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{{short description|Country in East Africa}}
{{Distinguish|Tasmania}}
{{about|the country in East Africa|other uses|Tanzania (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = United Republic of Tanzania
| common_name            = Tanzania
| native_name            = {{native name|sw|Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania}}
| image_flag             = Flag of Tanzania.svg
| image_coat             = Coat of arms of Tanzania.svg
| national_motto         = "Uhuru na Umoja"
| englishmotto           = "Freedom and Unity"
| national_anthem        = "[[Mungu ibariki Afrika]]"<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|[[File:National Anthem of Tanzania by US Navy Band.ogg]]}}
| image_map              = {{Switcher|[[File: Tanzania (orthographic projection).svg|frameless]]|Show globe|[[File:Location Tanzania AU Africa.svg|upright=1.15|frameless]]|Show map of Africa|default=1}}
| capital                = [[Dodoma]]
| coordinates            = {{Coord|6|10|S|35|44|E|type:city|display=inline}}
| largest_city           = [[Dar es Salaam]]<br />{{Coord|06|48|S|39|16|E|region:TZ-02_type:city(6,400,000)|display=inline}}
| official_languages     = {{hlist|[[Swahili language|Swahili]]|[[English language|English]]{{efn|[[Swahili language|Swahili]] and [[English language|English]] 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         = [[National language]]
| languages              = [[Swahili language|Swahili]]<ref name="tzgov">{{cite web|title=Tanzania Profile|url=https://tanzania.go.tz/home/pages/68|website=Tanzania Gov|publisher=Tanzanian Government|access-date=23 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802124344/https://tanzania.go.tz/home/pages/68|archive-date=2 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| languages2_type        = Other languages
| languages2             = [[Languages of Tanzania|Over 100 languages]], including (1m+):
{{hlist |style=line-break:anywhere|[[Shambala language|Shambala]]|[[Sukuma language|Sukuma]]|[[Nyamwezi language|Nyamwezi]]|[[Chaga languages|Chagga]]|[[Ha language|Ha]]|[[Bena language|Bena]]|[[Gogo language|Gogo]]|[[Haya language|Haya]]|[[Dholuo]]|[[Iraqw language|Iraqw]]|[[Makonde language|Makonde]]|[[Nyaturu language|Nyaturu]]|[[Maasai language|Maasai]]|[[Jita language|Jita]]|[[Pare language|Pare]]}}
| 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% [[Christianity in Tanzania|Christianity]]
  |34.1% [[Islam in Tanzania|Islam]]
  |1.5% [[Irreligion|no religion]]
  |1.2% [[Traditional African religions|traditional faiths]]
  |0.1% others
 }}
| demonym                = [[Demographics of Tanzania|Tanzanian]]
| government_type        = Unitary dominant-party [[Presidential system|presidential republic]]
| leader_title1          = [[President of Tanzania|President]]
| leader_name1           = [[Samia Suluhu Hassan]]
| leader_title2          = [[Vice-President of Tanzania|Vice-President]]
| leader_name2           = [[Emmanuel Nchimbi]]
| leader_title3          = [[Prime Minister of Tanzania|Prime Minister]]
| leader_name3           = [[Mwigulu Nchemba]]
| leader_title4          = [[Speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania|Speaker]]
| leader_name4           = [[Mussa Zungu]]
| leader_title5          = [[Chief Justice of Tanzania|Chief Justice]]
| leader_name5           = [[George Mcheche Masaju]]
| legislature            = [[National Assembly (Tanzania)|National Assembly]]
| sovereignty_type       = Independence {{nobold|from the [[United Kingdom]]}}
| established_event1     = [[Tanganyika (1961–1964)|Tanganyika]]
| established_date1      = 9 December 1961
| established_event2     = {{nowrap|[[People's Republic of Zanzibar|Zanzibar]]}}
| 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_rank              = 30th
| area_sq_mi             = 365,756<ref name="BFF"/> <!--Do not remove per [[WP:MOSNUM]]-->
| percent_water          = 6.4<ref name="BFF"/>
| population_estimate    = 67,462,121<ref name=CIA2024>{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Tanzania|access-date=3 June 2024|year=2024}}</ref>
| 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_census_year = 2022
| population_estimate_rank = 23rd
| population_density_km2 = 65.2
| population_density_sq_mi = 168.8 <!--Do not remove per [[WP:MOSNUM]]-->
| population_density_rank = 147th
| GDP_PPP                = {{increase}} $293.59 billion<ref name=weodb>{{cite web |title=World Economic Outlook Database, April 2025 |url=https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2025/april |language=en}}</ref>
| GDP_PPP_rank           = 69th
| GDP_PPP_year           = 2025
| GDP_PPP_per_capita     = {{increase}} $4,370<ref name=weodb/>
| GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 158th
| GDP_nominal            = {{increase}} $88.980 billion<ref name=weodb/>
| GDP_nominal_rank       = 80th
| GDP_nominal_year       = 2025
| GDP_nominal_per_capita = {{increase}} $1,280<ref name=weodb/>
| GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = 162nd
| Gini                   = 40.5
| Gini_year              = 2017
| 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>
| Gini_rank              = 
| HDI                    = 0.555<!--number only, between 0 and 1-->
| HDI_year               = 2023<!-- Please use the year to which the data refers, not the publication year-->
| HDI_change             = increase <!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| HDI_ref                = <ref name="HDI">[https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks Human Development Insights] Human Development Reports</ref>
| HDI_rank               = 165th
| currency               = [[Tanzanian shilling]]
| currency_code          = TZS
| time_zone              = [[East Africa Time]]
| utc_offset             = +3
| utc_offset_DST         = 
| time_zone_DST          = 
| drives_on              = left
| calling_code           = [[+255]]{{efn|+007 from Kenya and Uganda}}
| cctld                  = [[.tz]]
}}
'''Tanzania''',{{efn|{{IPAc-en|ˌ|t|æ|n|z|ə|ˈ|n|iː|ə|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Tanzania.wav}} {{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 [[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 a 2024 estimate, Tanzania has a population of around 67.5 million,<ref name=CIA2024 /> 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 [[South Cushitic languages|Southern Cushitic]] speakers similar to modern day [[Iraqw people]], who moved south from present-day [[Ethiopia]];<ref name="Genetics"/> Eastern Cushitic people who moved into Tanzania from north of [[Lake Turkana]] about 2,000 and 4,000 years ago;<ref name="Genetics"/> and the [[Southern Nilotic languages|Southern Nilotes]], including the [[Datooga people|Datoog]], 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 [[Bantu languages|Mashariki Bantu]] from West Africa in the [[Lake Victoria]] and [[Lake Tanganyika]] 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 [[German East Africa]].  This was followed by British rule after [[World War I]] when it was governed as [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika]], with the [[Zanzibar Archipelago]] remaining a separate colonial jurisdiction. Following their gaining 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=7 July 2025 |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/tanzania/}}</ref>

