the majority of the population.<ref>. undp.org.</ref> Tanzania's 2013 ] was worse than any other country in the EAC except ].<ref name="GHI">. International Food Policy Research Institute. October 2013</ref>{{rp|page 15}} The proportion of persons who were undernourished in 2010–12 was also worse than any other EAC country except Burundi.<ref name="GHI"/>{{rp|page 51}} According to the ] (UNDP), however, recent growth in the national economy has benefited only the "very few", leaving out the majority of the population.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014230730/http://www.tz.undp.org/content/tanzania/en/home/countryinfo/ |date=14 October 2014}}. undp.org.</ref> As of the latest survey in 2015/2016, 57.1 percent of the population is considered to be affected by ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023: Tanzania (United Republic of) |url=https://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/Country-Profiles/MPI/TZA.pdf |access-date=27 May 2024 |website=United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Reports}}</ref> Tanzania's 2013 ] was worse than any other country in the EAC except Burundi.<ref name="GHI">. International Food Policy Research Institute. October 2013</ref>{{rp|page 15}} The proportion of persons who were undernourished in 2010–12 was also worse than any other EAC country except Burundi.<ref name="GHI"/>{{rp|page 51}}
===Poverty===
The level of poverty in Tanzania is very high.<ref></ref> Tanzania has made little progress towards reducing extreme hunger and malnutrition.<ref></ref><ref></ref> The 2010 Global Hunger Index ranks the situation as “alarming”.<ref></ref> Children in rural areas suffer substantially higher rates of malnutrition and chronic hunger, although urban-rural disparities have narrowed as regards both stunting and underweight.<ref></ref> Low rural sector productivity arises mainly from inadequate infrastructure investment; limited access to farm inputs, extension services and credit; limited technology as well as trade and marketing support; and heavy dependence on rain-fed agriculture and natural resources.<ref></ref>


In 2020, the ] declared the rise of the Tanzanian economy from low income to lower ], as its ] increased from US$1,020 in 2018 to US$1,080 in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/new-world-bank-country-classifications-income-level-2020-2021|title=New World Bank country classifications by income level: 2020–2021|publisher=World Bank|date=1 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/news/Tanzania-joins-middle-income-status-ahead-of-schedule/1840340-5586580-5p13b7z/index.html|title=Tanzania joins middle income status ahead of schedule|work=The Citizen|date=2 July 2020}}</ref>
Approximately 68 percent of Tanzania's 44.9 million citizens live below the poverty line of $1.25 a day and 16 percent of children under 5 are malnourished.<ref></ref> The most prominent challenges Tanzania faces in poverty reduction are unsustainable harvesting of its natural resources, unchecked cultivation, climate change and water- source encroachment, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).<ref></ref>


Tanzania's economy grew 4.6 percent in 2022, and 5.2 percent in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/tanzania/overview |title=Tanzania Overview |publisher=World Bank |access-date=9 August 2024}}</ref>
There are very few resources for Tanzanians in terms of credit services, infrastructure or availability to improved agricultural technologies, which further exacerbates hunger and poverty in the country according to the UNDP.<ref></ref> Tanzania ranks 159 out of 187 countries in poverty according to the United Nation’s Human Development Index (2014).<ref></ref>

===Hunger and poverty===
The Global Hunger Index previously ranked the situation as "alarming" with a score of 42 in the year 2000; since then the GHI has declined to 23.2.<ref name="globalhungerindex.org">{{cite web |title=Tanzania |url=https://www.globalhungerindex.org/tanzania.html |access-date=6 August 2024 |website=Global Hunger Index – Official Website of the Peer-Reviewed Publication}}</ref> Children in rural areas suffer substantially higher rates of malnutrition and chronic hunger, although urban-rural disparities have narrowed as regards both stunting and underweight.<ref name="Tanzania UNDP">{{cite web|url=https://www.tz.undp.org/content/tanzania/en/home/about-us.html|title=About us |website=UNDP |access-date=25 May 2020|archive-date=11 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811174628/https://www.tz.undp.org/content/tanzania/en/home/about-us.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Low rural sector productivity arises mainly from inadequate infrastructure investment; limited access to farm inputs, extension services and credit; limited technology as well as trade and marketing support; and heavy dependence on rain-fed agriculture and natural resources.<ref name="Tanzania UNDP"/>

Approximately 68 percent of Tanzania's 61.1&nbsp;million citizens live below the poverty line of $1.25 a day. 32 percent of the population are malnourished.<ref name="globalhungerindex.org"/> The most prominent challenges Tanzania faces in poverty reduction are unsustainable harvesting of ], unchecked cultivation, climate change and water source encroachment, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).<ref name="Tanzania">{{cite web|url=https://www.heifer.org/about-us/where-we-work/tanzania.html|title=Tanzania|website=Heifer International}}</ref>

There are very few resources for Tanzanians in terms of credit services, infrastructure or availability to improved agricultural technologies, which further exacerbates hunger and poverty in the country according to the UNDP.<ref name="Tanzania"/> Tanzania ranks 159 out of 187 countries in poverty according to the United Nation's Human Development Index (2014).<ref name="Tanzania"/>

The 2019 ] report showed that in the last 10 years, poverty has reduced by 8 percentage points, from 34.4% in 2007 to 26.4% in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/tanzania/publication/tanzanias-path-to-poverty-reduction-and-pro-poor-growth|title=Tanzania's Path to Poverty Reduction and Pro-Poor Growth |publisher=World Bank |date=1 December 2019}}</ref> A further report showed a reduction to 25.7% in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ippmedia.com/en/news/tanzania-60-gdp-sharp-rise-poverty-cut|title=Tanzania at 60: GDP in sharp rise, poverty cut |work=IPP Media |date=November 12, 2021}}</ref>


===Agriculture=== ===Agriculture===
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The Tanzanian economy is heavily based on agriculture, which accounts for 24.5% of gross domestic product,<ref name="Abstract"></ref>{{rp|page 37}} provides 85% of exports,<ref name="factbook"/> and accounts for half of the employed workforce;<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 56}} The agricultural sector grew 4.3% in 2012, less than half of the ] target of 10.8%.<ref></ref> 16.4% of the land is ],<ref>. World Bank.</ref> with 2.4% of the land planted with ]s.<ref>. World Bank.</ref>

The Tanzanian economy is heavily based on agriculture, which in 2013 accounted for 24.5 per cent of gross domestic product,<ref name="Abstract">{{cite web |url=http://www.nbs.go.tz:80/nbs/Stastical%20Abstract/Statistical%20Abstract%20Report%202013.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123044258/http://www.nbs.go.tz/nbs/Stastical%20Abstract/Statistical%20Abstract%20Report%202013.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 November 2016 |title=Statistical Abstract 2013, National Bureau of Statistics |publisher=Tanzania Ministry of Finance |date=July 2014|access-date=23 October 2014}}</ref>{{rp|page 37}} provides 85% of exports,<ref name="factbook"/> and accounted for half of the employed workforce.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 56}} The agricultural sector grew 4.3 percent in 2012, less than half of the ] target of 10.8%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mof.go.tz/mofdocs/news/latest%20news/MAIR%202012_13(upload).pdf|title=MKUKUTA Annual Implementation Report 2012/13|publisher=Tanzania Ministry of Finance|date=November 2013|page=11|access-date=1 November 2014|archive-date=1 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101230130/http://www.mof.go.tz/mofdocs/news/latest%20news/MAIR%202012_13(upload).pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> 16.4 per cent of the land is ],<ref>. World Bank.</ref> with 2.4 percent of the land planted with ]s.<ref>. World Bank. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107032438/http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.CROP.ZS |date=7 January 2015}}</ref> Tanzania's economy relies on farming, but climate change has impacted their farming.


Maize was the largest food crop on the Tanzania mainland in 2013 (5.17 million tonnes), followed by cassava (1.94 million tonnes), sweet potatoes (1.88 million tonnes), beans (1.64 million tonnes), bananas (1.31 million tonnes), rice (1.31 million tonnes), and millet (1.04 million tonnes).<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 58}} Sugar was the largest ] on the mainland in 2013 (296,679 tonnes), followed by cotton (241,198 tonnes), cashew nuts (126,000 tonnes), tobacco (86,877 tonnes), coffee (48,000 tonnes), sisal (37,368 tonnes), and tea (32,422 tonnes).<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 58}} Beef was the largest meat product on the mainland in 2013 (299,581 tonnes), followed by lamb/mutton (115,652 tonnes), chicken (87,408 tonnes), and pork (50,814 tonnes).<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 60}} ] was the largest food crop on the Tanzania mainland in 2013 (5.17&nbsp;million tonnes), followed by cassava (1.94&nbsp;million tonnes), sweet potatoes (1.88&nbsp;million tonnes), beans (1.64&nbsp;million tonnes), bananas (1.31&nbsp;million tonnes), rice (1.31&nbsp;million tonnes), and millet (1.04&nbsp;million tonnes).<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 58}} Sugar was the largest ] on the mainland in 2013 (296,679 tonnes), followed by cotton (241,198 tonnes), cashew nuts (126,000 tonnes), tobacco (86,877 tonnes), coffee (48,000 tonnes), sisal (37,368 tonnes), and tea (32,422 tonnes).<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 58}} Beef was the largest meat product on the mainland in 2013 (299,581 tonnes), followed by lamb/mutton (115,652 tonnes), chicken (87,408 tonnes), and pork (50,814 tonnes).<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 60}}


According to the 2002 National Irrigation Master Plan, 29.4 million hectares in Tanzania are suitable for irrigation farming; however, only 310,745 hectares in June 2011 were actually being irrigated.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=36093 | title=Irrigation will give us more food by 2015&nbsp;– govt | date=5 December 2011 | accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref> According to the 2002 National Irrigation Master Plan, 29.4&nbsp;million hectares in Tanzania are suitable for irrigation farming; however, only 310,745 hectares were actually being irrigated in June 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=36093 |title=Irrigation will give us more food by 2015&nbsp;– govt |date=5 December 2011 |access-date=19 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022040833/http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=36093 |archive-date=22 October 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>


===Industry and construction=== ===Industry, energy and construction===
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{{see also|List of companies of Tanzania}}
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Industry and construction is a major and growing component of the Tanzanian economy, contributing 22.2% of GDP in 2013.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 37}} This component includes mining and quarrying, manufacturing, electricity and natural gas, water supply, and construction.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 37}} Mining contributed 3.3% of GDP in 2013.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 33}} The vast majority of the country's mineral export revenue comes from gold, accounting for 89% of the value of those exports in 2013.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 71}} It also exports sizeable quantities of gemstones, including ] and ].<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1251}} All of Tanzania's ] production, which totalled 106,000 short tons in 2012, is used domestically.<ref name="EIA"/>


Industry and construction is a major and growing component of the Tanzanian economy, contributing 22.2 per cent of GDP in 2013.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 37}} This component includes mining and quarrying, manufacturing, electricity and natural gas, water supply, and construction.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 37}} Mining contributed 3.3 per cent of GDP in 2013.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 33}} The vast majority of the country's mineral export revenue comes from gold, accounting for 89 per cent of the value of those exports in 2013.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 71}} Tanzania's gold production is 46 metric tonnes in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gold production |url=https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gold-production?tab=table |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231129233804/https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gold-production?tab=table |archive-date=2023-11-29 |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Our World in Data}}</ref> It also exports sizeable quantities of gemstones, including ] and ].<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1251}} All of Tanzania's coal production, which totalled 106,000 short tons in 2012, is used domestically.<ref name="EIA"/>
Only 15% of Tanzanians had access to electric power in 2011.<ref>. World Bank.</ref> The government-owned ] (TANESCO) dominates the electric supply industry in Tanzania.<ref name="EWURA-El">. ''ewura.go.tz''. 9 March 2012</ref> The country generated 6.013 billion ] (kWh) of electricity in 2013, a 4.2% increase over the 5.771 billion kWh generated in 2012.<ref name="BudEx"></ref>{{rp|page 4}} Generation increased by 63% between 2005 and 2012;<ref name="2012Elec"/><ref>. iea.org.</ref> however, only 15% of Tanzanians had access to electric power in 2011.<ref>. World Bank.</ref> Almost 18% of the electricity generated in 2012 was lost because of theft and transmission and distribution problems.<ref name="2012Elec">. iea.org.</ref> The electrical supply varies, particularly when droughts disrupt hydropower electric generation; rolling blackouts are implemented as necessary.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1251}}<ref name="EWURA-El"/> The unreliability of the electrical supply has hindered the development of Tanzanian industry.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1251}} In 2013, 49.7% of Tanzania's electricity generation came from natural gas, 28.9% from hydroelectric sources, 20.4% from thermal sources, and 1.0% from outside the country.<ref name="BudEx"/>{{rp|page 5}} The government is building a {{convert|532|km|mi}} gas pipeline from ] to Dar es Salaam, with a scheduled completion in 2015.<ref>ashery mkama. . ''DailyNews Online Edition''.</ref> This pipeline is expected to allow the country to double its electricity generation capacity to 3,000 megawatts by 2016.<ref>. allAfrica.com. 17 September 2014</ref> The government's goal is to increase capacity to at least 10,000 megawatts by 2025.<ref></ref>
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Only 15 percent of Tanzanians had access to electric power in 2011, rising to 35.2 per cent in 2018.<ref name="data.worldbank.org">. World Bank. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412100001/http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS |date=12 April 2012}}</ref> The government-owned ] (TANESCO) dominates the electric supply industry in Tanzania.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ewura.go.tz/newsite/index.php/2012-03-09-08-22-52/electricity |title=Electricity |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023170705/http://www.ewura.go.tz/newsite/index.php/2012-03-09-08-22-52/electricity |archive-date=23 October 2014 |work=ewura.go.tz |date=9 March 2012}}</ref>{{efn|In 2020 access to electricity reached a high of 84.6 percent, the highest in East Africa.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.esi-africa.com/industry-sectors/transmission-and-distribution/tanzania-records-highest-percentage-in-access-to-electricity/ |title=Tanzania records highest percentage in access to electricity |website=ESI Africa |date=11 May 2020 |access-date=29 June 2021 |archive-date=17 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717211339/https://www.esi-africa.com/industry-sectors/transmission-and-distribution/tanzania-records-highest-percentage-in-access-to-electricity/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>}} The country generated 6.013&nbsp;billion ] (kWh) of electricity in 2013, a 4.2 per cent increase over the 5.771&nbsp;billion kWh generated in 2012.<ref name="BudEx">{{cite web|url=http://www.mof.go.tz/mofdocs/budget/Budget%20Execution%20Report/BER%20January%20-%20March%202014%20Final.pdf|title="Quarterly Economic Review and Budget Execution Report for Fiscal Year 2013/14: January–March 2014", Tanzania Ministry of Finance, May 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014|access-date=11 November 2014|archive-date=11 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111084258/http://www.mof.go.tz/mofdocs/budget/Budget%20Execution%20Report/BER%20January%20-%20March%202014%20Final.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rp|page 4}} Generation increased by 63 percent between 2005 and 2012;<ref name="2012Elec"/><ref>. iea.org.</ref> Almost 18 percent of the electricity generated in 2012 was lost because of theft and transmission and distribution problems.<ref name="2012Elec"></ref> The electrical supply varies, particularly when droughts disrupt hydropower electric generation; rolling blackouts are implemented as necessary.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1251}} The unreliability of the electrical supply has hindered the development of Tanzanian industry.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1251}} In 2013, 49.7 percent of Tanzania's electricity generation came from natural gas, 28.9 percent from hydroelectric sources, 20.4 percent from thermal sources, and 1.0 percent from outside the country.<ref name="BudEx"/>{{rp|page 5}} The government has built a {{convert|532|km}} gas pipeline from ] to Dar es Salaam.<ref>ashery mkama. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029034136/http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/biz/36257-gas-connection-to-dar-houses-faces-hurdles |date=29 October 2014}}. ''DailyNews Online Edition''.</ref> This pipeline was expected to allow the country to double its electricity generation capacity to 3,000 megawatts by 2016.<ref>. allAfrica.com. 17 September 2014</ref> The government's goal is to increase capacity to at least 10,000 megawatts by 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gst.go.tz/images/TANZANIA%20ELECTRICITY%20SUPPLY%20INDUSTRY%20REFORM%20STRATEGY%20&%20ROADMAP.pdf|title=Electricity Supply Industry Reform Strategy and Roadmap 2014–2025, Tanzania Ministry of Energy and Minerals, 30 June 2014, page i. Retrieved 26 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324111701/http://gst.go.tz/images/TANZANIA%20ELECTRICITY%20SUPPLY%20INDUSTRY%20REFORM%20STRATEGY%20%26%20ROADMAP.pdf|archive-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>
According to ], 25 to 30 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas resources have been discovered in Tanzania since 2010.<ref name="EIA"></ref> Bringing the total reserves to over 43 trillion cubic feet by the end of 2013,.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tpdc-tz.com/OIL%20and%20GAS%20EXPLORATION.pdf |title=OIL and GAS EXPLORATION.pdf |access-date= 9 April 2015 }}</ref> The value of natural gas actually produced in 2013 was US $52.2 million, a 42.7% increase over 2012.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 73}}


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Commercial production of gas from the Songo Songo Island field in the Indian Ocean commenced in 2004, thirty years after it was discovered there.<ref name="EABrief"></ref><ref name="EWURA-Ng">. ''ewura.go.tz''. 9 March 2012</ref> Over 35 billion cubic feet of gas was produced from this field in 2013,<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 72}} with proven, probable, and possible reserves totalling 1.1 trillion cubic feet.<ref name="EWURA-Ng"/> The gas is transported by pipeline to Dar es Salaam.<ref name="EABrief"/> As of 27 August 2014, TANESCO owed the operator of this field, Orca Exploration Group Inc., US $50.4 million, down from US $63.8 million two months earlier.<ref>, Orca Exploration Group Inc., p. 3</ref>


According to ], 25 to 30&nbsp;trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas resources have been discovered in Tanzania since 2010,<ref name="EIA">{{cite web |url=https://www.eia.gov/countries/country-data.cfm?fips=tz |title=International – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)}}</ref> bringing the total reserves to over 43&nbsp;trillion cubic feet by the end of 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tpdc-tz.com/OIL%20and%20GAS%20EXPLORATION.pdf |title=OIL and GAS EXPLORATION.pdf |access-date=9 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227104800/http://www.tpdc-tz.com/OIL%20and%20GAS%20EXPLORATION.pdf |archive-date=27 December 2015 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The value of natural gas actually produced in 2013 was US$52.2&nbsp;million, a 42.7 percent increase over 2012.<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 73}}
A newer natural gas field in Mnazi Bay in 2013 produced about one-seventh of the amount produced near Songo Songo Island<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 73}} but has proven, probable, and possible reserves of 2.2 trillion cubic feet.<ref name="EWURA-Ng"/> Virtually all of that gas is being used for electricity generation in ].<ref name="EABrief"/>