Tanganyika joined the British [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] 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> Today, the country is a [[Presidential system|presidential]] constitutional republic with the [[federal capital]] located in [[Government City (Dodoma)]];<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, [[Dar es Salaam]], 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> For decades, Tanzania has been ruled by the [[Chama Cha Mapinduzi]] (CCM) as a ''[[de facto]]'' [[one-party state]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Collord |first1=Michaela |title=Tanzania's 2020 Election: Return of the One-Party State |url=https://www.ifri.org/sites/default/files/migrated_files/documents/atoms/files/collord_tanzania_2020_election_2021.pdf |website=ifri.org |publisher=[[Institut français des relations internationales]] |access-date=5 November 2025 |format=PDF |date=February 2021}}</ref><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>

Tanzania's population comprises about 120 [[Ethnic groups|ethnic]],<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> [[Linguistic groups|linguistic]], and religious groups. [[Christianity]] is the largest [[religion in Tanzania]], with substantial [[Muslim]] and [[Animism|Animist]] minorities.<ref name="Pew Africa">[http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/tanzania#/?affiliations_religion_id=0&affiliations_year=2010&region_name=All%20Countries&restrictions_year=2016 Religion in Tanzania] {{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 }}, [[Pew Research Center]]</ref> Over 100 [[Languages of Tanzania|languages are spoken in Tanzania]], 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/> although the national language is [[Swahili language|Swahili]].<ref name="tzgov"/> 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> [[Arabic]] is widely spoken in [[Zanzibar]], reflecting its history as a trading center dominated by Arabs.

Tanzania is mountainous and densely forested in the north-east, where [[Mount Kilimanjaro]], the highest [[African mountains|mountain in Africa]] and the [[List of highest mountains on Earth|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.<ref name="Kalambo Falls">[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/310022/Kalambo-Falls "Kalambo Falls"]. ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.</ref> Tanzania is one of the most visited tourist destinations for [[safari]]s.<ref>{{cite web | last1=Scholtz | first1=Marco | editor-first1=Ozayr | editor-last1=Patel | 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 | doi=10.64628/AAJ.epmfwva6h }}</ref>
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==Etymology==
The name Tanzania was created as a [[clipped compound]] of the names of the two states that unified to create the country: [[Tanganyika (1961–1964)|Tanganyika]] and [[People's Republic of Zanzibar|Zanzibar]].<ref>{{OEtymD|tanzania}}</ref> When Zanzibar and Tanganyika were uniting, national newspaper ''The Standard'' ran a contest for a new name, which was won by Mohammed Iqbal Dar. Iqbal claimed he formulated the name by taking "Tan" and "zan" from the uniting states, "i" from his own name, and adding "a" as a reference to [[Ahmadiyya]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mazimu |first=Yusuph |date=4 March 2025 |title=Mohammed Iqbal Dar: Mjue mbunifu wa jina 'Tanzania' aliyeaga dunia |url=https://www.bbc.com/swahili/articles/crrdq0v420ko |access-date=24 March 2025 |work=BBC News Swahili}}</ref>

The name Tanganyika is derived from the [[Swahili language|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]].<ref>[http://home.frognet.net/~jaknouse/gaz-af.html John Knouse: A Political World Gazetteer: Africa] {{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]] derives from ''[[Zanj]]'', the name of a local people, and Arabic ''barr'' "coast" or "shore."<ref>{{OEtymD|zanzibar}}.</ref> Zanj comes from  Al-Zanjia, the Arabic name for the East African coast. This word is related to [[Azania]], the Greek name (possibly derived from a [[Sabaic]] name) for the same coast, mentioned in ''[[Periplus of the Erythraean Sea]]'', a book written in the first-century CE. Azania is described as ruled by the Mapharitis - an ethnic group residing (at the time) in what is today southwest Yemen.

==History==
{{main|History of Tanzania|History of Zanzibar}}

[[File:Olduvai stone chopping tool (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|right|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. 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 [[Hadza language|linguistically isolated]] [[Hadza people|Hadza]] and [[Sandawe people|Sandawe]] 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}}

The first wave of migration was by [[South Cushitic languages|Southern Cushitic]] speakers who moved south from [[Ethiopia]] and [[Somalia]] into Tanzania. They are ancestral to the [[Iraqw language|Iraqw]], [[Gorowa language|Gorowa]], and [[Burunge language|Burunge]].<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 [[Lake Turkana]].<ref name="Genetics"/>{{rp|pages 17–18}}

Archaeological evidence supports the conclusion that [[Southern Nilotic languages|Southern Nilotes]], including the [[Datooga people|Datoog]], 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}}

These movements took place at approximately the same time as the settlement of the iron-making [[Bantu languages|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 [[yam (vegetable)|yams]]. 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"/>

[[Eastern Nilotic languages|Eastern Nilotic]] peoples, including the [[Maasai people|Maasai]], 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 [[Pare people]] 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 [[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 {{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
| pages=1085–89 |last2=Avery |first2=D.H. |doi=10.1126/science.201.4361.1085| bibcode=1978Sci...201.1085S |s2cid=37926350}}</ref>

Travellers and merchants from the [[Persian Gulf]] 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> [[Islam]] was practiced by some on the [[Swahili Coast]] as early as the eighth or ninth century AD.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/7chapter5.shtml "The Story of Africa"]. ''BBC World Service''.</ref>

===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.<ref>Horton, Mark and Middleton, Tom. "The Swahili: The Social Landscape of a Mercantile Community." (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010), 46.</ref>

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 Sultanate|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.<ref>Campbell, Gwyn. "Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900." Cambridge University Press. 2019</ref>

===Colonial===
{{Main|German East Africa|Tanganyika Territory}}

[[File:City of Kilwa, 1572.jpg|thumb|A 1572 depiction of the city of [[Kilwa]], a [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]]]]
Claiming the coastal strip, [[Oman]]i 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]].<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 African population of [[Zanzibar]] 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 [[Tippu Tip]]. The [[Nyamwezi people|Nyamwezi]] slave traders operated under the leadership of [[Msiri]] and [[Mirambo]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter3.shtml "The Story of Africa |BBC World Service"]. 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 |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>
[[File:089 Le marché aux esclaves à Zanzibar.jpg|thumb|left|The slave market in [[Zanzibar]], {{circa|1860}}]]
In 1863, the [[Holy Ghost Mission]] established an early reception center and depot at Zanzibar. In 1877, responding to appeals of [[Henry Morton Stanley|Henry Stanley]] following his [[Henry Morton Stanley's first trans-Africa expedition|trans-Africa expedition]], and permission being given to Stanley by [[Muteesa I of Buganda|King Mutessa I of Buganda]], the [[Church Mission Society|Church Missionary Society]] sent missionaries [[Edward John Baxter|Edward Baxter]] 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 |url-access=subscription }}</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=18 December 2022 |website=www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk}}</ref> In 1885, Germany conquered the regions that are now Tanzania (minus Zanzibar) and incorporated them into [[German East Africa]] (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> 
[[File:Wilhelm Kuhnert Schlacht bei Mahenge 2.jpg|thumb|Battle during the [[Maji Maji Rebellion]] against [[German East Africa|German]] colonial rule in 1905]]
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.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Iliffe |first=John |author-link=John Iliffe (historian) |date=1967 |title=The Organization of the Maji Maji Rebellion |journal=The Journal of African History |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=8 |pages=495–512 |doi=10.1017/S0021853700007982 |jstor=179833 |doi-access=free |number=3}}</ref>

The Supreme Council of the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|1919 Paris Peace Conference]] awarded all of GEA to [[Great Britain|Britain]] on 7 May 1919, over the strenuous objections of Belgium.<ref name="Ends" />{{rp|240}} The British [[Secretary of State for the Colonies|colonial secretary]], [[Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner|Alfred Milner]], and Belgium's minister [[plenipotentiary]] 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 [[Ruanda-Urundi|Ruanda and Urundi]] 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 [[Kionga Triangle]] south of the [[Rovuma River]] would be given to [[Portuguese Mozambique]],<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 [[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.<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|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

During [[World War II]], about 100,000 people from Tanganyika joined the [[Allies of World War II|Allied forces]]<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">[http://www.mgtrust.org/afr2.htm "African participants in the Second World War"]. mgtrust.org.</ref> Tanganyikans fought in units of the [[King's African Rifles]] during the [[East African campaign (World War II)|East African Campaign]] in Somalia and [[Ethiopian Empire|Abyssinia]] against the Italians, in Madagascar against the [[Vichy French]] during the [[Battle of Madagascar|Madagascar Campaign]], and in Burma against the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] during the [[Burma Campaign 1944–45|Burma Campaign]].<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 [[Great Depression]].<ref name="Heale"/> Wartime demand, however, caused increased commodity prices and massive inflation within the colony.<ref>[http://www.content.eisa.org.za/old-page/tanzania-british-rule-between-wars-1916-1945 "Tanzania: British rule between the Wars (1916–1945)"]. ''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, [[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.<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>

===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]].<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 6}} Tanganyika also joined the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]] 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 [[Zanzibar Revolution]] overthrew the Arab dynasty in neighbouring [[Zanzibar]], accompanied with the slaughter of thousands of Arab Zanzibaris,<ref name="Zanzibar">{{cite news |title=Unveiling Zanzibar's unhealed wounds |url=https://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 }}</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 Nyerere government and the [[Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar]] 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>

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>[[Pierre Englebert]] 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>

[[File:Arusha Declaration Monument.jpg|thumb|The [[Arusha Declaration Monument]]]]
In 1967, Nyerere's first presidency took a turn to the [[left politics|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 {{convert|1860|km|mi|adj=mid|-long}} [[TAZARA Railway]] 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.

Tanzania enacted the Constitution of the United Republic on 16 March 1977, 
establishing the country's post-union governance framework, defining the three branches of government.