Commercial production of gas from the Songo Songo Island field in the Indian Ocean commenced in 2004, thirty years after it was discovered there.<ref name="EABrief">{{cite web |url=https://www.eia.gov/countries/regions-topics2.cfm?fips=EEAE |title=International – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510163804/http://www.eia.gov/countries/regions-topics2.cfm?fips=EEAE |archive-date=10 May 2015 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="EWURA-Ng"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023143420/http://www.ewura.go.tz/newsite/index.php/2012-03-09-08-22-52/natural-gas |date=23 October 2014}}. ''ewura.go.tz''. 9 March 2012</ref> Over 35&nbsp;billion cubic feet of gas was produced from this field in 2013,<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 72}} with proven, probable, and possible reserves totalling 1.1&nbsp;trillion cubic feet.<ref name="EWURA-Ng"/> The gas is transported by pipeline to Dar es Salaam.<ref name="EABrief"/> As of 27 August 2014, TANESCO owed the operator of this field, Orca Exploration Group Inc.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617204030/http://www.orcaexploration.com/pdfs/2014_Orca_Q2.pdf |date=17 June 2019}}, Orca Exploration Group Inc., p. 3</ref>
The Ruvuma and Nyuna regions of Tanzania have been explored mostly by the discovery company that holds 75% interest, Aminex (AEX), and has shown to hold in excess of 3.5 TCF of natural gas.A pipeline connecting offshore natural gas fields to Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam was completed at the end of April 2015, but technical setbacks will keep it from going online until November 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.energyglobal.com/pipelines/project-news/01042015/Tanzania-gas-pipe-finished-but-not-in-service/ |title=Tanzania gas pipe: finished but not in service |access-date= 9 April 2015 }}</ref>

A newer natural gas field in Mnazi Bay in 2013 produced about one-seventh of the amount produced near Songo Songo Island<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 73}} but has proven, probable, and possible reserves of 2.2&nbsp;trillion cubic feet.<ref name="EWURA-Ng"/> Virtually all of that gas is being used for electricity generation in ].<ref name="EABrief"/>

The Ruvuma and Kiliwani areas of Tanzania have been explored mostly by the discovery company that holds a 75 percent interest, Aminex, and has shown to hold in excess of 3.5&nbsp;trillion cubic feet of natural gas. A pipeline connecting offshore natural gas fields to Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam was completed at the end of April 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldpipelines.com/project-news/06062016/kiliwani-north-update/ |title=Tanzania gas pipe: finished but not in service |access-date=9 April 2015| date=April 2015}}</ref>


===Tourism=== ===Tourism===
{{Main|Tourism in Tanzania}} {{Main|Tourism in Tanzania}}
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Travel and tourism contributed 12.7% of Tanzania's gross domestic product and employed 11.0% of the country's labour force (1,189,300 jobs) in 2013.<ref name="Knoema">. ''Knoema''.</ref> The sector is growing rapidly, with overall receipts rising from US $1.74 billion in 2004 to US $4.48 billion in 2013,<ref name="Knoema"/> and receipts from international tourists rising from US $1.255 billion in 2010 to US $1.880 billion in 2013.<ref></ref> In 2012, 1,043,000 tourists arrived at Tanzania's borders compared to 590,000 in 2005.<ref name="UND"></ref> The vast majority of tourists visit Zanzibar or a "northern circuit" of ], the ] (NCA), ], ], and Mount Kilimanjaro.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}} In 2013, the most visited national park was Serengeti (452,485 tourists), followed by Manyara (187,773) and Tarangire (165,949).<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page xx}} According to a 2013 published report, around 600,000 people visit the NCA annually, earning 56 billion Tanzanian shillings in 2012.
Travel and tourism contributed 17.5 per cent of Tanzania's gross domestic product in 2016<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.tanzaniainvest.com/tourism/tourist-arrivals-reach-2016 |title=Tanzania Tourist Arrivals Increase by 12.9% in 2016 to Reach 1,28 M – TanzaniaInvest |date=26 May 2017 |work=TanzaniaInvest |access-date=12 August 2017 |language=en-US}}</ref> and employed 11.0 per cent of the country's labour force (1,189,300 jobs) in 2013.<ref name="Knoema">. ''Knoema''.</ref> Overall receipts rose from US$1.74&nbsp;billion in 2004 to US$4.48&nbsp;billion in 2013,<ref name="Knoema"/> and receipts from international tourists rose from US$1.255&nbsp;billion in 2010 to US$2&nbsp;billion in 2016.<ref name=":1"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfront.net/sites/all/files/pdf/unwto_highlights14_en_hr_0.pdf |title=''UNWTO Tourism Highlights: 2014 Edition'', United Nations World Tourism Organization, page 11. Retrieved 17 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208040125/http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfront.net/sites/all/files/pdf/unwto_highlights14_en_hr_0.pdf |archive-date=8 February 2015 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 2016, 1,284,279 tourists arrived at Tanzania's borders compared to 590,000 in 2005.<ref name="UND">{{cite web|url=https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/tza/|title=Tanzania (TZA) Exports, Imports, and Trade Partners |publisher=The Observatory of Economic Complexity |access-date=9 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424230123/https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/tza/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The vast majority of tourists visit ] or a "northern circuit" of ], the ], ], ], and ].<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}} In 2013, the most visited national park was Serengeti (452,485 tourists), followed by Manyara (187,773) and Tarangire (165,949).<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page xx}}


===Banking=== ===Banking===
The ] is the ] of Tanzania and is primarily responsible for maintaining price stability, with a subsidiary responsibility for issuing the banknotes and coins of the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bot-tz.org/AboutBOT/BOTFunction.asp |title=About the Bank&nbsp;— Primary Objective and Function of the Bank |publisher=Bank of Tanzania |access-date=19 February 2014 |archive-date=27 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327044107/http://www.bot-tz.org/AboutBOT/BOTFunction.asp |url-status=dead}}</ref> At the end of 2013, the total assets of the Tanzanian banking industry were ]19.5&nbsp;trillion, a 15 per cent increase over 2012.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005083304/http://www.bot-tz.org/BankingSupervision/Reports/DBS%20ANNUAL%20REPORT%202013.pdf |date=5 October 2014}}. Directorate of Banking Supervision, Bank of Tanzania, p. 5</ref>

The ] is the ] of Tanzania and is primarily responsible for maintaining price stability, with a subsidiary responsibility for issuing ] notes and coins.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bot-tz.org/AboutBOT/BOTFunction.asp | title=About the Bank&nbsp;— Primary Objective and Function of the Bank | publisher=Bank of Tanzania | accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref> At the end of 2013, the total assets of the Tanzanian banking industry were 19.5 trillion Tanzanian shillings, a 15% increase over 2012.<ref>. Directorate of Banking Supervision, Bank of Tanzania, p. 5</ref>


===Transport=== ===Transport===
{{Main|Transport in Tanzania}} {{Main|Transport in Tanzania}}


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Most transport in Tanzania is by road; road transport constitutes over 75% of the country's freight traffic and 80% of its passenger traffic.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}} The 86,500-kilometer road system is in generally poor condition.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}} Tanzania has two railway companies: ], which provides service between Dar es Salaam and ] (in a copper-mining district in Zambia), and ], which connects Dar es Salaam with central and northern Tanzania.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}} Rail travel in Tanzania often entails slow journeys with frequent cancellations or delays; the railways also have a deficient safety record.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}} Tanzania has four international airports, along with over 100 small airports or landing strips; airport infrastructure tends to be in poor condition.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1253}} Airlines in Tanzania include ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1253}} Several modern ] boats provide transportation across the Indian Ocean between Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. Most transport in Tanzania is by road, with road transport constituting over 75 per cent of the country's freight traffic and 80 percent of its passenger traffic.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}} The ] passes through Tanzania. The {{convert|181191|km}} road system is in generally poor condition.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}} Tanzania has two railway companies: ], which provides service between Dar es Salaam and ] (in a copper-mining district in Zambia), and ], which connects Dar es Salaam with central and northern Tanzania.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}} Rail travel in Tanzania often entails slow journeys with frequent cancellations or delays, and the railways have a deficient safety record.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}}

In Dar es Salaam, there is a huge project of rapid buses, ] which connects suburbs of ] city. The development of the DART system consists of six phases and is funded by the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the Government of Tanzania. The first phase began in April 2012, and it was completed in December 2015 and launched operations in May 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tanzaniainvest.com/transport/dart-bus-rapid-transit-launch-dar|title=Dar Es Salaam Officially Launch Bus Rapid Transit System – TanzaniaInvest|date=27 January 2017}}</ref>

Tanzania has four international airports, along with over 120 small airports or landing strips. Airport infrastructure tends to be in poor condition.<ref name="frame" />{{rp|page 1253}} Airlines in Tanzania include ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name="frame" />{{rp|page 1253}}


===Communications=== ===Communications===
{{Main|Telecommunications in Tanzania}} {{Main|Telecommunications in Tanzania}}


The communications sector is the fastest growing sector in Tanzania, expanding 22.8% in 2013; however, the sector accounted for only 2.4% of gross domestic product that year.<ref name="BudEx"/>{{rp|page 2}} In 2013, the communications sector was the fastest growing in Tanzania, expanding 22.8 per cent; however, the sector accounted for only 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product that year.<ref name="BudEx"/>{{rp|page 2}}

As of 2011, Tanzania had 56 mobile telephone subscribers per 100 inhabitants, a rate slightly above the sub-Saharan average.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1253}} Very few Tanzanians have fixed-line telephones.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1253}} Approximately 12 per cent of Tanzanians used the internet {{As of|2011|lc=y}}, though this number is growing rapidly.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1253}} The country has a fibre-optic cable network that replaced unreliable satellite service, but internet bandwidth remains very low.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1253}}

===Economic statistics controversy===

Two articles in the ''Economist'' in July 2020 raised doubts about official claims of economic growth: "If Tanzania's economy grew by almost 7% in the fiscal year to the end of June 2019, why did tax revenue fall by 1%? And why has bank lending to companies slumped? Private data are bad, too. In 2019 sales at the biggest brewer fell by 5%. Sales of cement by the two biggest producers were almost flat. None of these things is likely if growth is storming ahead. The discrepancies are so large that it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the government is lying."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/07/23/tanzanias-statistics-smell-wrong|title=Tanzania's statistics smell wrong|newspaper=]|date=23 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/07/23/why-tanzanias-statistics-look-fishy|title=Why Tanzania's statistics look fishy|newspaper=]|date=23 July 2020}}</ref>

Tim Staermose, a proponent of African investment, took issue with these data: "Some of these statements by ''The Economist'', based on the evidence I have gathered from primary sources – namely, the statutory financial reports that listed companies in Tanzania are legally obligated to release – are simply not true. Bank lending to companies as far as I can see has not, 'slumped.' The two biggest banks in Tanzania, which between them account for approximately 40% of the banking sector, both reported strong loan growth in 2019. ... As for cement sales being 'almost flat,' again, this is total nonsense. ... In 2019 Twiga sold 6% more cement by volume than it did in 2018. In the first six months of 2020, Twiga already sold 8% more cement than it had done by the same stage in 2019. Again, these numbers are very consistent with an economy that's reported to be growing at around 7% per annum. ... the 5% fall in beer sales in 2019 ... the published 2019 annual report by Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL) will tell you there were one-off circumstances that largely drove the decline ... resulted in sales falling. But TBL's profits actually rose in 2019."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://globalvaluehunter.com/media-reports-tanzanias-economy-is-awful-truth-or-fake-news/|title=Media reports Tanzania's economy is awful – truth, or fake news?|work=]|date=31 July 2020}}</ref>

== Food and nutrition ==
{{main|Food security in Tanzania}}
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Poor nutrition remains a persistent problem within Tanzania and varies hugely throughout the country's regions. ] reports that 16% of children are underweight and 34% experience stunted growth as a result of malnutrition.<ref name=":02">{{cite web|url=https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/global-health/nutrition/countries/tanzania-nutrition-profile|title=Tanzania: Nutrition Profile|website=usaid.gov|language=en|access-date=18 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024113234/https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/global-health/nutrition/countries/tanzania-nutrition-profile|archive-date=24 October 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> 10 regions house 58% of children suffering from stunted growth while 50% of acutely malnourished children can be found in 5 regions.<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicef.org/tanzania/nutrition.html|title=UNICEF Tanzania—Nutrition—The situation|website=unicef.org|access-date=28 October 2018|archive-date=2 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102192139/https://www.unicef.org/tanzania/nutrition.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Over a 5-year period, the ] district of Tanzania saw a 15% reduction in stunting in children under 5 years old, falling from 46% to 31% in 2005 and 2010 respectively. ], on the other hand, saw a 7% increase in the prevalence of stunting in this age group, rising from 50% in 2005 to 57% in 2010.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|date=2012 |title=Tanzania Assessment for Scaling Up Nutrition |url=http://apps.who.int/nutrition/landscape_analysis/TanzaniaLandscapeAnalysisFinalReport.pdf?ua=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302164752/https://apps.who.int/nutrition/landscape_analysis/TanzaniaLandscapeAnalysisFinalReport.pdf?ua=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 March 2021 |via=]}}</ref> Overall availability of food does not necessarily contribute to overall stunting figures. ], ] and ] regions, where overall availability of food is considered acceptable, still experience stunting incidents in excess of 50%. In some areas where food shortages are common, such as in the ] and ] regions, stunting instances remain comparatively less than those seen in Iringa, Mbeya and Rukwa.<ref name=":6" /> The Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre attributes these discrepancies to variance in maternal malnutrition, poor infant feeding practices, hygiene practices and poor healthcare services.<ref name=":6" /> Periods of drought can have significant impacts on the production of crops in Tanzania. Drought in East Africa has resulted in massive increases in the prices of food staples such as maize and ], crops crucial to the nutrition of the majority of Tanzania's population. From 2015 to 2017 the price of maize when bought wholesale more than tripled, from ]&nbsp;{{shilingi|400}} per kilogramme to {{shilingi|1,253}} per kilogramme.<ref name=":12">{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/tanzania-hunger-idUSL5N1GJ5CP|title=Survey finds most Tanzanians go hungry, despite government denials |work=Reuters|last=Makoye|first=Kizito|access-date=20 November 2018}}</ref>
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Tanzania remains heavily agricultural, with 80% of the total population engaging in subsistence farming.<ref name=":12"/> Rural areas are subjected to increased food shortages in comparison to urbanised areas, with a survey carried out within the country in 2017 finding 84% of people in rural areas suffering food shortages over a 3-month period compared to 64% of residents in cities.<ref name=":12" /> This disparity between rural and city nutrition can be attributed to various factors; increased nutritional needs due to manual labour, more limited access to food as a result of poor infrastructure, high-susceptibility to the damaging effects of nature and the "Agricultural Productivity Gap".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Alphonce|first=Roselyne|year=2017|title=Addressing the mismatch between food and nutrition policies and needs in Tanzania|url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/erh-tanzania-policy-brief.pdf |journal=Brookings}}</ref> The Agricultural Productivity Gap postulates that "value added per worker" is often much lower within the agricultural sector than that found within non-agricultural sectors. Furthermore, allocation of labour within the agricultural sector is largely allocated ineffectively.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Douglas |last1=Gollin |first2=David |last2=Lagakos |first3=Michael E. |last3=Waugh |name-list-style=amp|date=November 2013|title=The Agricultural Productivity Gap|url=https://www.nber.org/papers/w19628.pdf|publisher=National Bureau of Economic Research}}</ref>

=== Programmes targeting hunger ===
USAID programmes focusing on nutrition operate within the ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] regions of Tanzania. These "]" programmes heavily invest in nutrition, infrastructure, policy, capacity of institutions and agriculture which is identified by the organisation as a key area of economic growth in the country.<ref name=":02" /> A Tanzanian government led initiative "Kilimo Kwanza" or "Agriculture First" aims to encourage investment into agriculture within the private sector and hopes to improve agricultural processes and development within the country by seeking the knowledge of young people and the innovation that they can potentially provide.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=African Human Development Report 2012 |url=http://www.undp.org/content/dam/malawi/docs/general/Africa_HDR_EN_2012.pdf |pages=80, 93 |via=United Nations Development Programme |access-date=5 December 2018 |archive-date=10 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210225555/https://www.undp.org/content/dam/malawi/docs/general/Africa_HDR_EN_2012.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> During the 1990s, around 25% of Tanzania's population were provided access to iodised oil aimed to target iodine deficiency within expecting mothers, as result of studies showing the negative effects of in-utero iodine deficiency on cognitive development in children. Research showed that children of mothers with access to the supplement achieved on average greater than a third of a year more education than those who did not.<ref name=":2" />
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Programmes led by the ] operate within Tanzania. The Supplementary Feeding Programme (SFP) aims to target acute malnutrition by supplying blended food fortified with vitamins to pregnant women and mothers to children under 5 on a monthly basis.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://www.wfp.org/stories/10-facts-about-hunger-tanzania|title=UN World Food Programme|access-date=8 November 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206102326/https://www.wfp.org/stories/10-facts-about-hunger-tanzania|archive-date=6 December 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Pregnant women and mothers to children under 2 have access to the Mother and Child Health and Nutrition Programme's "Super Cereal" which is supplied with the intent of reducing stunting in children.<ref name=":4" /> World Food Programme supplementation remains the main food source for Tanzania's refugees. Super Cereal, Vegetable Oil, Pulses and Salt are supplied as part of the Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation to meet the average person's minimum daily caloric requirement of 2,100 kcal.<ref name=":4" /> ] state that continued investment in nutrition within Tanzania is of the utmost importance: Estimates predict that Tanzania stands to lose $20 billion by 2025 if nutrition within the country remains at its current level, however improvements in nutrition could produce a gain of around $4.7 billion<ref name=":3" />

Save the Children, with the help of UNICEF and ] funding created the Partnership for Nutrition in Tanzania (PANITA), in 2011. PANITA aims to use civil society organisations to target nutrition within the country. Alongside this, various sectors associated with nutrition are targeted such as agriculture, water, sanitation, education, economic development and social progress. PANITA is responsible for ensuring significant attention is given to nutrition in development plans and budgets created on national and regional levels within Tanzania. Since its conception, PANITA has grown from 94 to 306 participating civil society organisations nationwide.<ref name=":5">{{cite web|url=https://tanzania.savethechildren.net/what-we-do/nutrition|title=Nutrition {{!}} Tanzania {{!}} Save the Children|website=tanzania.savethechildren.net|language=en|access-date=14 November 2018|archive-date=6 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206102353/https://tanzania.savethechildren.net/what-we-do/nutrition|url-status=dead}}</ref> Agriculture within Tanzania is targeted by the Irish Aid led initiative Harnessing Agriculture for Nutrition Outcomes (HANO), which aims to merge nutrition initiatives with agriculture in the Lindi District of the country. The project aims to reduce stunting by 10% in children aged 0 to 23 months.<ref name=":5" />

==Science and technology==
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{{Main|Science and technology in Tanzania}}

Tanzania's first "National Science and Technology Policy" was adopted in 1996. The objective of the government's "Vision 2025" (1998) document was to "transform the economy into a strong, resilient and competitive one, buttressed by science and technology".


Under the umbrella of the One UN Initiative, UNESCO and Tanzanian government departments and agencies formulated a series of proposals in 2008 for revising the "National Science and Technology Policy". The total reform budget of US$10&nbsp;million was financed from the One UN fund and other sources. UNESCO provided support for mainstreaming science, technology, and innovation into the new "National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy" for the mainland and Zanzibar namely, Mkukuta II and Mkuza II, including in the field of tourism.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}
As of 2011, Tanzania had 56 mobile telephone subscribers per 100 inhabitants, a rate slightly above the sub-Saharan average.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1253}} Very few Tanzanians have fixed-line telephones.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1253}} Approximately 12% of Tanzanians used the internet as of 2011, though this number is rapidly growing.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1253}} The country has a fibre-optic cable network that recently replaced unreliable satellite service, but internet bandwidth remains very low.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1253}}


Tanzania's revised science policy was published in 2010. Entitled "National Research and Development Policy", it recognises the need to improve the process of prioritisation of research capacities, develop international co-operation in strategic areas of research and development, and improve planning for human resources. It also makes provisions for the establishment of a National Research Fund. This policy was, in turn, reviewed in 2012 and 2013.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002354/235406e.pdf |title=Southern Africa. In: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 |last1=Kraemer-Mbula |first1=Erika |last2=Scerri |first2=Mario |publisher=UNESCO |year=2015 |isbn=978-92-3-100129-1 |location=Paris |pages=535–565 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010135440/http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002354/235406e.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2017 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
=== Water supply and sanitation ===
{{Main|Water supply and sanitation in Tanzania}}
Water supply and sanitation in Tanzania is characterised by: decreasing access to ]s in the 2000s (especially in urban areas), steady access to some form of sanitation (around 93% since the 1990s), intermittent water supply and generally low quality of service.<ref name="mowi">Ministry of Water and Irrigation retrieved Feb 2010</ref> Many utilities are barely able to cover their operation and maintenance costs through revenues due to low tariffs and poor efficiency. There are significant ] differences and the best performing utilities are ] and ].<ref name="pubexp">Caroline van den Berg, Eileen Burke, Leonard Chacha and Flora Kessy, , September 2009</ref>


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The Government of Tanzania has embarked on a major sector reform process since 2002. An ambitious National Water Sector Development Strategy that promotes ] and the development of urban and rural water supply was adopted in 2006. Decentralisation has meant that responsibility for water and sanitation service provision has shifted to local government authorities and is carried out by 20 urban utilities and about 100 district utilities, as well as by Community Owned Water Supply Organisations in rural areas.<ref name="mowi" />


In 2010, Tanzania devoted 0.38 per cent of GDP to research and development. The global average in 2013 was 1.7 per cent of GDP. Tanzania had 69 researchers (in head counts) per million population in 2010. In 2014, Tanzania counted 15 publications per million inhabitants in internationally catalogued journals, according to Thomson Reuters' Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded). The average for sub-Saharan Africa was 20 publications per million inhabitants and the global average 176 publications per million inhabitants. Tanzania was ranked 120th in the ] in 2024, down from 97th in 2019.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/global-innovation-index-2024/en/|title=Global Innovation Index 2024. Unlocking the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship|access-date=2024-10-22|author=]|year=2024|isbn=978-92-805-3681-2|doi= 10.34667/tind.50062|website=www.wipo.int|location=Geneva|page=18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Global Innovation Index 2019|url=https://www.wipo.int/global_innovation_index/en/2019/index.html|access-date=2021-09-02|website=www.wipo.int|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2013-10-28|title=Global Innovation Index|url=https://knowledge.insead.edu/entrepreneurship-innovation/global-innovation-index-2930|access-date=2021-09-02|website=INSEAD Knowledge|language=en|archive-date=2 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902101622/https://knowledge.insead.edu/entrepreneurship-innovation/global-innovation-index-2930|url-status=dead}}</ref>
These reforms have been backed by a significant increase of the budget starting in 2006, when the water sector was included among the priority sectors of the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty MKUKUTA. The Tanzanian water sector remains heavily dependent on external donors: 88% of the available funds are provided by external donor organisations.<ref name="NWSDS">, retrieved 23 February 2010</ref> Results have been mixed. For example, a report by ] notes that "despite heavy investments brought in by the ] and the ], (the utility serving ]) has remained one of the worst performing water entities in Tanzania."<ref name="GIZ">]:, 2008, pp. 8–9</ref>


==Demographics== ==Demographics==
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According to the 2012 census, the total population was 44,928,923.<ref name="2012 census"/> The under 15 age group represented 44.1% of the population.<ref name="nbs1">{{cite web | url=http://www.nbs.go.tz/takwimu/references/Tanzania_in_figures2012.pdf | title=Tanzania in figures 2012 | page=7 | format=PDF | publisher=National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania | date=June 2013 | accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref> According to the 2012 census, the total population of Tanzania was 44,928,923.<ref name="2012 census">{{cite web |title=''Population Distribution by Administrative Areas'', 2012 Population and Housing Census, National Bureau of Statistics, United Republic of Tanzania, 2013 |url=http://www.nbs.go.tz/nbs/takwimu/census2012/Census_General_Report.zip}}</ref> The under-15 age group represented 44.1% of the population.<ref name="nbs1">{{cite web |url=http://www.nbs.go.tz/takwimu/references/Tanzania_in_figures2012.pdf |title=Tanzania in figures 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania |date=June 2013 |access-date=19 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126120431/http://www.nbs.go.tz/takwimu/references/Tanzania_in_figures2012.pdf |archive-date=26 November 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>


The population distribution in Tanzania is extremely uneven. Most people live on the northern border or the eastern coast, with much of the remainder of the country being sparsely populated.<ref name="frame">Joseph Lake (2013) "Economy" in ''Africa South of the Sahara'', edited by Europa Publications and Iain Frame, Routledge. ISBN 1857436598</ref>{{rp|page 1252}} Density varies from {{convert|12|/km2|/sqmi}} in the ] to {{convert|3133|/km2|/sqmi}} in the ].<ref name="2012 census"/>{{rp|page 6}} The population distribution in Tanzania is significantly uneven. Most people live on the northern border or the coast, with much of the remainder of the country being sparsely populated.<ref name="frame">Joseph Lake (2013) "Economy" in ''Africa South of the Sahara'', edited by Europa Publications and Iain Frame, Routledge. {{ISBN|1-85743-659-8}}</ref>{{rp|page 1252}} Density varies from {{convert|12|/km2}} in the ] to {{convert|3133|/km2}} in the ].<ref name="2012 census"/>{{rp|page 6}}


Approximately 70% of the population is rural, although this percentage has been declining since at least 1967.<ref>Athuman Mtulya (26 September 2013) . thecitizen.co.tz.</ref> Dar es Salaam (population 4,364,541<ref name=census2012>. nbs.go.tz. March 2013</ref>) is the largest city and commercial capital. ] (population 410,956<ref name=census2012/>), located in the centre of Tanzania, is the capital of the country and hosts the ]. Approximately 70% of the population is rural, although this percentage has been declining since at least 1967.<ref>Athuman Mtulya (26 September 2013) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710194919/http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/News/Report-reveals-rapid-rural--urban-migration-/-/1840392/2006950/-/m6w9qv/-/index.html |date=10 July 2018}}. thecitizen.co.tz.</ref> Dar es Salaam (population 4,364,541)<ref name=census2012>. nbs.go.tz. March 2013</ref> is the largest city and commercial capital. The capital of the country and economic centre of Tanzania, ] (population 410,956)<ref name=census2012/> is located in central Tanzania, and hosts the ].


At the time of the foundation of the United Republic of Tanzania in 1964, the child mortality rate was 335 deaths per 1,000 live births. Since independence, the rate of child deaths has declined to 62 per 1000 births.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://childmortality.org/data/Tanzania|title=Child mortality in Tanzania}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
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| city_1= Dar es Salaam
The population consists of ].<ref name=lev>{{cite book|author=David Levinson|title=Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uwi-rv3VV6cC&pg=PA173|date= 1998|publisher=Oryx Press|isbn=978-1-57356-019-1|pages=173–}}</ref> The ], ], ], and ] peoples have more than 1 million members each.<ref name="Otiso">{{cite book|author=Kefa M. Otiso|title=Culture and Customs of Tanzania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90d9pKhSjAIC|date= 2013|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-08708-0}}</ref>{{rp|page 4}} Approximately 99% of Tanzanians are of African descent, with small numbers of Arab, European, and Asian descent.<ref name=lev/> The majority of Tanzanians, including the Sukuma and the Nyamwezi, are ].{{citation needed | date=July 2014}} The ] include the nomadic ] and ], both of which are found in greater numbers in neighbouring Kenya.
| div_1= Dar es Salaam
| pop_1= 4,364,541
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| city_2= Mwanza
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| div_2= Mwanza Region{{!}}Mwanza
The population also includes people of Arab, ], and Pakistani origin, and small European and ] communities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12138811 |title=Tanzania orders Chinese out of Dar es Salaam market |publisher=BBC News |date=7 January 2011 |accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref> Many also identify as ]. Thousands of Arabs and Indians were massacred during the ] of 1964.<ref name="Zanzibar"/> As of 1994, the Asian community numbered 50,000 on the mainland and 4,000 on Zanzibar. An estimated 70,000 Arabs and 10,000 Europeans lived in Tanzania.<ref name="pop">{{cite web|url=http://www.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/tanzania/127939.htm |title=Tanzania (08/09) |publisher=U.S. Department of State |accessdate=19 February 2014}}</ref>
| pop_2= 706,543
| img_2= 2010-09-13 15-13-18 Tanzania Mwanza Mwanza.jpg


| city_3= Arusha
Some ] in Tanzania have been the victims of violence in recent years.<ref>. BBC.</ref><ref>. BBC News.</ref><ref>. BBC News.</ref><ref>. CNN. 29 November 2009</ref> Attacks are often to hack off the limbs of albinos in the perverse superstitious belief that possessing the bones of albinos will bring wealth. The country has banned witch doctors to try to prevent the practice, but it has continued and albinos remain targets.<ref>http://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/10/09/tanzania-albino-teen-los-angeles-bones-sidner-dnt-nr.cnn</ref>
| div_3= Arusha Region{{!}}Arusha
| pop_3= 416,442
| img_3= Look at Mt. Meru Arusha Tanzania.jpg


| city_4= Dodoma
According to 2010 Tanzanian government statistics, the ] in Tanzania was 5.4 children born per woman, with 3.7 in urban mainland areas, 6.1 in rural mainland areas, and 5.1 in Zanzibar.<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|page 55}} For all women aged 45–49, 37.3% had given birth to eight or more children, and for currently married women in that age group, 45.0% had given birth to that many children.<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|page 61}}
| div_4= Dodoma Region{{!}}Dodoma
| pop_4= 410,956
| img_4= Beautiful sunset in Dodoma University Tanzania.jpg

| city_5= Mbeya
| div_5= Mbeya Region{{!}}Mbeya
| pop_5= 385,279

| city_6= Morogoro
| div_6= Morogoro Region{{!}}Morogoro
| pop_6= 315,866

| city_7= Tanga, Tanzania{{!}}Tanga
| div_7= Tanga Region{{!}}Tanga
| pop_7= 273,332

| city_8= Kahama, Tanzania{{!}}Kahama
| div_8= Shinyanga Region{{!}}Shinyanga
| pop_8= 242,208

| city_9= Tabora
| div_9= Tabora Region{{!}}Tabora
| pop_9= 226,999

| city_10= Zanzibar City
| div_10= Zanzibar West Region{{!}}Zanzibar West
| pop_10= 223,033


===Religion===
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The population consists of ].<ref name=lev>{{cite book |first=David| last=Levinson|title=Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uwi-rv3VV6cC&pg=PA173 |date=1998 |publisher=Oryx Press |isbn=978-1-57356-019-1 |page=173}}</ref> The ], ], ], and ] peoples each have a population exceeding 1 million.<ref name="Otiso">{{cite book |first=Kefa M. |last=Otiso |title=Culture and Customs of Tanzania |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90d9pKhSjAIC|date= 2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-08708-0}}</ref>{{rp|page 4}} Most Tanzanians are of native ] descent. Tanzanian citizens of ] descent constitute a significant demographic minority which is particularly prominent in business and entrepreneurship. There are also Tanzanians of ] descent.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12138811 |title=Tanzania orders Chinese out of Dar es Salaam market |date=7 January 2011 |access-date=19 February 2014| newspaper=BBC News}}</ref> Many Tanzanians identify as ]. Some Tanzanians are of Arab descent.<ref name=lev/> The majority of Tanzanians, including the Sukuma and the Nyamwezi, are ].<ref>{{Cite news| url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/tanzania/26492.htm| title=Tanzania (06/02)| newspaper=U.S. Department of State| access-date=17 January 2017| df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Current statistics on religion are unavailable because religious surveys were eliminated from government census reports after 1967. Religious leaders and sociologists estimate that ] and ] communities are approximately equal in size, each accounting for 30 to 40% of the population, with the remainder consisting of practitioners of other faiths, ], and people of "]".<ref name=report>. United States ] (14 September 2007). ''This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the ].''</ref>


Thousands of Arabs and Indians were massacred during the ] of 1964.<ref name="Zanzibar"/> As of 1994, the Asian community numbered 50,000 on the mainland and 4,000 on Zanzibar. An estimated 70,000 Arabs and 10,000 Europeans lived in Tanzania.<ref name="pop">{{cite web |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/tanzania/127939.htm |title=Tanzania (08/09) |publisher=U.S. Department of State |access-date=19 February 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> As of 2015, the Indian community numbered 60,000.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/Tanzania-Partner-for-India-in-the-Western-Indian-Ocean-Region-131023 |access-date= 1 August 2024 |date= 13 October 2023 |title= Tanzania: A Key Partner for India in the Western Indian Ocean Region |first= Abhishek |last= Mishra |work= IDSA.in |archive-date= 12 September 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240912141334/https://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/Tanzania-Partner-for-India-in-the-Western-Indian-Ocean-Region-131023 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
According to recent{{Vague|date=October 2015}} estimates 35% of the population is ], 30% is ], and 35% practice ] in the mainland while more than 99% in Zanzibar are ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tz.html |title=The World Fact Book: Tanzania |website= |accessdate=26 January 2014}}</ref> Of Muslims, 16% are ], 20% are ], 40% are ], 20% are ] and 4% are Sufi.<ref>Pew Forum on Religious & Public life. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2013.</ref>


Some ] in Tanzania have been the victims of violence in recent years.<ref>. ''BBC News''.</ref><ref>. ''BBC News''.</ref><ref>. ''BBC News''.</ref><ref>. CNN. 29 November 2009</ref> Attacks are often to hack off the limbs of albinos in the perverse superstitious belief that possessing the bones of albinos will bring wealth. The country has banned witch doctors to try to prevent the practice, but it has continued and albinos remain targets.<ref name="cnn091015">{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/10/09/tanzania-albino-teen-los-angeles-bones-sidner-dnt-nr.cnn |title=Albino teen attacked for her body parts – CNN Video|date=9 October 2015 }}</ref>
The Christian population is mostly composed of Roman Catholics and Protestants. Among Protestants, the large number of ] and ] points to the German past of the country, while the number of ] point to the British history of Tanganyika. ] and ] are also present due to missionary activity. All of them have had some influence in varying degrees from the Walokole movement (East African Revival), which has also been fertile ground for the spread of charismatic and Pentecostal groups.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Moritz Fischer|title=‘The Spirit helps us in our weakness’: Charismatization of Worldwide Christianity and the Quest for an Appropriate Pneumatology with Focus on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania|journal=]|year=2011|volume=20|pages=96–121}}</ref>


According to 2010 Tanzanian government statistics, the ] in Tanzania was 5.4 children born per woman, with 3.7 in urban mainland areas, 6.1 in rural mainland areas, and 5.1 in Zanzibar.<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|page 55}} For all women aged 45–49, 37.3 per cent had given birth to eight or more children, and for currently married women in that age group, 45.0 per cent had given birth to that many children.<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|page 61}}
On the mainland, Muslim communities are concentrated in coastal areas; there are also some large Muslim majorities in inland urban areas and along the former caravan routes. A large majority of the Muslim population is Sunni. The Muslim population of Dar es Salaam, the largest and richest city in Tanzania, is mainly Sunni.


===Religion===
There are also active communities of other religious groups, primarily on the mainland, such as Buddhists, ], and Bahá'ís.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108395.htm | title=U.S. Department of State | publisher=State.gov |year=2008}}</ref>

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}}Official statistics on religion are unavailable because religious surveys were eliminated from government census reports after 1967.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter=Muslims in Tanzania: Quest for Equal Footing |title=Justice, Rights and Worship: Religion and Politics in Tanzania |editor1=Rwekaza S. Mukandala |editor2=S. Yahya-Othman |editor3=S.S. Mushi |editor4=L. Ndumbaro |last1=Liviga |first1=Athumani |first2=Zubeda |last2=Tumbo-Masabo |publisher=E & D Limited |year=2006 |isbn=9987411312 |location=Dar es Salaam |pages=149–150}}</ref> Tanzania's religious field is dominated by Christianity, Islam and African traditional religions connected to ethnic customs. The word for religion in Swahili, ''dini,'' generally apply to the world religions of Christianity and ] meaning that followers of traditional African religions are considered to be of "no religion". Religious belonging is often ambiguous, with some people adhering to multiple religious identities at the same time (for instance being Christian but also following African traditional rituals) something which suggests that religious boundaries are flexible and contextual.<ref>{{Cite book |chapter=African Traditional Religion in Contemporary Tanzanian Society |title=In Justice Rights and Worship: Religion and Politics in Tanzania |editor-first1=Rwekaza S. |editor-last1=Mukandala |editor-first2=S. |editor-last2=Yahya-Othman |editor-first3=S.S. |editor-last3=Mushi |editor-first4=L. |editor-last4=Ndumbaro |pages=97–114|last1=Masanja |first1=Patrick |first2=Yussuf |last2=Lawi |publisher=E & D Limited|year=2006|isbn=9987411312|location=Dar es Salaam}}</ref>

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According to a 2014 estimate by the '']'', 61.4% of the population was ], 35.2% was ], 1.8% practised traditional African religions, 1.4% were unaffiliated with any religion, and 0.2% followed other religions. However, according to the ] (ARDA), 55.3% of the population is Christian, 31.5% is Muslim, 11.3% practices traditional faiths, while 1.9% of the population is ] or adheres to other faiths as of 2020.<ref name="arda">{{cite web |url=https://www.thearda.com/world-religion/national-profiles?u=219c#S_2 |title=National/Regional Profiles: Religion Indexes Tanzania |publisher=Association of Religion Data Archives |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref> The ARDA estimates that most Tanzanian Muslims are Sunni, with a small Shia minority, as of 2020.<ref name="arda"/> Nearly the entire population of Zanzibar is Muslim.<ref name="factbook"/> Of Muslims, 16% are ], 20% are ], 40% are ], 20% are ], and 4% are ].<ref>Pew Forum on Religious & Public life. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2013.</ref> Most Shias in Tanzania are from Asian/Indian descent.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2007/90124.htm |title=Tanzania – International Religious Freedom Report 2007 |date=14 September 2007 |publisher=United States Department of State |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref> Notable Shias of ]/] heritage in Tanzania are ] or ].