In 1978, the neighbouring [[Uganda]], under the leadership of Idi Amin, [[Uganda–Tanzania War|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.<ref>{{cite thesis |last= Francis|first= Joyce L.|date= 1994|title= War as a social trap: The case of Tanzania|publisher=American University |type= PhD thesis|oclc= 33488070|url= https://auislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/thesesdissertations:2786}}</ref><ref name= atuhaire>{{cite news|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200704110882.html|title=Uganda: Country Pays Tanzania Shs120 Billion Amin War Debt|last=Atuhaire|first=Alex B.|date=11 April 2007|website=allAfrica.com|access-date=8 December 2013}}{{subscription required}}</ref>

Tanzania won its first Olympic medal at the [[1980 Summer Olympics]] in [[Moscow]]. The nation [[Tanzania at the 1980 Summer Olympics#Medalists|received two silver medals]]; both in running events.

Through the 1980s, conservation-oriented national parks such as [[Serengeti National Park|Serengeti]] and [[Kilimanjaro National Park|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.<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>
[[File:The close view of the Kariakoo market in Dar es Salaam.JPG|thumb|The capital city of Dar es Salaam in 2015]]
In September 1990, [[Pope John Paul II]] visited Tanzania during his fourth pastoral journey to Africa. His visit focused on the issues of AIDS and poverty and addressed themes of family, faith and solidarity.

In 1992, the [[Constitution of Tanzania]] was amended to allow multiple political parties.<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/~pcwcr/reports/tanzania1992.html "Tanzania 1992"]. {{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 [[Chama Cha Mapinduzi]] won 186 of the 232 elected seats in the National Assembly, and [[Benjamin Mkapa]] 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 [[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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Presidents Of Tanzania Since Independence|url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/presidents-of-tanzania-since-independence.html|access-date=2 June 2021|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=2 June 2021|website=The East African|date=6 July 2020|language=en}}</ref> Every president has represented the ruling party [[Chama Cha Mapinduzi]] (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=2 June 2021|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 [[2020 Tanzanian general election|election]] 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=2 June 2021|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en}}</ref>

On 17 March 2021, President [[John Magufuli]] 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, [[Samia Suluhu Hassan]], 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> A series of [[2025 Tanzanian election protests|demonstrations]] and civil unrest began in October 2025, coinciding with Tanzania's [[2025 Tanzanian general election|general elections]]. President Suluhu was declared the winner with 98% of the vote.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tanzania president wins 98% in election as opposition says hundreds killed |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251101-tanzania-president-wins-election-landslide-after-deadly-protests |work=France 24 |date=11 November 2025}}</ref>

==Geography==
{{Main|Geography of Tanzania|Zanzibar Archipelago}}

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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 [[Unguja]] (Zanzibar), [[Pemba Island|Pemba]], and [[Mafia Island|Mafia]].<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1245}} The country is the site of Africa's highest and lowest points: [[Mount Kilimanjaro]], at {{convert|5895|m|ft}} above sea level, and the floor of [[Lake Tanganyika]], at {{convert|1471|m|ft}} below sea level, respectively.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1245}}

[[File:Wildebeest Migration in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.jpg|thumb|upright=1.05|Wildebeest migration in the [[Serengeti]]]]
Tanzania is mountainous and densely forested in the northeast, where Mount Kilimanjaro is located. Three of [[African Great Lakes|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.<ref name="Kalambo Falls"/> The [[Menai Bay Conservation Area]] is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area.

===Climate===
[[File:Koppen-Geiger Map TZA present.svg|thumb|upright=1.75|Tanzania map of Köppen climate classification]]
{{Further|Geography of Tanzania#Climate}}
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 periods: one is [[Unimodality|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 [[Lake Victoria]] extending east to the coast.<ref name=rain/> The bi-modal rainfall is caused by the seasonal migration of the [[Intertropical Convergence Zone]].<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>

Tanzania infrequently experiences land-falling tropical cyclones which can have severe impacts, [[2023–24 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season#Tropical Cyclone Hidaya|Cyclone Hidaya]] for instance.<ref name="HidayaNews">{{cite web |title=Tanzania counts losses after Cyclone Hidaya swept coastline |url=https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/tanzania-counts-losses-after-cyclone-hidaya-4618970 |website=The EastAfrican |language=en |date=10 May 2024}}</ref> There are recorded examples of such cyclones back as far as 1872.<ref name="Msemo2022">{{cite journal |last1=Msemo |first1=Hellen E. |last2=Finney |first2=Declan L. |last3=Mbuya |first3=Samwel I. |title=Forgotten accounts of tropical cyclones making landfall in Tanzania |journal=Weather |date=April 2022 |volume=77 |issue=4 |pages=127–131 |doi=10.1002/wea.3921|bibcode=2022Wthr...77..127M |doi-access=free }}</ref>

[[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).<ref>{{cite web|title=Tanzania|url=https://www.climatelinks.org/countries/tanzania|access-date=27 November 2020|website=Climatelinks|language=en|archive-date=14 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220614161023/https://www.climatelinks.org/countries/tanzania|url-status=dead}}</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> [[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.<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 [[National Adaptation Programme of Action|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.<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===
{{Main|Wildlife of Tanzania}}

{{See also|List of protected areas of Tanzania}}
[[File:Mannetjes masaigiraffe in de Serengeti, Tanzania, -12 januari 2013 a.jpg|thumb|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.<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 }}</ref> 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]] was the site of [[Jane Goodall]]'s study of [[Common chimpanzee|chimpanzee]] 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 }}</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 [[Biodiversity|biodiverse]] 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=[https://archive.org/details/biodiversityinsu0000stua/page/204 204]}}</ref> On Tanzania's [[Serengeti]] plain, white-bearded [[wildebeest]] (''Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi''), other [[bovid]]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 [[amphibian]] and over 275 reptile species, many of them strictly [[Endemism|endemic]] and included in the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]]'s Red Lists of countries.<ref>Edoarado Razzetti and Charles Andekia Msuya (2002) [http://www-3.unipv.it/webshi/images/files/tanzie2002.pdf "Introduction"] {{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 [[Forest Landscape Integrity Index]] 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>