Within the Christian community the ] is the largest group (51% all Christians).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pewforum.org/2010/04/15/executive-summary-islam-and-christianity-in-sub-saharan-africa/|title=Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa |last=Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life|year=2010 |website=PEW |access-date=21 January 2020}}</ref> Among the Protestants, the large number of ] and ] points to the German missionary past of the country, while the number of ] point to the British missionary history of Tanganyika. A growing number have adopted ], and ] likewise have an increasing presence because of external missionary activities from Scandinavia and the United States, especially during the first part of the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite book |title=A History of the Church in Africa |url=https://archive.org/details/historychurchafr00sund |url-access=limited |last1=Sundkler |first1=Bengt |first2=Christopher |last2=Steed |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0521583428 |location=Cambridge |page=1013}}</ref> All of them have had some influence in varying degrees from the Walokole movement (]), which has also been fertile ground for the spread of ] and Pentecostal groups.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Moritz |last=Fischer |title="The Spirit helps us in our weakness": Charismatization of Worldwide Christianity and the Quest for an Appropriate Pneumatology with Focus on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania |journal=] |year=2011 |volume=20 |pages=96–121|doi=10.1163/174552511X554573}}</ref> The country also has around 20,000 ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/2023-Service-Year-Report-of-Jehovahs-Witnesses-Worldwide/2023-Country-and-Territory-Reports/|title=2023 Country and Territory Reports|publisher=]|access-date=20 September 2024}}</ref>

There are also active communities of other religious groups, primarily on the mainland, such as ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108395.htm |title=Tanzania – International Religious Freedom Report 2008 |publisher=United States Department of State |date=19 September 2008 |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref>


===Languages=== ===Languages===
{{Main|Languages of Tanzania}} {{Main|Languages of Tanzania}}
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] ] are Tanzania's largest ethnic group.]]
Over 100 different ], making it the most linguistically diverse country in East Africa.<ref name=sim/> Among the languages spoken in Tanzania are all four of Africa's language families: ], ], ], and ].<ref name=sim/> ] and English are Tanzania's official languages.<ref name=sim>{{cite book|author1=Ulrich Ammon|author2=Norbert Dittmar|author3=Klaus J. Mattheier|title=Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LMZm0w0k1c4C&pg=PA1967|year=2006|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-018418-1|pages=1967–}}</ref>


More than 100 ], making it the most linguistically diverse country in East Africa.<ref name=sim/> Among the languages spoken are four of Africa's language families: ], ], ], and ].<ref name=sim/> There are no ''de jure'' official languages in Tanzania.<ref name="tzgov"/>
Swahili is used in parliamentary debate, in the lower courts, and as a medium of instruction in primary school; English is used in foreign trade, in diplomacy, in higher courts, and as a medium of instruction in secondary and higher education,<ref name=sim/> although the Tanzanian government plans to discontinue English as a language of instruction altogether.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://afkinsider.com/88774/tanzania-ditches-english-education-overhaul-plan/|agency=AFK Insider|title=Tanzania Ditches English In Education Overhaul Plan|date=17 February 2015|accessdate=23 February 2015}}</ref> In connection with his Ujamaa social policies, President Nyerere encouraged the use of Swahili as a means of unifying the country's many ethnic groups.<ref>{{cite book|author=Joshua A. Fishman Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences Yeshiva University (Emeritus)|title=Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ay0FmRjOLWMC&pg=PA361+|date= 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-976139-5|pages=361–}}</ref> Approximately 10% of Tanzanians speak Swahili as a first language, and up to 90% speak it as a second language.<ref name=sim/> Most Tanzanians thus speak both Swahili and a local language; many educated Tanzanians are trilingual, also speaking English.<ref>{{cite book|author=Quintin Winks|title=Tanzania – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5bM-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT145|date=2011|publisher=Kuperard|isbn=978-1-85733-625-2|pages=145–}}</ref><ref name=bj>{{cite book|author1=Colin Baker|author2=Sylvia Prys Jones|title=Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YgtSqB9oqDIC&pg=PA367|year=1998|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-85359-362-8|pages=367–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=François Grosjean|title=Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VqGpxZ9pDRgC&pg=PA8|year=1982|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-53092-8|pages=8–}}</ref> The widespread use and promotion of Swahili is contributing to the decline of smaller languages in the country.<ref name=sim/><ref>{{cite book|author=Matthias Brenzinger|title=Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iKHOeLDvUVgC&pg=PA86|year=1992|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-013404-9|pages=86–}}</ref> Young children increasingly speak Swahili as a first language, particularly in urban areas.<ref>{{cite book|title=Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F2SRqDzB50wC&pg=PA1026|date=2010|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-087775-4|pages=1026–}}</ref> Ethnic community languages (ECL, other than Kiswahili) are not allowed as language of instruction, neither are they taught as subject, though they might be used unofficially (illegally) in some cases in initial education. Television and radio programmes in ECL are prohibited, and it is nearly impossible to get a permission to publish a newspaper in ECL. There is no department of local or regional African Languages and Literatures at the University of Dar es Salaam.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Henry R.T. Muzale |author2= Josephat M. Rugemalira|url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/1802/muzalesmall.pdf|title=Researching and Documenting the Languages of Tanzania|journal= Language Documentation and Conservation|volume= 2|issue= 1 |date=June 2008|pages= 68–108}}</ref>


] is used in parliamentary debate, in the lower courts, and as a medium of instruction in primary school. English is used in foreign trade, in diplomacy, in higher courts, and as a medium of instruction in secondary and higher education.<ref name=sim/> The Tanzanian government, however, has plans to discontinue English as a language of instruction.<ref name="afkinsider.com"/> In connection with his ] social policies, President Nyerere encouraged the use of Swahili to help unify the country's many ethnic groups.<ref name="Joshua A. Fishman Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences Yeshiva University Emeritus 2001 361">{{cite book|author=Joshua A. Fishman Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences Yeshiva University (Emeritus)|title=Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ay0FmRjOLWMC&pg=PA361+|date= 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-976139-5|pages=361–}}</ref> Approximately 10 per cent of Tanzanians speak Swahili as a first language, and up to 90 per cent speak it as a second language.<ref name=sim/> Many educated Tanzanians are trilingual, also speaking English.<ref name="Quintin Winks 2011 145">{{cite book|first=Quintin|last=Winks|title=Tanzania – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5bM-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT145|date=2011|publisher=Kuperard|isbn=978-1-85733-625-2|pages=145–}}</ref><ref name=bj>{{cite book|first1=Colin|last1=Baker|author2=Sylvia Prys Jones|title=Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YgtSqB9oqDIC&pg=PA367|year=1998|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-85359-362-8|pages=367–}}</ref><ref name="François Grosjean 1982 8">{{cite book|first=François|last=Grosjean|title=Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism|url=https://archive.org/details/lifewithtwolangu0000gros|url-access=registration|year=1982|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-53092-8|pages=–}}</ref> The widespread use and promotion of Swahili is contributing to the decline of smaller languages in the country.<ref name=sim/><ref name="Matthias Brenzinger 1992 86">{{cite book|first=Matthias|last=Brenzinger|title=Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iKHOeLDvUVgC&pg=PA86|year=1992|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-013404-9|pages=86–}}</ref> Young children increasingly speak Swahili as a first language, particularly in urban areas.<ref name="Elsevier">{{cite book|title=Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F2SRqDzB50wC&pg=PA1026|date=2010|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-087775-4|pages=1026–}}</ref> Ethnic community languages (ECL) other than Kiswahili are not allowed as a language of instruction. Nor are they taught as a subject, though they might be used unofficially in some cases in initial education. Television and radio programmes in an ECL are prohibited, and it is nearly impossible to get permission to publish a newspaper in an ECL. There is no department of local or regional African Languages and Literatures at the University of Dar es Salaam.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Henry R.T. Muzale |first2=Josephat M. |last2=Rugemalira |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/1802/muzalesmall.pdf |title=Researching and Documenting the Languages of Tanzania |journal=Language Documentation and Conservation |volume=2 |issue=1 |date=June 2008 |pages=68–108}}</ref>
The ] speak a language that may be related to the ] of Botswana and Namibia, while the language of the ], although it has similar ]s, is arguably a ].<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger Blench|title=Archaeology, Language, and the African Past|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVc2AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163|date=2006|publisher=Rowman Altamira|isbn=978-0-7591-1421-0|pages=163–}}</ref> The language of the ] is Cushitic.<ref>. ''Ethnologue''.</ref>


The ] speak a language that may be related to the ] of Botswana and Namibia, while the language of the ], although it has similar ]s, is arguably a ].<ref>{{cite book |first=Roger |last=Blench |title=Archaeology, Language, and the African Past|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVc2AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163 |date=2006 |publisher=Rowman Altamira |isbn=978-0-7591-1421-0 |page=163}}</ref> The language of the ] is Cushitic.<ref>. ''Ethnologue''.</ref>
===Education===

===Education and Libraries===
{{Main|Education in Tanzania}} {{Main|Education in Tanzania}}
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Based on 2012 data, the literacy rate in Tanzania for persons aged 15 and over is estimated to be 67.8%.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/tanzania_statistics.html | title=Tanzania, United Republic of Statistics | publisher=UNICEF | accessdate=15 October 2014}}</ref> Education is compulsory until children reach age 15.<ref name="worst">{{cite web | url=http://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/child-labor/findings/2013TDA/tanzania.pdf | title=2013 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor | publisher=U.S. Department of Labor}}</ref> In 2010, 74.1% of children age 5 to 14 years were attending school.<ref name="worst"/> The primary school completion rate was 80.8% in 2012.<ref name="worst"/> In 2015, the literacy rate in Tanzania was 77.9% for people aged 15 and over (83.2% males, 73.1% females).<ref name="UNESCO_lit2015">{{cite web|url=http://uis.unesco.org/en/country/tz|title=Adult literacy rate, population 15+ years (both sexes, female, male)|publisher=]|work=] Data Centre|date=27 November 2016 |access-date=9 June 2022}}</ref> Education is compulsory until children reach age 15.<ref name="worst">{{cite web |url=https://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/child-labor/findings/2013TDA/tanzania.pdf |title=2013 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor |publisher=U.S. Department of Labor |access-date=23 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627081436/https://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/child-labor/findings/2013TDA/tanzania.pdf |archive-date=27 June 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2020, 97% completed primary (98.4% females and 95.5% males), 28.3% completed secondary (30% females and 27% males), and 8% completed tertiary education (7% females and 8.5% males).<ref name="unesco_educatoin">{{cite web |title=UNESCO United Republic of Tanzania |url=http://uis.unesco.org/en/country/tz |website=uis.unesco.org |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=9 June 2022 |language=en |date=2020}}</ref>

The Tanzania Library Services Board operates twenty-one regional, eighteen district, and one divisional library.<ref>Ilomo, C.S. "The history and work of Tanzania Library Service 1963–80. In ''Aspects of African Librarianship: A Collection of Writings''; Wise, M., Ed.; Mansell Publishing Limited: London, U.K., 1985; 98–153.</ref><ref>Mcharazo AA, Olden A.(2016) "Fifty years of Tanzania's national/public library service." ''Alexandria.'' (2):136-144.</ref>


===Healthcare=== ===Healthcare===
{{Main|Healthcare in Tanzania}} {{Main|Healthcare in Tanzania}}
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{{As of|2012}}, life expectancy at birth was 61 years.<ref name=who/> The under-five mortality rate in 2012 was 54 per 1,000 live births.<ref name=who>{{cite web |title=United Republic of Tanzania: Health Profile |url=https://www.who.int/entity/gho/countries/tza.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20131026102522/http://www.who.int/entity/gho/countries/tza.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 October 2013 |publisher=] |access-date=15 October 2014 |date=May 2014}}</ref> The ] rate in 2013 was estimated at 410 per 100,000 live births.<ref name=who/> ] and ] were tied in 2010 as the leading cause of death in children under five years old.<ref name="WHO World Health Statistics 2013">{{cite web |url=https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/81965/1/9789241564588_eng.pdf |title=World Health Statistics |publisher=World Health Organization |year=2013 |access-date=15 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023061041/http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/81965/1/9789241564588_eng.pdf |archive-date=23 October 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The other leading causes of death for these children were, in decreasing order, ], ], HIV, and ].<ref name="WHO World Health Statistics 2013"/>


Malaria in Tanzania causes death and disease and has a "huge economic impact".<ref name="Progress"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312022725/http://www.rbm.who.int/ProgressImpactSeries/docs/report10-en.pdf |date=12 March 2013}}</ref>{{rp|page 13}} There were approximately 11.5&nbsp;million cases of clinical malaria in 2008.<ref name="Progress"/>{{rp|page 12}} In 2007–08, malaria prevalence among children aged 6 months to five years was highest in the ] (41.1 per cent) on the western shore of Lake Victoria and lowest in the ] (0.1 per cent).<ref name="Progress"/>{{rp|page 12}}
As of 2012, life expectancy at birth was 61 years.<ref name=who/>


According to the 2010 ''Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2010'', 15 per cent of Tanzanian women had undergone ] (FGM)<ref name="DHS">, National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, April 2011</ref>{{rp|page 295}} and 72 per cent of Tanzanian men had been circumcised.<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|page 230}} FGM is most common in the ], ], ], and ] regions and nonexistent in ].<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|page 296}} The prevalence of male circumcision was above 90 per cent in the eastern<ref name="cnn091015" /> (], ], and ] regions), northern (], ], Arusha, and Manyara regions), and central areas (Dodoma and ] regions) and below 50 per cent only in the southern highlands zone (], ], and ] regions).<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|pages 6, 230}}
The under-five mortality rate in 2012 was 54 per 1,000 live births.<ref name=who>{{cite web | title=United Republic of Tanzania: Health Profile | url=http://www.who.int/entity/gho/countries/tza.pdf | publisher=] | accessdate=15 October 2014 | date=May 2014}}</ref> The ] rate in 2013 was estimated at 410 per 100,000 live births.<ref name=who/> ] and ] were tied in 2010 as the leading cause of death in children under 5 years old.<ref name="WHO World Health Statistics 2013">{{cite web | url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/81965/1/9789241564588_eng.pdf | title=World Health Statistics | publisher=World Health Organization | year=2013 | accessdate=15 October 2014}}</ref> The other leading causes of death for these children were, in decreasing order, ], ], ], and ].<ref name="WHO World Health Statistics 2013"/>


2012 data showed that 53 per cent of the population used improved drinking water sources (defined as a source that "by nature of its construction and design, is likely to protect the source from outside contamination, in particular from faecal matter") and 12 per cent used improved sanitation facilities (defined as facilities that "likely hygienically separates human excreta from human contact" but not including facilities shared with other households or open to public use).<ref>. World Health Organization.</ref>
Malaria in Tanzania causes death and disease and has a "huge economic impact".<ref name="Progress"></ref>{{rp|page 13}} There were approximately 11.5 million cases of clinical malaria in 2008.<ref name="Progress"/>{{rp|page 12}} In 2007–08, malaria prevalence among children aged 6 months to 5 years was highest in the ] (41.1%) on the western shore of Lake Victoria and lowest in the ] (0.1%).<ref name="Progress"/>{{rp|page 12}}


===Women===
According to the ''Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2010'', 15% of Tanzanian women have undergone ] (FGM)<ref name="DHS">, National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, April 2011</ref>{{rp|page 295}} and 72% of Tanzanian men have been circumcised.<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|page 230}} FGM is most common in the ], ], ], and ] regions and nonexistent in ].<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|page 296}} The prevalence of male circumcision was above 90% in the eastern (], ], and ] regions), northern (], ], Arusha, and Manyara regions), and central zones (Dodoma and ] regions) and below 50% only in the southern highlands zone (], ], and ] regions).<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|pages 6, 230}}
]
{{Main|Women in Tanzania}}
Women and men have equality before the law.<ref name="cedaw">{{cite web |url=http://www.refworld.org/country,,CEDAW,,TZA,,56a88e944,0.html|title=Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention, Seventh and eighth periodic reports of States parties due in 2014 : United Republic of Tanzania|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=3 December 2014|publisher=UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)|access-date=17 October 2017}}</ref>
The government signed the ] (CEDAW) in 1985.<ref name="cedaw"/>
Nearly 3 out of ten women reported having experienced ] before the age of 18.
<ref name="cedaw"/> The prevalence of ] has decreased.<ref name="cedaw"/>
School girls are reinstated back to school after delivery.<ref name="cedaw"/>
The Police Force administration strives to separate the Gender Desks from normal police operations to enhance confidentiality of the processing of women victims of abuse.<ref name="cedaw"/>
Most of the abuses and violence against women and children occurs at the family level.<ref name="cedaw"/>
The ] requires that women constitute at least 30% of all elected members of ].<ref name="cedaw"/> The gender differences in education and training have implications later in life of these women and girls.<ref name="cedaw"/>
Unemployment is higher for females than for males.<ref name="cedaw"/> The right of a female employee to ] is guaranteed in labour law.<ref name="cedaw"/>


==Culture==
2012 data showed that 53% of the population used improved drinking water sources (defined as a source that "by nature of its construction and design, is likely to protect the source from outside contamination, in particular from faecal matter") and 12% used improved sanitation facilities (defined as facilities that "likely hygienically separates human excreta from human contact" but not including facilities shared with other households or open to public use).<ref>. ''who.int''.</ref>
{{Main|Culture of Tanzania}}


===HIV/AIDS=== ===Media===
{{Main|HIV/AIDS in Tanzania}} {{Main|Mass media in Tanzania}}
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=== Music ===
The ] estimated in 2012 that the prevalence of HIV was 3.1%,<ref name=who/> although the ''Tanzania HIV/AIDS and Malaria Indicator Survey 2011–12'' found that, on average, 5.1% of those tested in the 15 to 49 age group were HIV-positive.<ref>] (TACAIDS) and the Zanzibar Commission for AIDS; implemented by the ] in collaboration with the Office of the Chief Government Statistician (Zanzibar); funded by the ], TACAIDS, and the ], with support provided by ]; data collected 16 December 2011 to 24 May 2012; report published in Dar es Salaam in March 2013]</ref> ] treatment coverage for people living with HIV was 37% in 2013, compared to 19% in 2011.<ref>. World Bank.</ref> According to a 2013 report published by the ] that compares 2012 with 2001 data, AIDS deaths have decreased 33%, new HIV infections have decreased 36%, and new HIV infections among children have decreased 67%.<ref>{{cite web | title=Global report: UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic 2013 | url=http://www.unaids.org/en/media/unaids/contentassets/documents/epidemiology/2013/gr2013/UNAIDS_Global_Report_2013_en.pdf | format=PDF | publisher=Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS}}</ref>
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As in other countries, the music in Tanzania is constantly undergoing changes, and varies by location, people, settings and occasion. The five music genres in Tanzania, as defined by ] are, ], ], ], and ], with ] being added in 2001.<ref name="Askew_02">{{Cite book |last=Askew |first=Kelly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i7riV5SvDe8C |title=Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania |publisher=] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-226-02981-8 |location=] |pages=27–67, 276 |language=en |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622125241/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Performing_the_Nation/i7riV5SvDe8C?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Ivaska_11">{{cite book |last1=Ivaska |first1=Andrew |title=Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar Es Salaam |date=2011 |publisher=] |location=] |isbn=978-0-8223-4770-5 |page=78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVxVFJRiRO8C |access-date=5 June 2022 |language=en |archive-date=5 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605084059/https://books.google.com/books?id=lVxVFJRiRO8C |url-status=live}}</ref> Singeli has since the mid-2000s been an unofficial music of ''uswahilini'', unplanned communities in ], and is the newest mainstream genre since 2020.<ref name="Hutchinson_18">{{cite news |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Kate |title='This cuts across society': how singeli music went from Tanzania to the world |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/17/this-cuts-across-society-how-singeli-music-went-from-tanzania-to-the-world |access-date=26 June 2022 |work=] |date=17 December 2018 |location=] |language=en}}</ref>
==Culture==


Ngoma ''(Bantu, meaning dance, drum and event)''<ref name="Stone_08">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XEeTAgAAQBAJ |title=The Garland Handbook of African Music |publisher=] |year=2008 |isbn=9781135900014 |editor-last=Stone |editor-first=Ruth M. |location=] |pages=14, 46–50, 136–137 |language=en |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622125242/https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Garland_Handbook_of_African_Music/XEeTAgAAQBAJ?hl=en |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Kaduma_78">{{Cite thesis |last=Kaduma |first=Godwin Z. |title=A theatrical description of five Tanzanian dances. |publisher=] |place=Dar es Salaam |year=1978}}</ref> is a traditional dance music that has been the most widespread music in Tanzania.<ref name="Njogu_07">{{Cite book |last1=Njogu |first1=Kimani |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q_lWEAAAQBAJ |title=Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa |last2=Maupeu |first2=Herv |publisher=] |year=2007 |isbn=978-9987-08-108-0 |location=] |pages=241–246 |language=en |chapter=Music and Politics in Tanzania: a case study of Nyota-wa-Cigogo |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622125242/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Songs_and_Politics_in_Eastern_Africa/q_lWEAAAQBAJ?hl=en |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Edmondson_07">{{Cite book |last=Edmondson |first=Laura |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7EPcIVSHESEC |title=Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage |publisher=] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-253-11705-2 |editor-last=McNaughton |editor-first=Patrick |location=] |language=en |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622125242/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Performance_and_Politics_in_Tanzania/7EPcIVSHESEC?hl=en |url-status=live}}</ref> Dansi is urban jazz or band music.<ref name="Njogu_07" /><ref name="Mahenge_22">{{Cite journal |last=Mahenge |first=Elizabeth |date=2022-04-16 |title=Matumizi ya Mbinu ya Usimulizi katika Kuibua Dhamira ya Ukombozi wa Kisiasa Kusini mwa Afrika: Uchunguzi wa Nyimbo Teule za Muziki wa Dansi nchini Tanzania 1940-1990 |trans-title=Use of Narrative Techniques in Raising the Demand for Political Liberation in Southern Africa: An Examination of Selected Dance Music Songs in Tanzania 1940-1990 |url=http://www.journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/mj/article/view/4823 |journal=] |volume=40 |language=sw |issue=40}}</ref> Taarab is sung ] poetry accompanied by a band, typically string, in which audience is often, but not always, encouraged to dance and clap.<ref name="Njogu_07" /> Kwaya was choir music originally limited to church during colonization, but is now a secular part of educational, social, and political events.<ref name="Stone_08" /><ref name="Edmondson_07" />
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] is Tanzanian pop music originating in the early 2000s from ''muziki wa kizazi kipya'', meaning "Music of the new generation", which originated in the late 1980s. Kizazi kipya's dominant influences were ], ], and ], where as the later bongo flava's dominant influences are taarab and dansi.<ref name="Kerr_18">{{cite journal |last1=Kerr |first1=David |title=From the margins to the mainstream: making and remaking an alternative music economy in Dar es Salaam |journal=] |date=2018-01-02 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=65–80 |doi=10.1080/13696815.2015.1125776 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1125776 |publisher=] |s2cid=146229942 |language=en |issn=1369-6815 |access-date=5 June 2022 |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622130033/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13696815.2015.1125776 |url-status=live}}</ref> Three recent influence on bongo flava are ] in the 2010s, as well as ] from ] and singeli from Tanzania, both since 2020.<ref name="Suriano_11">{{Cite journal |last=Suriano |first=Maria |title=Hip-Hop and Bongo Flavour Music in Contemporary Tanzania: Youths' Experiences, Agency, Aspirations and Contradictions |url=https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ad/article/view/74118 |journal=] |year=2011 |volume=36 |issue=3–4 |pages=113–126 |doi=10.1080/00020184.2011.628800 |s2cid=163049425 |issn=0850-3907 |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=2 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602182528/https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ad/article/view/74118 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Perullo_05">{{Cite journal |last=Perullo |first=Alex |year=2005 |title=Hooligans and heroes: Youth identity and hip-hop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4187688 |journal=] |publisher=] |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=75–101 |doi=10.1353/at.2005.0045 |jstor=4187688 |s2cid=144975952 |access-date=5 June 2022 |archive-date=9 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609092118/https://www.jstor.org/stable/4187688 |url-status=live}}</ref> Singeli is a ngoma music that originated in Manzese, an uswahilini in north-west Dar es Salaam. A MC performs over fast tempo taarab music, often at between 200 and 300 ] while females dance. Styles between MC gender typically differ significantly. Male MCs usually perform in fast-paced rap, while female MCs usually perform kwaya.<ref name="Hutchinson_18" />
===Music===
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From independence until 1993, all recording and distribution of music was strictly managed by BASATA, primarily through ] (RTD).<ref name="Perullo_07">{{cite book |last1=Perullo |first1=Alex |editor1-last=Brennan |editor1-first=James R |title=Dar es Salaam. Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis |date=2007 |publisher=] and ] |isbn=978-9987-08-107-3 |pages=250–272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8PdWEAAAQBAJ |language=en |chapter=" Here's a Little Something Local": An Early History of Hip Hop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1984-1997 |access-date=5 June 2022 |archive-date=5 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605084058/https://books.google.com/books?id=8PdWEAAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}</ref> Only the four Tanzanian genres were permitted to be recorded or broadcast, which at the time was ngoma, taarab, kwaya and dansi. The Broadcasting Services Act of 1993 allowed private broadcast networks and recording studios.<ref>{{Cite act |date={{date|1994-06-11|mdy}} |type=Act |legislature=Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania |title=The Broadcasting Services Act, 1993 |language=en |url=https://tadio.co.tz/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Tanzania-broadcasting-Act-6-of-1993-1.pdf |access-date=9 June 2022 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927135508/https://tadio.co.tz/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Tanzania-broadcasting-Act-6-of-1993-1.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Perullo |first1=Alex |title=Live from Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania's Music Economy |date=2011 |publisher=] |location=]: ] |isbn=978-0-253-00150-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VePJDAAAQBAJ |access-date=5 June 2022 |archive-date=5 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605084058/https://books.google.com/books?id=VePJDAAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}</ref> In the few years prior to the 1993 Act hip hop had been getting somewhat established in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Mwanza. It was transitioning from English performances of hip hop originating in uzunguni, rich areas like Oysterbay and Masaki with international schools, to Kiswahili performances of kizazi kipya, originating in uswahilini.<ref name="Saleh_J">{{cite web |last1=Nne |first1=Juma |title=Saleh J – Tanzanian Swahili rap pioneer |url=https://www.africanhiphop.com/saleh-j-tanzanian-swahili-rap-pioneer/ |website=Africanhiphop.com |access-date=5 June 2022 |language=en |date=2001-10-01 |archive-date=21 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421082113/https://www.africanhiphop.com/saleh-j-tanzanian-swahili-rap-pioneer/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Following the opening of the radio waves, bongo flava spreading throughout the country, and the rest of the Great Lakes.<ref name="Kerr_18" />
The ] includes traditional ], string-based ], and a distinctive ] known as ]. Famous taarab singers include Abbasi Mzee, Culture Musical Club, Shakila of Black Star Musical Group. Internationally known traditional artists include ], ], and Tatu Nane. Tanzania also has its own distinct African rumba music, termed ] ("dance music"); important artists include ], ], and ]. ], of the band ], was born in Tanzania.


===Literature=== ==== National anthem ====
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The Tanzanian national anthem is "]" (God Bless Africa). It has kiswahili lyrics adapted for "]" composed by South African composer ] in 1897.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104014124/http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/enoch-mankayi-sontonga |date=4 November 2013}}, SAHistory.org.za, access-date 2020-1-22</ref> "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" became a pan-African song adapted into the current national anthems for Tanzania, ], and following the end of apartheid ].<ref name="Millennium">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_VRAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Sajiwandani%22 |title=''Millennium'' |publisher=Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services |date=2000 |page=3}}</ref> It was previously used in the national anthems for ] and ], but has since been replaced by original new anthems. Another patriotic song is ].
Tanzania's literary culture is primarily oral.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 68}} Major oral literary forms include folktales, poems, riddles, proverbs, and songs.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 69}} The greatest part of Tanzania's recorded oral literature is in Swahili, even though each of the country's languages has its own oral tradition.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|pages 68–9}} The country's oral literature has been declining because of the breakdown of the multigenerational social structure, making transmission of oral literature more difficult, and because increasing modernisation has been accompanied by the devaluation of oral literature.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 69}}


=== Literature ===
Tanzania's written literary tradition is relatively undeveloped. Tanzania does not have a lifelong reading culture, and books are often expensive and hard to come by.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 75}}<ref name="Doling">Tim Doling (1999) ''Tanzania Arts Directory''. Visiting Arts</ref>{{rp|page 16}} Most Tanzanian literature is in Swahili or English.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 75}} Major figures in Tanzanian written literature include ] (considered the father of Swahili literature), ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|pages 76–8}}
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Tanzania's literary culture is primarily oral.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 68}} Major oral literary forms include folktales, poems, riddles, proverbs, and songs.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 69}} The greatest part of Tanzania's recorded oral literature is in Swahili, even though each of the country's languages has its own oral tradition.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|pages 68–69}} The country's oral literature has been declining because of the breakdown of the multigenerational social structure, making transmission of oral literature more difficult, and because increasing modernisation has been accompanied by the devaluation of oral literature.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 69}}
===Painting and sculpture===
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Books in Tanzania are often expensive and hard to come by.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 75}}<ref name="Doling">Tim Doling (1999) ''Tanzania Arts Directory''. Visiting Arts</ref>{{rp|page 16}} Most Tanzanian literature is in Swahili or English.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 75}} Major figures in Tanzanian written literature include ] (considered the father of Swahili literature), ], Muhammed Saley Farsy, Faraji Katalambulla, Adam Shafi Adam, ], ], Said Ahmed Mohammed Khamis, Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed, ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|pages 76–8}}
Historically, there have been only limited opportunities for formal European art training in Tanzania, and many aspiring Tanzanian artists have left the country to pursue their vocation.<ref name="Doling"/>{{rp|papge 17}} One of the most famous African artists – ] – was born in Tanzania.
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=== Painting and sculpture ===
Two Tanzanian art styles have achieved international recognition.<ref name="Doling"/>{{rp|papge 17}} The ] school of painting, founded by ], consists of brightly coloured enamel paintings on canvas, generally depicting people, animals, or daily life.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 113}}<ref name="Doling"/>{{rp|papge 17}} After Tingatinga's death in 1972, other artists adopted and developed his style, with the genre now being the most important tourist-oriented style in East Africa.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 113}}<ref name="Doling"/>{{rp|papge 17}} Makonde is both a ] in Tanzania and Mozambique and a ]. It is known for the high Ujamaas (Trees of Life) made of the hard and dark ebony tree.


Two Tanzanian art styles have achieved international recognition.<ref name="Doling"/>{{rp|p. 17}} The ] school of painting, founded by ], consists of brightly coloured enamel paintings on canvas, generally depicting people, animals, or daily life.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|p. 113}}<ref name="Doling"/>{{rp|p. 17}} After Tingatinga's death in 1972, other artists adopted and developed his style, with the genre now being the most important tourist-oriented style in East Africa.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|p. 113}}<ref name="Doling"/>{{rp|p. 17}}
===Food===
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Historically, there were limited opportunities for formal European art training in Tanzania and many aspiring Tanzanian artists left the country to pursue their vocation.<ref name="Doling"/>{{rp|p. 17}}
One of Tanzania's, and other parts of eastern Africa's, most common dishes is ]. It is usually composed of corn and is similar in consistency to a stiff paste or porridge, giving it its second name of corn meal porridge. Mixtures of cassava and millet flours are locally used for ugali. Rice and cooked green bananas are also important staples. Beef, goat meat, beans, yoghurt, and a wide range of fish and green leafy vegetables all add nutrients to the dishes.


===Sports=== === Sports ===
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] is very popular throughout the country.<ref name="Wairagala">{{cite book|author=Wakabi Wairagala|title=Tanzania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tViQJkGh06YC&pg=PA36|year=2004|publisher=Gareth Stevens Pub.|isbn=978-0-8368-3119-1|pages=36–}}</ref> The most popular ] in ] are the ] and ]<ref>{{cite book|author=Annabel Skinner|title=Tanzania & Zanzibar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yF5KZPlooGIC&pg=PA96|year=2005|publisher=New Holland Publishers|isbn=978-1-86011-216-4|pages=96–}}</ref> The ] is the governing body for football in the country. ] is very popular throughout the country.<ref name="Wairagala">{{cite book |first=Wakabi |last=Wairagala |title=Tanzania |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tViQJkGh06YC&pg=PA36 |year=2004 |publisher=Gareth Stevens Pub. |isbn=978-0-8368-3119-1 |page=36}}</ref> The most popular ] in Dar es Salaam are the ] and ]<ref>{{cite book |first=Annabel |last=Skinner |title=Tanzania & Zanzibar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yF5KZPlooGIC&pg=PA96 |year=2005 |publisher=New Holland Publishers |isbn=978-1-86011-216-4 |page=96 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The ] is the governing body for football in the country.


Other popular sports include ], boxing, ], ], and ].<ref name="Wairagala"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Bev Pritchett|title=Tanzania in Pictures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoKnbA1c1DsC&pg=PA53|date= 2007|publisher=Twenty-First Century Books|isbn=978-0-8225-8571-8|pages=53–}}</ref> Other popular sports include ], ], boxing, ], ], and ].<ref name="Wairagala"/><ref>{{cite book|first=Bev|last=Pritchett|title=Tanzania in Pictures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoKnbA1c1DsC&pg=PA53|date= 2007|publisher=Twenty-First Century Books|isbn=978-0-8225-8571-8|pages=53–}}</ref> The National Sports Council also known as Baraza la Michezo la Taifa is the governing body for sports in the country under the Ministry of Information, Youth, Sports and Culture.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tanzaniasports.com/sportbodies/nsc/|title=NSC|website=Tanzania Sports|date=October 2011|language=en-US|access-date=5 January 2020}}</ref>


=== Cinema ===
Tanzania competes in the ], the ], the ], the ], the ], the ], the ], and the ].
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Tanzania has a popular film industry known as "Bongo Movie".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-02 |title=Investments key to Bongo films growth |url=https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/magazines/the-beat/investments-key-to-bongo-films-growth-2576026 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=The Citizen |language=en}}</ref> It also hosts an international film festival, the ].


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Country in East Africa

This article is about the country in East Africa. For other uses, see Tanzania (disambiguation).

United Republic of TanzaniaJamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania (Swahili)
Flag of Tanzania Flag Coat of arms of Tanzania Coat of arms
Motto: "Uhuru na Umoja""Freedom and Unity"
Anthem: "Mungu ibariki Afrika"
"God bless Africa"
Location of Tanzania
CapitalDodoma
6°10′S 35°44′E / 6.167°S 35.733°E / -6.167; 35.733
Largest cityDar es Salaam
06°48′S 39°16′E / 6.800°S 39.267°E / -6.800; 39.267
Official languages
Other languagesOver 100 languages, including (1m+):
Religion (2020)
Demonym(s)Tanzanian
GovernmentUnitary dominant-party presidential republic
• President Samia Suluhu Hassan
• Vice-President Philip Mpango
• Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa
• Speaker Tulia Ackson
• Chief Justice Ibrahim Hamis Juma
LegislatureNational Assembly
Independence from the United Kingdom
• Tanganyika 9 December 1961
• Zanzibar 10 December 1963
• Unification of Tanganyika and Zanzibar 26 April 1964
• Current constitution 25 April 1977
Area
• Total947,303 km (365,756 sq mi) (30th)
• Water (%)6.4
Population
• 2024 estimate67,462,121 (23rd)
• 2022 censusNeutral increase 61,741,120
• Density65.2/km (168.9/sq mi) (147th)
GDP (PPP)2024 estimate
• TotalIncrease $269.67 billion (68th)
• Per capitaIncrease $4,130 (161st)
GDP (nominal)2024 estimate
• TotalDecrease $83.276billion (82nd)
• Per capitaDecrease $1,234 (166th)
Gini (2017)Negative increase 40.5
medium inequality
HDI (2022)Decrease 0.532
low (167th)
CurrencyTanzanian shilling (TZS)
Time zoneUTC+3 (East Africa Time)
Calling code+255
ISO 3166 codeTZ
Internet TLD.tz

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. According to the 2022 national census, Tanzania has a population of around 62 million, making it the most populous country located entirely south of the equator.

Many important hominid fossils have been found in Tanzania. In the Stone and Bronze Age, prehistoric migrations into Tanzania included Southern Cushitic speakers similar to modern day Iraqw people who moved south from present-day Ethiopia; Eastern Cushitic people who moved into Tanzania from north of Lake Turkana about 2,000 and 4,000 years ago; and the Southern Nilotes, including the Datoog, who originated from the present-day South Sudan–Ethiopia border region between 2,900 and 2,400 years ago. These movements took place at about the same time as the settlement of the Mashariki Bantu from West Africa in the Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika areas. In the late 19th century, the mainland came under German rule as German East Africa, and this was followed by British rule after World War I when it was governed as Tanganyika, with the Zanzibar Archipelago remaining a separate colonial jurisdiction. Following their respective independence in 1961 and 1963, the two entities merged in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. Tanganyika joined the British Commonwealth and Tanzania remains a member of the Commonwealth as a unified republic.

Today, the country is a presidential constitutional republic with the federal capital located in Government City (Dodoma); the former capital, Dar es Salaam, retains most government offices and is the country's largest city, principal port, and leading commercial centre. Tanzania is a de facto one-party state with the democratic socialist Chama Cha Mapinduzi party in power. The country has not experienced major internal strife since independence and is seen as one of the safest and most politically stable on the continent. Tanzania's population comprises about 120 ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups. Christianity is the largest religion in Tanzania, with substantial Muslim and Animist minorities. Over 100 languages are spoken in Tanzania, making it the most linguistically diverse country in East Africa; the country does not have a de jure official language, although the national language is Swahili. English is used in foreign trade, in diplomacy, in higher courts, and as a medium of instruction in secondary and higher education, while Arabic is spoken in Zanzibar.

Tanzania is mountainous and densely forested in the north-east, where Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa and the highest single free-standing mountain above sea level in the world, is located. Three of the African Great Lakes are partly within Tanzania. To the north and west lie Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, and Lake Tanganyika, the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish. To the south lies Lake Malawi. The eastern shore is hot and humid, with the Zanzibar Archipelago just offshore. The Menai Bay Conservation Area is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area. The Kalambo Falls, located on the Kalambo River at the Zambian border, is the second-highest uninterrupted waterfall in Africa. Tanzania is one of the most visited tourist destinations for safaris.

Etymology

The name Tanzania was created as a clipped compound of the names of the two states that unified to create the country: Tanganyika and Zanzibar. It consists of the first three letters of the names of the two states ("Tan" and "Zan") and the suffix "-ia."

The name Tanganyika is derived from the Swahili words tanga "sail" and nyika "uninhabited plain, wilderness", creating the phrase "sail in the wilderness". It is sometimes understood as a reference to Lake Tanganyika.

The name of Zanzibar derives from Zanj, the name of a local people (said to mean "black"), and Arabic barr "coast" or "shore."

History

Main articles: History of Tanzania and History of Zanzibar
A 1.8-million-year-old stone chopping tool discovered at Olduvai Gorge and on display at the British Museum

Ancient

Tanzania is one of the oldest continuously inhabited areas on Earth. Traces of fossil remains of humans and hominids date back to the Quaternary era. The Olduvai Gorge, in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, features a collection with remnants of tools that document the development and use of transitional technology.

The indigenous populations of eastern Africa are thought to be the linguistically isolated Hadza and Sandawe hunter-gatherers of Tanzania.

The first wave of migration was by Southern Cushitic speakers who moved south from Ethiopia and Somalia into Tanzania. They are ancestral to the Iraqw, Gorowa, and Burunge. Based on linguistic evidence, there may also have been two movements into Tanzania of Eastern Cushitic people at about 4,000 and 2,000 years ago, originating from north of Lake Turkana.

Archaeological evidence supports the conclusion that Southern Nilotes, including the Datoog, moved south from the present-day South Sudan / Ethiopia border region into central northern Tanzania between 2,900 and 2,400 years ago.

These movements took place at approximately the same time as the settlement of the iron-making Mashariki (Eastern) Bantu from West Africa in the Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika areas, as part of the centuries-long Bantu expansion. The Bantu peoples brought with them the west African planting tradition and the primary staple of yams. They subsequently migrated out of these regions across the rest of Tanzania between 2,300 and 1,700 years ago.

Eastern Nilotic peoples, including the Maasai, represent a more recent migration from present-day South Sudan within the past 500 to 1,500 years.