==Politics==
{{Main|Politics of Tanzania}}

===Constitution and elections===
{{main|Constitution of Tanzania|Elections in Tanzania}}

Tanzania is a [[one party dominant state|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.<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"/>

[[John Magufuli]] 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 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=29 October 2015|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=2 June 2021}}</ref> The main opposition party in Tanzania since multiparty politics in 1992 is called [[Chadema|Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema)]] ([[Swahili language|Swahili]] for "Party for Democracy and Progress"). The leader of Chadema party is [[Freeman Mbowe]].<ref>{{cite news |date=2 November 2020 |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=2 June 2021}}</ref>

In [[Zanzibar]], the country's semi-autonomous state, [[Alliance for Change and Transparency|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 [[2020 Zanzibari general election|elections]].<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. [[Electoral 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&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, [[Samia Suluhu Hassan]], became the country's president.<ref name=":7" />

Tanzania was [[Democratic backsliding|autocratising]] in year 2024 according to the [[V-Dem Democracy Indices]].<ref name="j496">{{cite web |title=Democracy Report 2025, 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped? |url=https://v-dem.net/documents/54/v-dem_dr_2025_lowres_v1.pdf |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref>

In the 2025 election, [[Samia Suluhu Hassan]] was reelected for another term as president, after she barred the 2 main opposition parties from participating in the election. Protests erupted following the election results, and the protests were handled by the authorities with lethal forces that resulted in hundreds killed and many more maimed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-11-11 |title=Tanzania: Reports of hundreds killed and detained following deadly election violence {{!}} UN News |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/11/1166334 |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=news.un.org |language=en}}</ref>

===Executive===
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The [[president of Tanzania]] and the [[List of Tanzania National Assembly members|members of the National Assembly]] are elected concurrently by direct popular vote for five-year terms.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 42(2)}} The [[Vice President of Tanzania|vice-president]] 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 [[Prime Minister of Tanzania|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.<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 [[Cabinet of Tanzania|cabinet]] from assembly members.<ref name="Constitution"/>{{rp|§ 55}} [[Law enforcement in Tanzania]] 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===
All [[Legislature|legislative]] power relating to mainland Tanzania and union matters is vested in the [[National Assembly of Tanzania|National Assembly]],<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 [[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.<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===
{{See also|Chief Justice of Tanzania}}
Tanzania's legal system is based on English [[common law]].<ref name="TZ court system"/>
[[File:Kigoma High Court, Bangwe Ward, Kigoma.jpg|thumb|High Court Building in [[Kigoma]]]]

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 [[High Court of Tanzania|High Court of Mainland Tanzania or Zanzibar]].<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=[[GlobaLex]] |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>{{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>[http://www.judiciaryzanzibar.go.tz/historical_background.php "Welcome to High Court of Zanzibar"]. ''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 [[Chief Justice of Tanzania]],<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 [[Appellate court|Court of Appeal]] 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 [[Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court]].<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===
[[File:Spice Islands (Zanzibar highlighted) sv.svg|thumb|left|The semi-autonomous [[Zanzibar Archipelago]]]]

The legislative authority in Zanzibar over all non-union matters is vested in the [[House of Representatives (Zanzibar)|House of Representatives]] (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=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 }}</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 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 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">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110904235537/http://zltb.go.tz/docs/Zanzibar-Constitution-1984.pdf The Constitution of Zanzibar]. 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>

===Administrative subdivisions===
{{Main|Regions of Tanzania|Districts of Tanzania|Subdivisions of Tanzania}}

[[File:Tanzania, administrative divisions - de - colored (+details).svg|thumb|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 (Tanzania)|National Assembly]], setting "a comprehensive and ambitious agenda ... [covering] 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>

Tanzania is divided into thirty-one [[Regions of Tanzania|regions]] (''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=[[Daily News (Tanzania)|Daily News]] |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 [[Zanzibar]] (three on [[Unguja]], two on [[Pemba, Tanzania|Pemba]]).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130527015837/http://www.tanzania.go.tz/regionsf.html Regions]. tanzania.go.tz</ref> The thirty-one regions are divided into 195 [[Districts of Tanzania|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.<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 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 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 policies and partnerships===
{{Main|Foreign relations of Tanzania}}

[[File:Embassy of Tanzania, Washington, D.C.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Embassy of Tanzania, Washington, D.C.|Tanzanian Embassy]] in [[West End (Washington, D.C.)|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.<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=1 April 2021 |publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation]] |issue=1 |location=[[Dodoma|Dodoma, Tanzania]] |language=sw |access-date=21 June 2022 |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=[[Dar es Salaam, Tanzania]] |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 [[Julius 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=[[Dodoma|Dodoma, Tanzania]] |language=en, sw}}</ref> the [[Arusha Declaration]],<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=[[Tanganyika African National Union|TANU, Publicity Section]] |edition=1 |location=[[Dar es Salaam, Tanzania]] |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=16 October 1967 |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=[[New York, NY]] |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=22 February 2020 |degree=Public Policy |publisher=[[KDI School of Public Policy and Management]] |url=https://archives.kdischool.ac.kr/handle/11125/34174 |place=[[Sejong City|Sejong City, South Korea]] |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=[[Dodoma|Dodoma, Tanzania]] |language=en, sw}}</ref>