The people of Tanzania have been associated with the production of iron and steel. The Pare people were the main producers of sought-after iron for peoples who occupied the mountain regions of north-eastern Tanzania. The Haya people on the western shores of Lake Victoria invented a type of high-heat blast furnace, which allowed them to forge carbon steel at temperatures exceeding 1,820 °C (3,310 °F) more than 1,500 years ago.

Travelers and merchants from the Persian Gulf and India have visited the east African coast since early in the first millennium AD. Islam was practiced by some on the Swahili Coast as early as the eighth or ninth century AD.

Medieval

Bantu-speakers built farming and trade villages along the Tanzanian coast from the outset of the first millennium. Archaeological finds at Fukuchani, on the north-west coast of Zanzibar, indicate a settled agricultural and fishing community from the 6th century CE at the latest. The considerable amount of daub found indicates timber buildings, and shell beads, bead grinders, and iron slag have been found at the site. There is evidence for limited engagement in long-distance trade: a small amount of imported pottery has been found, less than 1% of total pottery finds, mostly from the Gulf and dated to the 5th to 8th century. The similarity to contemporary sites such as Mkokotoni and Dar es Salaam indicate a unified group of communities that developed into the first centre of coastal maritime culture. The coastal towns appear to have been engaged in Indian Ocean and inland African trade at this early period. Trade rapidly increased in importance and quantity beginning in the mid-8th century and by the close of the 10th century Zanzibar was one of the central Swahili trading towns.

Growth in Egyptian and Persian shipping from the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf revitalised Indian Ocean trade, particularly after the Fatimid Caliphate relocated to Fustat (Cairo). Swahili agriculturalists built increasingly dense settlements to tap into trade, these forming the earliest Swahili city-states. The Venda-Shona Kingdoms of Mapungubwe and Zimbabwe in South Africa and Zimbabwe, respectively, became a major producer of gold around this same period. Economic, social, and religious power was increasingly vested in Kilwa, Tanzania's major medieval city-state. Kilwa controlled a number of smaller ports stretching down to modern-day Mozambique. Sofala became the major gold emporium and Kilwa grew rich off the trade, lying at the southern end of the Indian Ocean Monsoons. Kilwa's major rivals lay to the north, in modern-day Kenya, namely Mombasa and Malindi. Kilwa remained the major power in East Africa until the arrival of the Portuguese at the end of the 15th century.

Colonial

Main articles: German East Africa and Tanganyika Territory
A 1572 depiction of the city of Kilwa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Claiming the coastal strip, Omani Sultan Said bin Sultan moved his capital to Zanzibar City in 1840. During this time, Zanzibar became the centre for the east African slave trade. Between 65 and 90 per cent of the Swahili population of Zanzibar was enslaved. One of the most infamous slave traders on the East African coast was Tippu Tip, who was the grandson of an enslaved African. The Nyamwezi slave traders operated under the leadership of Msiri and Mirambo. According to Timothy Insoll, "Figures record the exporting of 718,000 slaves from the Swahili coast during the 19th century, and the retention of 769,000 on the coast." In the 1890s, slavery was abolished.

Battle during the Maji Maji Rebellion against German colonial rule in 1905

In 1863, the Holy Ghost Mission established an early reception center and depot at Zanzibar. In 1877, responding to appeals of Henry Stanley following his trans-Africa expedition, and permission being given to Stanley by King Mutessa I of Buganda, the Church Missionary Society sent missionaries Edward Baxter and Henry Cole to establish inland missions. In 1885, Germany conquered the regions that are now Tanzania (minus Zanzibar) and incorporated them into German East Africa (GEA). The Supreme Council of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference awarded all of GEA to Britain on 7 May 1919, over the strenuous objections of Belgium. The British colonial secretary, Alfred Milner, and Belgium's minister plenipotentiary to the conference, Pierre Orts [fr], then negotiated the Anglo-Belgian agreement of 30 May 1919 where Britain ceded the north-western GEA provinces of Ruanda and Urundi to Belgium. The conference's Commission on Mandates ratified this agreement on 16 July 1919. The Supreme Council accepted the agreement on 7 August 1919. On 12 July 1919, the Commission on Mandates agreed that the small Kionga Triangle south of the Rovuma River would be given to Portuguese Mozambique, with it eventually becoming part of independent Mozambique. The commission reasoned that Germany had virtually forced Portugal to cede the triangle in 1894. The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, although the treaty did not take effect until 10 January 1920. On that date, the GEA was transferred officially to Britain, Belgium, and Portugal. Also on that date, "Tanganyika" became the name of the British territory. In the mid-1920s, the British implemented a system of indirect rule in Tanzania.

The Maji Maji Rebellion, between 1905 and 1907, was an uprising of several African tribes in German East Africa against the colonial authorities, in particular because of forced labour and deportation of certain tribes. It was the subject of a bloody repression, which combined with famine caused 300,000 deaths among the population, out of a Tanganyikan population of about four million.

During World War II, about 100,000 people from Tanganyika joined the Allied forces and were among the 375,000 Africans who fought with those forces. Tanganyikans fought in units of the King's African Rifles during the East African Campaign in Somalia and Abyssinia against the Italians, in Madagascar against the Vichy French during the Madagascar Campaign, and in Burma against the Japanese during the Burma Campaign. Tanganyika was an important source of food during this war, and its export income increased greatly compared to the pre-war years of the Great Depression. Wartime demand, however, caused increased commodity prices and massive inflation within the colony.

In 1954, Julius Nyerere transformed an organisation into the politically oriented Tanganyika African National Union (TANU). TANU's main objective was to achieve national sovereignty for Tanganyika. A campaign to register new members was launched, and within a year, TANU had become the leading political organisation in the country. Nyerere became Minister of British-administered Tanganyika in 1960 and continued as prime minister when Tanganyika became independent in 1961.

Modern

British rule came to an end on 9 December 1961. Elizabeth II, who had acceded to the British throne in 1952, continued to reign through the first year of Tanganyika's independence, but now distinctly as Queen of Tanganyika, represented by the governor general. Tanganyika also joined the British Commonwealth in 1961. On 9 December 1962, Tanganyika became a democratic republic under an executive president.

After the Zanzibar Revolution overthrew the Arab dynasty in neighbouring Zanzibar, accompanied with the slaughter of thousands of Arab Zanzibaris, which had become independent in 1963, the archipelago merged with mainland Tanganyika on 26 April 1964. The new country was then named the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. On 29 October of the same year, the country was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania ("Tan" comes from Tanganyika and "Zan" from Zanzibar). The union of the two hitherto separate regions was controversial among many Zanzibaris (even those sympathetic to the revolution) but was accepted by both the Nyerere government and the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar owing to shared political values and goals.

Following Tanganyika's independence and unification with Zanzibar leading to the state of Tanzania, President Nyerere emphasised a need to construct a national identity for the citizens of the new country. To achieve this, Nyerere provided what is regarded as one of the most successful cases of ethnic repression and identity transformation in Africa. With more than 130 languages spoken within its territory, Tanzania is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Africa. Despite this obstacle, ethnic divisions remained rare in Tanzania when compared to the rest of the continent, notably its immediate neighbour, Kenya. Furthermore, since its independence, Tanzania has displayed more political stability than most African countries, particularly due to Nyerere's ethnic repression methods.

The Arusha Declaration Monument

In 1967, Nyerere's first presidency took a turn to the left after the Arusha Declaration, which codified a commitment to socialism as well as Pan-Africanism. After the declaration, banks and many large industries were nationalised.

Tanzania was also aligned with China, which from 1970 to 1975 financed and helped build the 1,860-kilometre-long (1,160 mi) TAZARA Railway from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Kapiri-Mposhi, Zambia. Nonetheless, from the late 1970s, Tanzania's economy took a turn for the worse, in the context of an international economic crisis affecting both developed and developing economies.

In 1978, the neighbouring Uganda, under the leadership of Idi Amin, invaded Tanzania. This disastrous invasion would culminate in Tanzania invading Uganda with the aid of Ugandan rebels and deposing Idi Amin as a result. However, the war severely damaged Tanzania's economy.

Through the 1980s, conservation oriented national parks such as Serengeti and Kilimanjaro, with Mount Kilimanjaro as the tallest freestanding summit on Earth, were included on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

From the mid-1980s, the regime financed itself by borrowing from the International Monetary Fund and underwent some reforms. Since then, Tanzania's gross domestic product per capita has grown and poverty has been reduced, according to a report by the World Bank.

In 1992, the Constitution of Tanzania was amended to allow multiple political parties. In Tanzania's first multi-party elections, held in 1995, the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi won 186 of the 232 elected seats in the National Assembly, and Benjamin Mkapa was elected as president.

The presidents of Tanzania since Independence have been Julius Nyerere 1962–1985, Ali Hassan Mwinyi 1985–1995, Benjamin Mkapa 1995–2005, Jakaya Kikwete 2005–2015, John Magufuli 2015–2021, and Samia Hassan Suluhu since 2021. After the long tenure of president Nyerere, the Constitution has a term limit: a president can serve a maximum of two terms. Each term is five years. Every president has represented the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM). President Magufuli won a landslide victory and re-election in October 2020. According to the opposition, the election was full of fraud and irregularities.

On 17 March 2021, President John Magufuli died in office. Magufuli's vice president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, became Tanzania's first female president.

Geography

Main articles: Geography of Tanzania and Zanzibar Archipelago An elephant passing by the snow-capped Mount KilimanjaroNgorongoro Crater, the world's largest inactive and intact volcanic caldera

At 947,403 square kilometres (365,794 sq mi), Tanzania is the 13th largest country in Africa and the 31st largest in the world, ranked between the larger Egypt and smaller Nigeria. It borders Kenya and Uganda to the north; Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. Tanzania is located on the eastern coast of Africa and has an Indian Ocean coastline approximately 1,424 kilometres (885 mi) long. It also incorporates several offshore islands, including Unguja (Zanzibar), Pemba, and Mafia. The country is the site of Africa's highest and lowest points: Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,895 metres (19,341 ft) above sea level, and the floor of Lake Tanganyika, at 1,471 metres (4,826 ft) below sea level, respectively.

Wildebeest migration in the Serengeti

Tanzania is mountainous and densely forested in the northeast, where Mount Kilimanjaro is located. Three of Africa's Great Lakes are partly within Tanzania. To the north and west lie Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, and Lake Tanganyika, the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish. To the southwest lies Lake Nyasa. Central Tanzania is a large plateau, with plains and arable land. The eastern shore is hot and humid, with the Zanzibar Archipelago just offshore.

Kalambo Falls in the southwestern region of Rukwa is the second highest uninterrupted waterfall in Africa, and is located near the southeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika on the border with Zambia. The Menai Bay Conservation Area is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area.

Climate

Tanzania map of Köppen climate classification
Further information: Geography of Tanzania § Climate

Climate varies greatly within Tanzania. In the highlands, temperatures range between 10 and 20 °C (50 and 68 °F) during cold and hot seasons respectively. The rest of the country has temperatures rarely falling lower than 20 °C (68 °F). The hottest period extends between November and February (25–31 °C or 77.0–87.8 °F) while the coldest period occurs between May and August (15–20 °C or 59–68 °F). Annual temperature is 20 °C (68.0 °F). The climate is cool in high mountainous regions.

Tanzania has two major rainfall periods: one is uni-modal (October–April) and the other is bi-modal (October–December and March–May). The former is experienced in southern, central, and western parts of the country, and the latter is found in the north from Lake Victoria extending east to the coast. The bi-modal rainfall is caused by the seasonal migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

Climate change in Tanzania is resulting in rising temperatures with a higher likelihood of intense rainfall events (resulting in flooding) and of dry spells (resulting in droughts). Climate change is already impacting the sectors in Tanzania of agriculture, water resources, health and energy. Sea level rise and changes in the quality of water are expected to impact fisheries and aquaculture.

Tanzania produced a National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) in 2007 as mandated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In 2012, Tanzania produced a National Climate Change Strategy in response to the growing concern of the negative impacts of climate change and climate variability on the country's social, economic and physical environment.

Wildlife and conservation

Main article: Wildlife of Tanzania See also: List of protected areas of Tanzania
The Masai giraffe is Tanzania's national animal.

Tanzania contains around 20% of the species of Africa's enormous warm-blooded animal populace, found over its 21 National parks, reserves, 1 conservation area, and 3 marine parks. Spread over a zone of in excess of 42,000 square kilometres (16,000 sq. mi) and shaping around 38% of the nation's area. Tanzania has 21 national parks, plus a variety of game and forest reserves, including the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, however the local human population still has an impact on the environment. In western Tanzania, Gombe Stream National Park is the site of Jane Goodall's ongoing study of chimpanzee behaviour, which started in 1960.

Tanzania is highly biodiverse and contains a wide variety of animal habitats. On Tanzania's Serengeti plain, white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi), other bovids and zebra participate in a large-scale annual migration. Tanzania is home to about 130 amphibian and over 275 reptile species, many of them strictly endemic and included in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red Lists of countries. Tanzania has the largest lion population in the world.

Tanzania had a 2019 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 7.13/10, ranking it 54th globally out of 172 countries.

Politics

Main article: Politics of Tanzania

Government

Main article: Constitution of Tanzania

Tanzania is a one-party dominant state with the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party in power. From its formation until 1992, it was the only legally permitted party in the country. This changed on 1 July 1992, when the constitution was amended. It has held power since independence in 1961, and is the longest-serving ruling party in Africa.

John Magufuli won the October 2015 presidential election and secured a two-thirds majority in parliament. The main opposition party in Tanzania since multiparty politics in 1992 is called Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) (Swahili for "Party for Democracy and Progress"). The leader of Chadema party is Freeman Mbowe.

In Zanzibar, the country's semi-autonomous state, The Alliance for Change and Transparency-Wazalendo (ACT-Wazalendo) is considered the main opposition political party. The constitution of Zanzibar requires the party that comes in second in the polls to join a coalition with the winning party. ACT-Wazalendo joined a coalition government with the islands' ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi in December 2020 after Zanzibar disputed elections.

In November 2020, Magufuli once again was declared the winner for his second term as president. Election fraud was suspected. The national electoral commission announced that Magufuli received 84%, or about 12.5 million votes and the top opposition candidate, Tundu Lissu received 13%, about 1.9 million votes.

In March 2021, it was announced that Magufuli had died whilst serving in office, meaning that his vice president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, became the country's president.

Executive

President Samia Suluhu HassanPrime Minister Kassim Majaliwa

The president of Tanzania and the members of the National Assembly are elected concurrently by direct popular vote for five-year terms. The vice-president is elected for a five-year term at the same time as the president and on the same ticket. Neither the president nor the vice-president may be a member of the National Assembly. The president appoints a prime minister from among the members of the National Assembly, subject to confirmation by the assembly, to serve as the government's leader in the assembly. The president selects her cabinet from assembly members. Law enforcement in Tanzania is under the executive branch of government and is administered by the Tanzania Police Force.

Legislature

All legislative power relating to mainland Tanzania and union matters is vested in the National Assembly, which is unicameral and has 393 members. These include members elected to represent constituencies, the attorney general, five members elected by the Zanzibar house of representatives from among its own members, the special women's seats that constitute at least 30% of the seats that any party has in the assembly, the speaker of the assembly (if not otherwise a member of the assembly), and the persons (not more than ten) appointed by the president. The Tanzania Electoral Commission demarcates the mainland into constituencies in the number determined by the commission with the consent of the president.

Judiciary

See also: Chief Justice of Tanzania

Tanzania's legal system is based on English common law.

High Court Building in Kigoma

Tanzania has a four-level judiciary. The lowest-level courts on the Tanzanian mainland are the Primary Courts. In Zanzibar, the lowest-level courts are the Kadhi's Courts for Islamic family matters and the Primary Courts for all other cases. On the mainland, appeal is to either the District Courts or the Resident Magistrates Courts. In Zanzibar, appeal is to the Kadhi's Appeal Courts for Islamic family matters and the Magistrates Courts for all other cases. From there, appeal is to the High Court of Mainland Tanzania or Zanzibar. No appeal regarding Islamic family matters can be made from the High Court of Zanzibar. Otherwise, the final appeal is to the Court of Appeal of Tanzania.

The High Court of mainland Tanzania has three divisions – commercial, labour, and land – and 15 geographic zones. The High Court of Zanzibar has an industrial division, which hears only labour disputes.

Mainland and union judges are appointed by the Chief Justice of Tanzania, except for those of the Court of Appeal and the High Court, who are appointed by the president of Tanzania.

Tanzania is a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Law enforcement

Main article: Law enforcement in Tanzania

Public safety and border control is the responsibility of the Tanzania Police Force. Oversight of the force is shared by the Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Police and the Inspector-General of Police.

Zanzibar

The semi-autonomous Zanzibar Archipelago

The legislative authority in Zanzibar over all non-union matters is vested in the House of Representatives (per the Tanzania constitution) or the Legislative Council (per the Zanzibar constitution).

The Legislative Council has two parts: the president of Zanzibar and the House of Representatives. The president is Zanzibar's head of government and the chairman of the Revolutionary Council, in which the executive authority of Zanzibar is invested. Zanzibar has two vice-presidents, with the first being from the main opposition party in the house. The second is from the party in power and is the leader of government business in the House.

The president and the members of the House of Representatives have five-year terms and can be elected for a second term.

The president selects ministers from members of the House of Representatives, with the ministers allocated according to the number of House seats won by political parties. The Revolutionary Council consists of the president, both vice-presidents, all ministers, the attorney general of Zanzibar, and other house members deemed fit by the president.

The House of Representatives is composed of elected members, ten members appointed by the president, all the regional commissioners of Zanzibar, the attorney general, and appointed female members whose number must be equal to 30 per cent of the elected members. The House determines the number of its elected members with the Zanzibar Electoral Commission determining the boundaries of each election constituency. In 2013, the House had 81 members: fifty elected members, five regional commissioners, the attorney general, ten members appointed by the president, and fifteen appointed female members.

Leadership in World governance initiatives

Tanzania has been one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution. As a result, in 1968, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. Julius Nyerere, then president of Tanzania signed the agreement to convene a World Constituent Assembly.

Administrative subdivisions

Main articles: Regions of Tanzania, Districts of Tanzania, and Subdivisions of Tanzania
Regions of Tanzania

In 1972, local government on the mainland was abolished and replaced with direct rule from the central government. Local government, however, was reintroduced in the beginning of the 1980s, when the rural councils and rural authorities were re-established. Local government elections took place in 1983, and functioning councils started in 1984. In 1999, a Local Government Reform Programme was enacted by the National Assembly, setting "a comprehensive and ambitious agenda ... four areas: political decentralization, financial decentralization, administrative decentralization and changed central-local relations, with the mainland government having overriding powers within the framework of the Constitution."

Tanzania is divided into thirty-one regions (mikoa), twenty-six on the mainland and five in Zanzibar (three on Unguja, two on Pemba). The thirty-one regions are divided into 195 districts (wilaya), also known as local government authorities. Of those districts, 45 are urban units, which are further classified as three city councils (Arusha, Mbeya, and Mwanza), twenty municipal councils, and twenty-two town councils.

The urban units have an autonomous city, municipal, or town council and are subdivided into wards and sub-wards (mitaa). The non-urban units have an autonomous district council but are subdivided into village councils or township authorities (first level) and then into hamlets (vitongoji).

The city of Dar es Salaam is unique because it has a city council whose area of jurisdiction overlaps three municipal councils. The mayor of the city council is elected by that council. The twenty-member city council is composed of eleven persons elected by the municipal councils, seven members of the National Assembly, and "Nominated members of parliament under 'Special Seats' for women". Each municipal council also has a mayor. "The City Council performs a coordinating role and attends to issues cutting across the three municipalities", including security and emergency services. The city of Mwanza has a city council whose areal jurisdiction overlaps two municipal councils.