New Foreign Policy of 2001, which is still used today, has a foundation of seven principles; [[sovereignty]], [[liberalism]], [[good neighborliness]], [[Pan-Africanism|African unity]], [[Non-Aligned Movement|non-alignment]], [[economic diplomacy]], and [[International development|global cooperation]] 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" />

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 [[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.<ref name="Citizen_22" />

==== International partnerships ====
[[File:ictr office 3.jpg|thumb|[[International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda]] in [[Arusha]]]]
[[File:East African Legislative Assembly.jpg|thumb|[[East African Legislative Assembly]] in Arusha]]

Tanzania is a member of many international organizations such as the [[United Nations|United Nations (UN)]], [[African Union|African Union (AU)]], [[East African Community|East African Community (EAC)]], and [[Southern African Development Community|Southern African Development Community (SADC)]] 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=[[Brill Publishers]] |isbn=978-90-04-40786-2 |location=[[Leiden|Leiden, Netherlands]], [[Boston]] |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 [[Arusha Agreement]] with Europe, as well as the Arusha Accords with [[Arusha Accords (Rwanda)|Rwanda (1993)]] and [[Arusha Accords (Burundi)|Burundi (2000)]].<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=[[African Sociological Review]] |language=en |location=[[Dakar, Senegal]] |publisher=[[CODESRIA]] |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=[[African Studies Quarterly]] |language=en |location=[[Gainesville, Florida]] |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>

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 [[Oyster Bay, Tanzania|Oysterbay, Dar es Salaam]], many other offices, courts, and NGOs are based in [[Arusha|Arusha, TZ]]. The most well-known example is the [[International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda]] genocide.<ref name="UN_SRES9771995">{{UN document |docid=S-RES-977(1995) |type=Resolution |body=Security Council |year=1995 |resolution_number=977 |access-date=23 July 2008|date=22 February 1995}}</ref>

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 |archive-date=1 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901043534/https://au.int/en/member_states/countryprofiles2 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Tanzania is a founding member of the AU in 2001, and its predecessor the [[Organisation of African Unity|Organisation of African Unity (OAU)]] by the predecessors of Tanzania, [[Tanganyika (1961–1964)|Tanganyika]] and [[Sultanate of Zanzibar|Zanzibar]], 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=[[African Union]] |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 [[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|African Court of Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR)]] which is located in Arusha.<ref name="AU_tzAgreement" /> Tanzania ratified and joined the AU-brokered [[African Continental Free Trade Area|African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)]] 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=11 March 2022 |publisher=Overseas Development Institute, [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] |location=[[London, UK]] |publication-date=11 March 2022 |language=en |last3=Willem te Velde |first3=Dirk |access-date=22 June 2022 |type=Briefing, policy papers}}</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=[[Brill Publishers|Brill Nijhoff]] |isbn=978-90-04-32207-3 |editor-last=Ugirashebuja |editor-first=Emmanuel |location=[[Leiden|Leiden, Netherlands]], [[Boston]] |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 [[World War I]] Tanzania joined the London-based [[East African Currency Board|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|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.<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=16 June 2022 |access-date=21 June 2022 |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 |archive-date=27 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627105632/https://mediacentre.go.ug/media/address-rt-hon-rebecca-kadaga-1st-deputy-prime-ministerminister-makerere-university |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Samia Suluhu Hassan, Joe Biden, Jill Biden.jpg|thumb|Tanzanian President [[Samia Suluhu Hassan]] with US President [[Joe Biden]] in Washington, D.C., December 2022]]
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.<ref name="Ugirashebuja_17" /> 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.<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=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-870481-2 |editor-last=Adam |editor-first=Christopher |location=[[Oxford, UK]]; [[New York, NY]] |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 [[confederation]] of EAC as a transitional precursor to the final federation.<ref name="Ugirashebuja_17" /><ref name="Kadaga_22" />

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=9 October 2017 |publisher=[[Springer Publishing|Springer Nature]] |isbn=978-3-319-45330-9 |location=[[Cham, Switzerland]] |language=en |access-date=22 June 2022}}</ref> Tanzania is a founding member of SADC in 1994, as well as its predecessor the [[Frontline States|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.<ref name="Muntschick_17" />

===Military===
[[File:FIB-training-22 (9311333487).jpg|thumb|FIB Tanzanian special forces during training]]
{{Main|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).<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=10 February 2022}}</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}} [https://tanzanialaws.com/n/242-national-service-act National service act of Tanzania]

===Human rights===
{{Main|Human rights in Tanzania|Persecution of people with albinism|LGBT rights in Tanzania}}

[[File:Tundu Lissu.jpg|thumb|Tanzania's main opposition leader [[Tundu Lissu]] was arrested and charged with treason in April 2025]]
Throughout Tanzania, [[LGBT rights by country or territory|same sex acts]] are illegal and carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, though the law is rarely enforced, and gay people do meet up.<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=[[International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association]] |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 }}</ref><ref name="GT">{{cite news | url=http://www.gaytimes.co.uk/gt/listings.asp?action=ShowCountry&CID=932 | title=Lesbian and Gay Tanzania | work=gaytimes | access-date=12 February 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929205430/http://www.gaytimes.co.uk/gt/listings.asp?action=ShowCountry&CID=932 | archive-date=29 September 2006 | url-status=dead }}</ref> According to a 2007 [[Pew Research Centre]] 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 [[Albinism in humans|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.<ref>"[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31849531 Tanzania albino murders: 'More than 200 witchdoctors' arrested]". BBC News. 12 March 2015.</ref> Tanzania has the highest occurrence of this human rights violation among 27 African countries where [[muti]] is known to be practised.<ref>Charlotte Baker (22 September 2017) [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/witchcraft-albino-trade-body-part-human-rights-un-sub-saharan-african-a7958946.html "The trade in body parts of people with albinism is driven by myths and international inaction"]. ''The Independent''</ref>

In December 2019, [[Amnesty International]] reported that the Tanzanian government annulled the right of [[Non-governmental organization|NGOs]] (voluntary citizens groups) 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==
{{Main|Economy of Tanzania|Poverty in Tanzania}}

[[File:GDP per capita development in Tanzania.svg|thumb|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.<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>

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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG |title=GDP per capita growth (annual %) |publisher=[[World Bank]] |access-date=9 August 2024}}</ref>

Tanzania's largest trading partners in 2017 for its US$5.3&nbsp;billion in exports were [[India]], [[Vietnam]], [[South Africa]], [[Switzerland]], and [[China]].<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 [[Great Recession]], which began in late 2008 or early 2009, relatively well. Strong gold prices, bolstering the country's [[Mining industry of Tanzania|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}}

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.<ref>[http://www.tz.undp.org/content/tanzania/en/home/countryinfo "About Tanzania |UNDP in Tanzania"] {{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 [[Multidimensional Poverty Index|multidimensional poverty]].<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 [[Global Hunger Index]] was worse than any other country in the EAC except Burundi.<ref name="GHI">[https://web.archive.org/web/20141106133439/http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ghi13.pdf "2013 Global Hunger Index"]. 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}}

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.<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>

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>

===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 [[Natural resources use in Tanzania|its natural resources]], 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 [[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.<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=12 November 2021}}</ref>

===Agriculture===
{{main|Agriculture in Tanzania}}

[[File:Tea fields, Tukuyu, Tanzania.jpg|thumb|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,<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 [[Millennium Development Goal]] 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 [[Arable land|arable]],<ref>[http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.ARBL.ZS "Arable land (% of land area)"]. World Bank.</ref> with 2.4 percent of the land planted with [[permanent crop]]s.<ref>[http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.CROP.ZS "Permanent cropland (% of land area)"]. 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 production in Tanzania|Maize]] 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 [[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).<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&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 }}</ref>

===Industry, energy and construction===
{{Main|Energy in Tanzania|Water supply and sanitation in Tanzania|Natural resource and waste management in Tanzania}}

{{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 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=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129233804/https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gold-production?tab=table |archive-date=29 November 2023 |access-date=17 December 2024 |website=Our World in Data |url-status=live }}</ref> It also exports sizeable quantities of gemstones, including [[diamonds]] and [[tanzanite]].<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"/>
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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">[http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS "Access to electricity (% of population)"]. 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|Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited]] (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 [[kilowatt hours]] (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>[https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser?country=TANZANIA&fuel=Energy%20supply&indicator=ElecGenByFuel "Tanzania: Electricity and Heat for 2005"]. 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">[https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser?country=TANZANIA&fuel=Energy%20supply&indicator=ElecGenByFuel "Tanzania: Electricity and Heat for 2012"]</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 [[Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park|Mnazi Bay]] to Dar es Salaam.<ref>ashery mkama. [http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/biz/36257-gas-connection-to-dar-houses-faces-hurdles "DailyNews Online Edition"] {{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>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141024091801/http://m.allafrica.com/stories/201409170608.html/ "Tanzania: Govt Signs Gas Supply Deal to Double Power Generation"]. 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>

[[File:Nyerere Bridge - Kigamboni .jpg|thumb|[[Nyerere Bridge]] in Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam]]

According to [[PFC Energy]], 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 }}</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}}

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 }}</ref><ref name="EWURA-Ng">[http://www.ewura.go.tz/newsite/index.php/2012-03-09-08-22-52/natural-gas "Natural Gas"] {{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>[http://www.orcaexploration.com/pdfs/2014_Orca_Q2.pdf "2014 Q2 Report for the Quarter Ended June 30 2014 and 2013"] {{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>

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 [[Mtwara]].<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===
{{Main|Tourism in Tanzania}}

[[File:Uhuru Peak Mt. Kilimanjaro 1.JPG|thumb|The snowcapped [[Uhuru Peak]]]]

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">[http://knoema.com/WTTC2013/world-travel-and-tourism-council-data-2013 "World Travel and Tourism Council Data, 2013"]. ''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 }}</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 [[Zanzibar]] or a "northern circuit" of [[Serengeti National Park]], the [[Ngorongoro Conservation Area]], [[Tarangire National Park]], [[Lake Manyara National Park]], 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}}

===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]].<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 [[Tanzanian shilling|TSh&nbsp;]]19.5&nbsp;trillion, a 15 per cent increase over 2012.<ref>[https://www.bot-tz.org/BankingSupervision/Reports/DBS%2520ANNUAL%2520REPORT%25202013.pdf Annual Report 2013] {{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>

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

[[File:Trunk road Tanzania.jpg|thumb|One of the main trunk roads]]
[[File:Zanzibar Harbour.jpg|thumb|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.<ref name="frame"/>{{rp|page 1252}} The [[Cairo-Cape Town Highway]] 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: [[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.<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, [[Dar Rapid Transit Agency|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.<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 [[Air Tanzania]], [[Precision Air]], [[Fastjet]], [[Coastal Aviation]], and [[ZanAir]].<ref name="frame" />{{rp|page 1253}}

===Communications===
{{Main|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.<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=[[The Economist]]|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=[[The Economist]]|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. ... [On] 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 ... [which] 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=[[Global Value Hunter]]|date=31 July 2020}}</ref>