Foreign policies and partnerships

Main article: Foreign relations of Tanzania
Tanzanian Embassy in West End, Washington, D.C.

Foreign policies of Tanzania are in process of review to replace the current New Foreign Policy of 2001, which was the first official foreign policy of Tanzania. Before 2001, Tanzanian foreign policy was dictated by the various presidential declarations of Mwalimu Nyerere specifically Circular No. 2 of 1964, Arusha Declaration, and Policy of Foreign Affairs of 1967. These declarations had focused foreign policy primarily on independence and sovereignty, human rights, and African unity. The current New Foreign Policy of 2001 was established to better address the end of colonialism and the cold war, globalization, market economics and liberalization, and the multi-party state of Tanzania. Its primary focus is economic diplomacy and development.

New Foreign Policy of 2001, which is still used today, has a foundation of 7 principles; sovereignty, liberalism, good neighborliness, African unity, non-alignment, economic diplomacy, and global cooperation for economic development and peace. The primary objectives are outlined as the protection and promotion of cultural and economic interests, establishment of relations with other nations driven by economic interest, economic self-sufficiency, internal and global peace, and regional political and economic integration.

A review of current foreign policy is being undertaken by the sixth phase government to replace the current New Foreign Policy of 2001. Foreign Affairs Minister Liberata Mulamula has stated the new policies will maintain the priority of and non-alignment of the 2001 policy while making additional top priorities the climate change and refocusing economic diplomacy with a greater focus on value-added exports and the digital economy.

International partnerships

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha
East African Legislative Assembly in Arusha

Tanzania is a member of many international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU), East African Community (EAC), and Southern African Development Community (SADC) among many others. Additionally, due to the strength of Tanzania's non-alignment, unity and internal peace since independence, Tanzania frequently acts as a mediator and location of treaties and agreements between other nations, such as the Arusha Agreement with Europe, as well as the Arusha Accords with Rwanda (1993) and Burundi (2000).

The United Nations has a large current and historical presence in Tanzania and acts as an important partner in itself, and associated IGOs and NGOs, in many functions in the country, as well as functions based in Tanzania and implemented throughout the Great Lakes and Africa as a whole. Of the many functions, the UN and Tanzania partner or the UN works with outside countries, most notably human rights and justice courts and reporting, education, development, climate change, health, and wildlife conservation. While the UN primary offices are in Oysterbay, Dar es Salaam, many other offices, courts, and NGOs are based in Arusha, TZ. The most well-known example is the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda genocide.

The African Union consists of 55 nations in Africa. Tanzania is a founding member of the AU in 2001, and its predecessor the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) by the predecessors of Tanzania, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, in 1963. The Judicial Branch of the AU and its courts are located in Tanzania. Originally the Court of Justice of the African Union, it has been combined with the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights to form the African Court of Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR) which is located in Arusha. Tanzania ratified and joined the AU-brokered African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on 17 January 2022, the largest free trade area in the world.

The East African Community consisting of Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is headquartered in Arusha. Tanzania, along with Kenya and Uganda, is a founding member of the EAC in 2000. Following the German defeat in World War I Tanzania joined the London-based East African Currency Board (EACB) that was a customs union and provider of currency for Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya from 1919 to 1948, the East Africa High Commission (EAHC) from 1948 to 1961, and East African Common Services Organization (EACSO) from 1961 to 1966. In 1966 all three countries formed the first East African Community which lasted until 1976, then the East African Co-operation from 1993 to 2000, before becoming reestablished as the East African Community in 2000.

The EAC has had a customs union since 2005, with a free trade zone between member states and unified tariffs and trade agreements with non-member states and multinational organizations. The customs union also established a unified organization and sets of rules, such as rules of origin, for all trade within, into, and passing through member states. In 2010 a common market was established within the EAC for the free movement of labor, goods, people, capital, and services, as well as established rights of establishment. The East African Monetary Union (EAMU) is proposed to be established in 2024 that will create a single common currency by the East African Central Bank. From the original reestablishment of the EAC, as laid out in Article 5(2) of the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community, the final goal for the EAC is always the political federation of all member states. In 2017 all member states adopted the confederation of EAC as a transitional precursor to the final federation.

The Southern African Development Community consists of 16 nations, including all countries of southern Africa plus Tanzania and the DRC from the Great Lakes. Tanzania is a founding member of SADC in 1994, as well as its predecessor the Frontline States (FLS), from 1960 to 1994. While FLS aimed to end apartheid, its successor SADC has the aims of furthering peace and security along with the economic and political integration of member states.

Military

FIB Tanzanian special forces during training
Main article: Tanzania People's Defence Force

The Tanzania People's Defence Force (TPDF) (Kiswahili: Jeshi la Wananchi wa Tanzania (JWTZ)) is the armed forces of Tanzania, operating as a people's force under civilian control. It is composed of five branches or commands: Land Force (army), Air Force, Naval Command, National Service, Headquarter (MMJ). Tanzanian citizens are able to volunteer for military service from 15 years of age, and 18 years of age for compulsory National military service upon graduation from advanced secondary school. Conscript service obligation was 2 years as of 2004.

Tanzania is the 65th most peaceful country in the world, according to the 2024 Global Peace Index.

Human rights

Main articles: Human rights in Tanzania, Persecution of people with albinism, and LGBT rights in Tanzania

Throughout Tanzania, same sex acts are illegal and carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. According to a 2007 Pew Research Centre survey, 95 percent of Tanzanians believed that homosexuality should not be accepted by society.

People with albinism living in Tanzania are often attacked, killed or mutilated because of superstitions related to the black-magical practice known as muti that say body parts of albinos have magical properties. Tanzania has the highest occurrence of this human rights violation among 27 African countries where muti is known to be practised.

In December 2019, Amnesty International reported that the Tanzanian government annulled the right of NGOs as well as individuals to directly file any case against it at the Arusha-based African Court for Human and Peoples' Rights.

Economy and infrastructure

Main articles: Economy of Tanzania and Poverty in Tanzania
Historical development of real GDP per capita in Tanzania, since 1950

As of 2021, according to the IMF, Tanzania's gross domestic product (GDP) was an estimated $71 billion (nominal), or $218.5 billion on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis. GDP per capita (PPP) was $3,574.

From 2009 through to 2013, Tanzania's per capita GDP (based on constant local currency) grew an average of 3.5% per year, higher than any other member of the East African Community (EAC) and exceeded by only nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Tanzania's largest trading partners in 2017 for its US$5.3 billion in exports were India, Vietnam, South Africa, Switzerland, and China. Its imports totalled US$8.17 billion, with India, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, China, and the United Arab Emirates being the biggest partners.

Tanzania weathered the Great Recession, which began in late 2008 or early 2009, relatively well. Strong gold prices, bolstering the country's mining industry, and Tanzania's poor integration into global markets helped to insulate the country from the downturn. Since the recession ended, the Tanzanian economy has expanded rapidly thanks to strong tourism, telecommunications, and banking sectors.

According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), however, recent growth in the national economy has benefited only the "very few", leaving out the majority of the population. As of the latest survey in 2015/2016, 57.1 percent of the population is considered to be affected by multidimensional poverty. Tanzania's 2013 Global Hunger Index was worse than any other country in the EAC except Burundi. The proportion of persons who were undernourished in 2010–12 was also worse than any other EAC country except Burundi.

In 2020, the World Bank declared the rise of the Tanzanian economy from low income to lower middle income country, as its GNI per capita increased from US$1,020 in 2018 to US$1,080 in 2019.

Tanzania's economy grew 4.6 percent in 2022, and 5.2 percent in 2023.

Hunger and poverty

The Global Hunger Index previously ranked the situation as "alarming" with a score of 42 in the year 2000; since then the GHI has declined to 23.2. Children in rural areas suffer substantially higher rates of malnutrition and chronic hunger, although urban-rural disparities have narrowed as regards both stunting and underweight. Low rural sector productivity arises mainly from inadequate infrastructure investment; limited access to farm inputs, extension services and credit; limited technology as well as trade and marketing support; and heavy dependence on rain-fed agriculture and natural resources.

Approximately 68 percent of Tanzania's 61.1 million citizens live below the poverty line of $1.25 a day. 32 percent of the population are malnourished. The most prominent challenges Tanzania faces in poverty reduction are unsustainable harvesting of its natural resources, unchecked cultivation, climate change and water source encroachment, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

There are very few resources for Tanzanians in terms of credit services, infrastructure or availability to improved agricultural technologies, which further exacerbates hunger and poverty in the country according to the UNDP. Tanzania ranks 159 out of 187 countries in poverty according to the United Nation's Human Development Index (2014).

The 2019 World Bank report showed that in the last 10 years, poverty has reduced by 8 percentage points, from 34.4% in 2007 to 26.4% in 2018. A further report showed a reduction to 25.7% in 2020.

Agriculture

Main article: Agriculture in Tanzania
Tea fields in Tukuyu

The Tanzanian economy is heavily based on agriculture, which in 2013 accounted for 24.5 per cent of gross domestic product, provides 85% of exports, and accounted for half of the employed workforce. The agricultural sector grew 4.3 percent in 2012, less than half of the Millennium Development Goal target of 10.8%. 16.4 per cent of the land is arable, with 2.4 percent of the land planted with permanent crops. Tanzania's economy relies on farming, but climate change has impacted their farming.

Maize was the largest food crop on the Tanzania mainland in 2013 (5.17 million tonnes), followed by cassava (1.94 million tonnes), sweet potatoes (1.88 million tonnes), beans (1.64 million tonnes), bananas (1.31 million tonnes), rice (1.31 million tonnes), and millet (1.04 million tonnes). Sugar was the largest cash crop on the mainland in 2013 (296,679 tonnes), followed by cotton (241,198 tonnes), cashew nuts (126,000 tonnes), tobacco (86,877 tonnes), coffee (48,000 tonnes), sisal (37,368 tonnes), and tea (32,422 tonnes). Beef was the largest meat product on the mainland in 2013 (299,581 tonnes), followed by lamb/mutton (115,652 tonnes), chicken (87,408 tonnes), and pork (50,814 tonnes).

According to the 2002 National Irrigation Master Plan, 29.4 million hectares in Tanzania are suitable for irrigation farming; however, only 310,745 hectares were actually being irrigated in June 2011.

Industry, energy and construction

Main articles: Energy in Tanzania, Water supply and sanitation in Tanzania, and Natural resource and waste management in Tanzania See also: List of companies of Tanzania Williamson diamond mineSongo Songo Gas Plant

Industry and construction is a major and growing component of the Tanzanian economy, contributing 22.2 per cent of GDP in 2013. This component includes mining and quarrying, manufacturing, electricity and natural gas, water supply, and construction. Mining contributed 3.3 per cent of GDP in 2013. The vast majority of the country's mineral export revenue comes from gold, accounting for 89 per cent of the value of those exports in 2013. Tanzania's gold production is 46 metric tonnes in 2015. It also exports sizeable quantities of gemstones, including diamonds and tanzanite. All of Tanzania's coal production, which totalled 106,000 short tons in 2012, is used domestically.

Further information on the mineral exploration company: Rift Valley Resources

Only 15 percent of Tanzanians had access to electric power in 2011, rising to 35.2 per cent in 2018. The government-owned Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) dominates the electric supply industry in Tanzania. The country generated 6.013 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity in 2013, a 4.2 per cent increase over the 5.771 billion kWh generated in 2012. Generation increased by 63 percent between 2005 and 2012; Almost 18 percent of the electricity generated in 2012 was lost because of theft and transmission and distribution problems. The electrical supply varies, particularly when droughts disrupt hydropower electric generation; rolling blackouts are implemented as necessary. The unreliability of the electrical supply has hindered the development of Tanzanian industry. In 2013, 49.7 percent of Tanzania's electricity generation came from natural gas, 28.9 percent from hydroelectric sources, 20.4 percent from thermal sources, and 1.0 percent from outside the country. The government has built a 532 kilometres (331 mi) gas pipeline from Mnazi Bay to Dar es Salaam. This pipeline was expected to allow the country to double its electricity generation capacity to 3,000 megawatts by 2016. The government's goal is to increase capacity to at least 10,000 megawatts by 2025.

Nyerere Bridge in Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam

According to PFC Energy, 25 to 30 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas resources have been discovered in Tanzania since 2010, bringing the total reserves to over 43 trillion cubic feet by the end of 2013. The value of natural gas actually produced in 2013 was US$52.2 million, a 42.7 percent increase over 2012.

Commercial production of gas from the Songo Songo Island field in the Indian Ocean commenced in 2004, thirty years after it was discovered there. Over 35 billion cubic feet of gas was produced from this field in 2013, with proven, probable, and possible reserves totalling 1.1 trillion cubic feet. The gas is transported by pipeline to Dar es Salaam. As of 27 August 2014, TANESCO owed the operator of this field, Orca Exploration Group Inc.

A newer natural gas field in Mnazi Bay in 2013 produced about one-seventh of the amount produced near Songo Songo Island but has proven, probable, and possible reserves of 2.2 trillion cubic feet. Virtually all of that gas is being used for electricity generation in Mtwara.

The Ruvuma and Kiliwani areas of Tanzania have been explored mostly by the discovery company that holds a 75 percent interest, Aminex, and has shown to hold in excess of 3.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. A pipeline connecting offshore natural gas fields to Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam was completed at the end of April 2015.

Tourism

Main article: Tourism in Tanzania
The snowcapped Uhuru Peak

Travel and tourism contributed 17.5 per cent of Tanzania's gross domestic product in 2016 and employed 11.0 per cent of the country's labour force (1,189,300 jobs) in 2013. Overall receipts rose from US$1.74 billion in 2004 to US$4.48 billion in 2013, and receipts from international tourists rose from US$1.255 billion in 2010 to US$2 billion in 2016. In 2016, 1,284,279 tourists arrived at Tanzania's borders compared to 590,000 in 2005. The vast majority of tourists visit Zanzibar or a "northern circuit" of Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, and Mount Kilimanjaro. In 2013, the most visited national park was Serengeti (452,485 tourists), followed by Manyara (187,773) and Tarangire (165,949).

Banking

The Bank of Tanzania is the central bank of Tanzania and is primarily responsible for maintaining price stability, with a subsidiary responsibility for issuing the banknotes and coins of the Tanzanian shilling. At the end of 2013, the total assets of the Tanzanian banking industry were TSh 19.5 trillion, a 15 per cent increase over 2012.

Transport

Main article: Transport in Tanzania
One of the main trunk roads
Zanzibar harbour

Most transport in Tanzania is by road, with road transport constituting over 75 per cent of the country's freight traffic and 80 percent of its passenger traffic. The Cairo-Cape Town Highway passes through Tanzania. The 181,191 kilometres (112,587 mi) road system is in generally poor condition. Tanzania has two railway companies: TAZARA, which provides service between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri Mposhi (in a copper-mining district in Zambia), and Tanzania Railways Limited, which connects Dar es Salaam with central and northern Tanzania. Rail travel in Tanzania often entails slow journeys with frequent cancellations or delays, and the railways have a deficient safety record.

In Dar es Salaam, there is a huge project of rapid buses, Dar Rapid Transit (DART) which connects suburbs of Dar es Salaam city. The development of the DART system consists of six phases and is funded by the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the Government of Tanzania. The first phase began in April 2012, and it was completed in December 2015 and launched operations in May 2016.

Tanzania has four international airports, along with over 120 small airports or landing strips. Airport infrastructure tends to be in poor condition. Airlines in Tanzania include Air Tanzania, Precision Air, Fastjet, Coastal Aviation, and ZanAir.

Communications

Main article: Telecommunications in Tanzania

In 2013, the communications sector was the fastest growing in Tanzania, expanding 22.8 per cent; however, the sector accounted for only 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product that year.

As of 2011, Tanzania had 56 mobile telephone subscribers per 100 inhabitants, a rate slightly above the sub-Saharan average. Very few Tanzanians have fixed-line telephones. Approximately 12 per cent of Tanzanians used the internet as of 2011, though this number is growing rapidly. The country has a fibre-optic cable network that replaced unreliable satellite service, but internet bandwidth remains very low.

Economic statistics controversy

Two articles in the Economist in July 2020 raised doubts about official claims of economic growth: "If Tanzania's economy grew by almost 7% in the fiscal year to the end of June 2019, why did tax revenue fall by 1%? And why has bank lending to companies slumped? Private data are bad, too. In 2019 sales at the biggest brewer fell by 5%. Sales of cement by the two biggest producers were almost flat. None of these things is likely if growth is storming ahead. The discrepancies are so large that it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the government is lying."

Tim Staermose, a proponent of African investment, took issue with these data: "Some of these statements by The Economist, based on the evidence I have gathered from primary sources – namely, the statutory financial reports that listed companies in Tanzania are legally obligated to release – are simply not true. Bank lending to companies as far as I can see has not, 'slumped.' The two biggest banks in Tanzania, which between them account for approximately 40% of the banking sector, both reported strong loan growth in 2019. ... As for cement sales being 'almost flat,' again, this is total nonsense. ... In 2019 Twiga sold 6% more cement by volume than it did in 2018. In the first six months of 2020, Twiga already sold 8% more cement than it had done by the same stage in 2019. Again, these numbers are very consistent with an economy that's reported to be growing at around 7% per annum. ... the 5% fall in beer sales in 2019 ... the published 2019 annual report by Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL) will tell you there were one-off circumstances that largely drove the decline ... resulted in sales falling. But TBL's profits actually rose in 2019."

Food and nutrition

Main article: Food security in Tanzania
A Tanzanian woman cooks Pilau rice dish wearing traditional Kanga.

Poor nutrition remains a persistent problem within Tanzania and varies hugely throughout the country's regions. USAID reports that 16% of children are underweight and 34% experience stunted growth as a result of malnutrition. 10 regions house 58% of children suffering from stunted growth while 50% of acutely malnourished children can be found in 5 regions. Over a 5-year period, the Mara district of Tanzania saw a 15% reduction in stunting in children under 5 years old, falling from 46% to 31% in 2005 and 2010 respectively. Dodoma, on the other hand, saw a 7% increase in the prevalence of stunting in this age group, rising from 50% in 2005 to 57% in 2010. Overall availability of food does not necessarily contribute to overall stunting figures. Iringa, Mbeya and Rukwa regions, where overall availability of food is considered acceptable, still experience stunting incidents in excess of 50%. In some areas where food shortages are common, such as in the Tabora and Singida regions, stunting instances remain comparatively less than those seen in Iringa, Mbeya and Rukwa. The Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre attributes these discrepancies to variance in maternal malnutrition, poor infant feeding practices, hygiene practices and poor healthcare services. Periods of drought can have significant impacts on the production of crops in Tanzania. Drought in East Africa has resulted in massive increases in the prices of food staples such as maize and sorghum, crops crucial to the nutrition of the majority of Tanzania's population. From 2015 to 2017 the price of maize when bought wholesale more than tripled, from TSh 400/= per kilogramme to 1,253/= per kilogramme.

Farmers using a rice harvester in Igunga District, Tanzania

Tanzania remains heavily agricultural, with 80% of the total population engaging in subsistence farming. Rural areas are subjected to increased food shortages in comparison to urbanised areas, with a survey carried out within the country in 2017 finding 84% of people in rural areas suffering food shortages over a 3-month period compared to 64% of residents in cities. This disparity between rural and city nutrition can be attributed to various factors; increased nutritional needs due to manual labour, more limited access to food as a result of poor infrastructure, high-susceptibility to the damaging effects of nature and the "Agricultural Productivity Gap". The Agricultural Productivity Gap postulates that "value added per worker" is often much lower within the agricultural sector than that found within non-agricultural sectors. Furthermore, allocation of labour within the agricultural sector is largely allocated ineffectively.

Programmes targeting hunger

USAID programmes focusing on nutrition operate within the Morogoro, Dodoma, Iringa, Mbeya, Manyara, Songwe and Zanzibar regions of Tanzania. These "Feed the Future" programmes heavily invest in nutrition, infrastructure, policy, capacity of institutions and agriculture which is identified by the organisation as a key area of economic growth in the country. A Tanzanian government led initiative "Kilimo Kwanza" or "Agriculture First" aims to encourage investment into agriculture within the private sector and hopes to improve agricultural processes and development within the country by seeking the knowledge of young people and the innovation that they can potentially provide. During the 1990s, around 25% of Tanzania's population were provided access to iodised oil aimed to target iodine deficiency within expecting mothers, as result of studies showing the negative effects of in-utero iodine deficiency on cognitive development in children. Research showed that children of mothers with access to the supplement achieved on average greater than a third of a year more education than those who did not.

Example of a World Food Programme parcel

Programmes led by the World Food Programme operate within Tanzania. The Supplementary Feeding Programme (SFP) aims to target acute malnutrition by supplying blended food fortified with vitamins to pregnant women and mothers to children under 5 on a monthly basis. Pregnant women and mothers to children under 2 have access to the Mother and Child Health and Nutrition Programme's "Super Cereal" which is supplied with the intent of reducing stunting in children. World Food Programme supplementation remains the main food source for Tanzania's refugees. Super Cereal, Vegetable Oil, Pulses and Salt are supplied as part of the Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation to meet the average person's minimum daily caloric requirement of 2,100 kcal. UNICEF state that continued investment in nutrition within Tanzania is of the utmost importance: Estimates predict that Tanzania stands to lose $20 billion by 2025 if nutrition within the country remains at its current level, however improvements in nutrition could produce a gain of around $4.7 billion

Save the Children, with the help of UNICEF and Irish Aid funding created the Partnership for Nutrition in Tanzania (PANITA), in 2011. PANITA aims to use civil society organisations to target nutrition within the country. Alongside this, various sectors associated with nutrition are targeted such as agriculture, water, sanitation, education, economic development and social progress. PANITA is responsible for ensuring significant attention is given to nutrition in development plans and budgets created on national and regional levels within Tanzania. Since its conception, PANITA has grown from 94 to 306 participating civil society organisations nationwide. Agriculture within Tanzania is targeted by the Irish Aid led initiative Harnessing Agriculture for Nutrition Outcomes (HANO), which aims to merge nutrition initiatives with agriculture in the Lindi District of the country. The project aims to reduce stunting by 10% in children aged 0 to 23 months.

Science and technology

Researchers (HC) in Southern Africa per million inhabitants, 2013 or closest year
Main article: Science and technology in Tanzania

Tanzania's first "National Science and Technology Policy" was adopted in 1996. The objective of the government's "Vision 2025" (1998) document was to "transform the economy into a strong, resilient and competitive one, buttressed by science and technology".

Under the umbrella of the One UN Initiative, UNESCO and Tanzanian government departments and agencies formulated a series of proposals in 2008 for revising the "National Science and Technology Policy". The total reform budget of US$10 million was financed from the One UN fund and other sources. UNESCO provided support for mainstreaming science, technology, and innovation into the new "National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy" for the mainland and Zanzibar namely, Mkukuta II and Mkuza II, including in the field of tourism.

Tanzania's revised science policy was published in 2010. Entitled "National Research and Development Policy", it recognises the need to improve the process of prioritisation of research capacities, develop international co-operation in strategic areas of research and development, and improve planning for human resources. It also makes provisions for the establishment of a National Research Fund. This policy was, in turn, reviewed in 2012 and 2013.

Scientific publications per million inhabitants in SADC countries in 2014. Source: UNESCO Science Report (2015), data from Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded.

In 2010, Tanzania devoted 0.38 per cent of GDP to research and development. The global average in 2013 was 1.7 per cent of GDP. Tanzania had 69 researchers (in head counts) per million population in 2010. In 2014, Tanzania counted 15 publications per million inhabitants in internationally catalogued journals, according to Thomson Reuters' Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded). The average for sub-Saharan Africa was 20 publications per million inhabitants and the global average 176 publications per million inhabitants. Tanzania was ranked 120th in the Global Innovation Index in 2024, down from 97th in 2019.

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of Tanzania
Population in Tanzania
Year Million
1950 7.9
2000 35.1
2021 63.6

According to the 2012 census, the total population of Tanzania was 44,928,923. The under-15 age group represented 44.1% of the population.

The population distribution in Tanzania is significantly uneven. Most people live on the northern border or the coast, with much of the remainder of the country being sparsely populated. Density varies from 12 per square kilometre (31/sq mi) in the Katavi Region to 3,133 per square kilometre (8,110/sq mi) in the Dar es Salaam Region.

Approximately 70% of the population is rural, although this percentage has been declining since at least 1967. Dar es Salaam (population 4,364,541) is the largest city and commercial capital. The capital of the country and economic centre of Tanzania, Dodoma (population 410,956) is located in central Tanzania, and hosts the National Assembly.

At the time of the foundation of the United Republic of Tanzania in 1964, the child mortality rate was 335 deaths per 1,000 live births. Since independence, the rate of child deaths has declined to 62 per 1000 births.

   Largest cities or towns in Tanzania
2012 Census General Report, March 2013 Combined Final for Printing
Rank Name Region Pop.
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
Mwanza
Mwanza
1 Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam 4,364,541 Arusha
Arusha
Dodoma
Dodoma
2 Mwanza Mwanza 706,543
3 Arusha Arusha 416,442
4 Dodoma Dodoma 410,956
5 Mbeya Mbeya 385,279
6 Morogoro Morogoro 315,866
7 Tanga Tanga 273,332
8 Kahama Shinyanga 242,208
9 Tabora Tabora 226,999
10 Zanzibar City Zanzibar West 223,033
The Hadza live as hunter-gatherers.

The population consists of about 125 ethnic groups. The Sukuma, Nyamwezi, Chagga, and Haya peoples each have a population exceeding 1 million. Most Tanzanians are of native African descent. Tanzanian citizens of Indian descent constitute a significant demographic minority which is particularly prominent in business and entrepreneurship. There are also Tanzanians of Chinese descent. Many Tanzanians identify as Shirazis. Some Tanzanians are of Arab descent. The majority of Tanzanians, including the Sukuma and the Nyamwezi, are Bantu.

Thousands of Arabs and Indians were massacred during the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964. As of 1994, the Asian community numbered 50,000 on the mainland and 4,000 on Zanzibar. An estimated 70,000 Arabs and 10,000 Europeans lived in Tanzania. As of 2015, the Indian community numbered 60,000.

Some albinos in Tanzania have been the victims of violence in recent years. Attacks are often to hack off the limbs of albinos in the perverse superstitious belief that possessing the bones of albinos will bring wealth. The country has banned witch doctors to try to prevent the practice, but it has continued and albinos remain targets.

According to 2010 Tanzanian government statistics, the total fertility rate in Tanzania was 5.4 children born per woman, with 3.7 in urban mainland areas, 6.1 in rural mainland areas, and 5.1 in Zanzibar. For all women aged 45–49, 37.3 per cent had given birth to eight or more children, and for currently married women in that age group, 45.0 per cent had given birth to that many children.

Religion

Main articles: Religion in Tanzania, Christianity in Tanzania, and Islam in Zanzibar
Religion in Tanzania (2020)
Islam 35.2%
Christianity 61.4%
Indigenous beliefs 1.8%
Other 1.4%
Source: CIA World Factbook.

Official statistics on religion are unavailable because religious surveys were eliminated from government census reports after 1967. Tanzania's religious field is dominated by Christianity, Islam and African traditional religions connected to ethnic customs. The word for religion in Swahili, dini, generally apply to the world religions of Christianity and Islam meaning that followers of traditional African religions are considered to be of "no religion". Religious belonging is often ambiguous, with some people adhering to multiple religious identities at the same time (for instance being Christian but also following African traditional rituals) something which suggests that religious boundaries are flexible and contextual.

St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral, Zanzibar.

According to a 2014 estimate by the CIA World Factbook, 61.4% of the population was Christian, 35.2% was Muslim, 1.8% practised traditional African religions, 1.4% were unaffiliated with any religion, and 0.2% followed other religions. However, according to the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), 55.3% of the population is Christian, 31.5% is Muslim, 11.3% practices traditional faiths, while 1.9% of the population is non-religious or adheres to other faiths as of 2020. The ARDA estimates that most Tanzanian Muslims are Sunni, with a small Shia minority, as of 2020. Nearly the entire population of Zanzibar is Muslim. Of Muslims, 16% are Ahmadiyya, 20% are non-denominational Muslims, 40% are Sunni, 20% are Shia, and 4% are Sufi. Most Shias in Tanzania are from Asian/Indian descent. Notable Shias of Indian/Khoja heritage in Tanzania are Mohammed Dewji or Amir H. Jamal.

Within the Christian community the Catholic Church is the largest group (51% all Christians). Among the Protestants, the large number of Lutherans and Moravians points to the German missionary past of the country, while the number of Anglicans point to the British missionary history of Tanganyika. A growing number have adopted Pentecostalism, and Adventists likewise have an increasing presence because of external missionary activities from Scandinavia and the United States, especially during the first part of the 20th century. All of them have had some influence in varying degrees from the Walokole movement (East African Revival), which has also been fertile ground for the spread of charismatic and Pentecostal groups. The country also has around 20,000 Jehovah's Witnesses.

There are also active communities of other religious groups, primarily on the mainland, such as Buddhists, Hindus, and Bahá'ís.

Languages

Main article: Languages of Tanzania
A carved door with Arabic calligraphy in Zanzibar

More than 100 languages are spoken in Tanzania, making it the most linguistically diverse country in East Africa. Among the languages spoken are four of Africa's language families: Bantu, Cushitic, Nilotic, and Khoisan. There are no de jure official languages in Tanzania.

Swahili is used in parliamentary debate, in the lower courts, and as a medium of instruction in primary school. English is used in foreign trade, in diplomacy, in higher courts, and as a medium of instruction in secondary and higher education. The Tanzanian government, however, has plans to discontinue English as a language of instruction. In connection with his Ujamaa social policies, President Nyerere encouraged the use of Swahili to help unify the country's many ethnic groups. Approximately 10 per cent of Tanzanians speak Swahili as a first language, and up to 90 per cent speak it as a second language. Many educated Tanzanians are trilingual, also speaking English. The widespread use and promotion of Swahili is contributing to the decline of smaller languages in the country. Young children increasingly speak Swahili as a first language, particularly in urban areas. Ethnic community languages (ECL) other than Kiswahili are not allowed as a language of instruction. Nor are they taught as a subject, though they might be used unofficially in some cases in initial education. Television and radio programmes in an ECL are prohibited, and it is nearly impossible to get permission to publish a newspaper in an ECL. There is no department of local or regional African Languages and Literatures at the University of Dar es Salaam.

The Sandawe people speak a language that may be related to the Khoe languages of Botswana and Namibia, while the language of the Hadzabe people, although it has similar click consonants, is arguably a language isolate. The language of the Iraqw people is Cushitic.

Education and Libraries

Main article: Education in Tanzania
Nkrumah Hall at the University of Dar es Salaam

In 2015, the literacy rate in Tanzania was 77.9% for people aged 15 and over (83.2% males, 73.1% females). Education is compulsory until children reach age 15. In 2020, 97% completed primary (98.4% females and 95.5% males), 28.3% completed secondary (30% females and 27% males), and 8% completed tertiary education (7% females and 8.5% males).

The Tanzania Library Services Board operates twenty-one regional, eighteen district, and one divisional library.

Healthcare

Main article: Healthcare in Tanzania
Development of life expectancy

As of 2012, life expectancy at birth was 61 years. The under-five mortality rate in 2012 was 54 per 1,000 live births. The maternal mortality rate in 2013 was estimated at 410 per 100,000 live births. Prematurity and malaria were tied in 2010 as the leading cause of death in children under five years old. The other leading causes of death for these children were, in decreasing order, malaria, diarrhoea, HIV, and measles.

Malaria in Tanzania causes death and disease and has a "huge economic impact". There were approximately 11.5 million cases of clinical malaria in 2008. In 2007–08, malaria prevalence among children aged 6 months to five years was highest in the Kagera Region (41.1 per cent) on the western shore of Lake Victoria and lowest in the Arusha Region (0.1 per cent).

According to the 2010 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2010, 15 per cent of Tanzanian women had undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) and 72 per cent of Tanzanian men had been circumcised. FGM is most common in the Manyara, Dodoma, Arusha, and Singida regions and nonexistent in Zanzibar. The prevalence of male circumcision was above 90 per cent in the eastern (Dar es Salaam, Pwani, and Morogoro regions), northern (Kilimanjaro, Tanga, Arusha, and Manyara regions), and central areas (Dodoma and Singida regions) and below 50 per cent only in the southern highlands zone (Mbeya, Iringa, and Rukwa regions).

2012 data showed that 53 per cent of the population used improved drinking water sources (defined as a source that "by nature of its construction and design, is likely to protect the source from outside contamination, in particular from faecal matter") and 12 per cent used improved sanitation facilities (defined as facilities that "likely hygienically separates human excreta from human contact" but not including facilities shared with other households or open to public use).

Women

Tanzanian women harvesting tea leaves
Main article: Women in Tanzania

Women and men have equality before the law. The government signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1985. Nearly 3 out of ten women reported having experienced sexual violence before the age of 18. The prevalence of female genital mutilation has decreased. School girls are reinstated back to school after delivery. The Police Force administration strives to separate the Gender Desks from normal police operations to enhance confidentiality of the processing of women victims of abuse. Most of the abuses and violence against women and children occurs at the family level. The Constitution of Tanzania requires that women constitute at least 30% of all elected members of National Assembly. The gender differences in education and training have implications later in life of these women and girls. Unemployment is higher for females than for males. The right of a female employee to maternity leave is guaranteed in labour law.

Culture

Main article: Culture of Tanzania

Media

Main article: Mass media in Tanzania

Music

Main article: Music of Tanzania
Tanzanian Ngoma group

As in other countries, the music in Tanzania is constantly undergoing changes, and varies by location, people, settings and occasion. The five music genres in Tanzania, as defined by BASATA are, ngoma, dansi, kwaya, and taarab, with bongo flava being added in 2001. Singeli has since the mid-2000s been an unofficial music of uswahilini, unplanned communities in Dar es Salaam, and is the newest mainstream genre since 2020.

Ngoma (Bantu, meaning dance, drum and event) is a traditional dance music that has been the most widespread music in Tanzania. Dansi is urban jazz or band music. Taarab is sung Kiswahili poetry accompanied by a band, typically string, in which audience is often, but not always, encouraged to dance and clap. Kwaya was choir music originally limited to church during colonization, but is now a secular part of educational, social, and political events.

Bongo flava is Tanzanian pop music originating in the early 2000s from muziki wa kizazi kipya, meaning "Music of the new generation", which originated in the late 1980s. Kizazi kipya's dominant influences were reggae, RnB, and hip hop, where as the later bongo flava's dominant influences are taarab and dansi. Three recent influence on bongo flava are Afropop in the 2010s, as well as amapiano from South Africa and singeli from Tanzania, both since 2020. Singeli is a ngoma music that originated in Manzese, an uswahilini in north-west Dar es Salaam. A MC performs over fast tempo taarab music, often at between 200 and 300 beats per minute (BPM) while females dance. Styles between MC gender typically differ significantly. Male MCs usually perform in fast-paced rap, while female MCs usually perform kwaya.

From independence until 1993, all recording and distribution of music was strictly managed by BASATA, primarily through Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam (RTD). Only the four Tanzanian genres were permitted to be recorded or broadcast, which at the time was ngoma, taarab, kwaya and dansi. The Broadcasting Services Act of 1993 allowed private broadcast networks and recording studios. In the few years prior to the 1993 Act hip hop had been getting somewhat established in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Mwanza. It was transitioning from English performances of hip hop originating in uzunguni, rich areas like Oysterbay and Masaki with international schools, to Kiswahili performances of kizazi kipya, originating in uswahilini. Following the opening of the radio waves, bongo flava spreading throughout the country, and the rest of the Great Lakes.

National anthem

Mungu ibariki Afrika National Anthem of Tanzania National Anthem of Tanzania performed by United States Navy Band
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The Tanzanian national anthem is "Mungu Ibariki Africa" (God Bless Africa). It has kiswahili lyrics adapted for "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" composed by South African composer Enoch Sontonga in 1897. "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" became a pan-African song adapted into the current national anthems for Tanzania, Zambia, and following the end of apartheid South Africa. It was previously used in the national anthems for Zimbabwe and Namibia, but has since been replaced by original new anthems. Another patriotic song is Tanzania, Tanzania.

Literature

Main article: Tanzanian literature

Tanzania's literary culture is primarily oral. Major oral literary forms include folktales, poems, riddles, proverbs, and songs. The greatest part of Tanzania's recorded oral literature is in Swahili, even though each of the country's languages has its own oral tradition. The country's oral literature has been declining because of the breakdown of the multigenerational social structure, making transmission of oral literature more difficult, and because increasing modernisation has been accompanied by the devaluation of oral literature.

Books in Tanzania are often expensive and hard to come by. Most Tanzanian literature is in Swahili or English. Major figures in Tanzanian written literature include Shaaban Robert (considered the father of Swahili literature), Aniceti Kitereza, Muhammed Saley Farsy, Faraji Katalambulla, Adam Shafi Adam, Muhammed Said Abdalla, Peter K. Palangyo, Said Ahmed Mohammed Khamis, Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed, Euphrase Kezilahabi, Gabriel Ruhumbika, Ebrahim Hussein, May Materru Balisidya, Fadhy Mtanga, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Penina O. Mlama.

A Tingatinga painting

Painting and sculpture

Two Tanzanian art styles have achieved international recognition. The Tingatinga school of painting, founded by Edward Said Tingatinga, consists of brightly coloured enamel paintings on canvas, generally depicting people, animals, or daily life. After Tingatinga's death in 1972, other artists adopted and developed his style, with the genre now being the most important tourist-oriented style in East Africa.

Historically, there were limited opportunities for formal European art training in Tanzania and many aspiring Tanzanian artists left the country to pursue their vocation.

Sports

National Stadium in Dar es Salaam
Main article: Sport in Tanzania

Football is very popular throughout the country. The most popular professional football clubs in Dar es Salaam are the Young Africans F.C. and Simba S.C. The Tanzania Football Federation is the governing body for football in the country.

Other popular sports include basketball, netball, boxing, volleyball, athletics, and rugby. The National Sports Council also known as Baraza la Michezo la Taifa is the governing body for sports in the country under the Ministry of Information, Youth, Sports and Culture.

Cinema

Main article: Cinema of Tanzania

Tanzania has a popular film industry known as "Bongo Movie". It also hosts an international film festival, the Zanzibar International Film Festival.

See also

Notes

  1. Swahili and English serve as de facto official languages.
  2. +007 from Kenya and Uganda
  3. /ˌtænzəˈniːə/ TAN-zə-NEE-ə, rarely /tænˈzeɪniə/ tan-ZAY-nee-ə, Swahili: [tɑⁿzɑˈni.ɑ].
  4. Swahili: Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania.
  5. In 2020 access to electricity reached a high of 84.6 percent, the highest in East Africa.

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