== Food and nutrition ==
{{main|Food security in Tanzania}}

[[File:Pilua for many.jpg|thumb|left|A Tanzanian woman cooks Pilau rice dish wearing traditional [[Kanga (African garment)|Kanga]].]]
Poor nutrition remains a persistent problem within Tanzania and varies hugely throughout the country's regions. [[United States Agency for International Development|USAID]] 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]]|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 [[Mara Region|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.<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=[[World Health Organization]]}}</ref> Overall availability of food does not necessarily contribute to overall stunting figures. [[Iringa Region|Iringa]], [[Mbeya Region|Mbeya]] and [[Rukwa Region|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 Region|Tabora]] and [[Singida Region|Singida]] 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 [[Commercial sorghum|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 [[Tanzanian shilling|TSh]]&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>
[[File:Farmers harvesting rice.jpg|thumb|Farmers using a rice harvester in Igunga District, Tanzania]]
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 [[Morogoro]], [[Dodoma]], [[Iringa]], [[Mbeya]], [[Manyara Region|Manyara]], [[Songwe Region|Songwe]] and [[Zanzibar]] regions of Tanzania. These "[[Feed the Future Initiative|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.<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" />
[[File:Food Items in World Food Programme Food Parcels.jpg|thumb|left|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.<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" /> [[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<ref name=":3" />

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.<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==
[[File:Researchers (HC) in Southern Africa per million inhabitants, 2013 or closest year.svg|thumb|Researchers (HC) in Southern Africa per million inhabitants, 2013 or closest year]]

{{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}}

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 }}</ref>

[[File:Seychelles and South Africa have the most publications per million inhabitants.svg|thumb|Scientific&nbsp;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 121st in the [[Global Innovation Index]] in 2025, down from 97th in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=GII Innovation Ecosystems & Data Explorer 2025 |url=https://www.wipo.int/gii-ranking/en/tanzania |access-date=2025-10-16 |website=WIPO}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dutta |first1=Soumitra |url=https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/global-innovation-index-2025/en/index.html |title=Global Innovation Index 2025: Innovation at a Crossroads |last2=Lanvin |first2=Bruno |publisher=[[World Intellectual Property Organization]] |year=2025 |isbn=978-92-805-3797-0 |page=19 |language=en |doi=10.34667/tind.58864 |access-date=2025-10-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Global Innovation Index 2019|url=https://www.wipo.int/global_innovation_index/en/2019/index.html|access-date=2 September 2021|website=www.wipo.int|language=en}}</ref>

==Demographics==
{{Main|Demographics of Tanzania}}

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According to a 2024 estimate, Tanzania has a population of around 67.5 million;<ref name=CIA2024 /> 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 }}</ref>

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 [[Katavi Region]] to {{convert|3133|/km2}} in the [[Dar es Salaam Region]].<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) [http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/News/Report-reveals-rapid-rural--urban-migration-/-/1840392/2006950/-/m6w9qv/-/index.html "Report reveals rapid rural -urban migration"] {{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>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131015224549/http://www.nbs.go.tz/sensa/PDF/Census%20General%20Report%20-%2029%20March%202013_Combined_Final%20for%20Printing.pdf 2012 Census General Report]. nbs.go.tz. March 2013</ref> is the largest city and commercial capital. The capital of the country and economic centre of Tanzania, [[Dodoma]] (population 410,956)<ref name=census2012/> is located in central Tanzania, and hosts the [[National Assembly (Tanzania)|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 1,000 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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[[File:Hadzabe Hunters.jpg|thumb|The [[Hadza people|Hadza]] live as [[hunter-gatherers]].]]

The population consists of [[List of ethnic groups in Tanzania|about 125 ethnic groups]].<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 [[Sukuma people|Sukuma]], [[Nyamwezi people|Nyamwezi]], [[Chaga people|Chagga]], and [[Haya people|Haya]] 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 [[Ethnic groups of Africa|African]] descent. Tanzanian citizens of [[Indians in Tanzania|Indian]] descent constitute a significant demographic minority which is particularly prominent in business and entrepreneurship. There are also Tanzanians of [[Chinese people in Tanzania|Chinese]] 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 [[Shirazi (ethnic group)|Shirazis]]. Some Tanzanians are of Arab descent.<ref name=lev/> The majority of Tanzanians, including the Sukuma and the Nyamwezi, are [[Bantu peoples|Bantu]].<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>

Thousands of Arabs and Indians were massacred during the [[Zanzibar Revolution]] 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 }}</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>

Some [[albinos]] in Tanzania have been the victims of violence in recent years.<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7518049.stm "Living in fear: Tanzania's albinos"]. ''BBC News''.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27409965 "Tanzanian witch doctors arrested over albino killing"]. ''BBC News''.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-21675536 "UN's Navi Pillay condemns Tanzania attacks on albinos"]. ''BBC News''.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091203110635/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/29/tanzania.albinos/ "Report: Scores of albinos in hiding after attacks"]. CNN. 29 November 2009</ref> Attacks are often to hack off the limbs of albinos in the 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>

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.<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}}

===Religion===

{{Main|Religion in Tanzania|Christianity in Tanzania|Islam in Zanzibar}}

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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,'' is generally applied 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.<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>

[[File:Stone Town, St. Joseph Cathedral.jpg|thumb|left|[[St. Joseph's Cathedral, Zanzibar|St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral, Zanzibar]]]]
According to a 2020 estimate by the ''[[CIA World Factbook]]'', 63.1% of the population was [[Christian]], 34.1% was [[Muslim]], 1.1% practised traditional African religions and 1.6% did not specify. 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 [[Irreligious|non-religious]] 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 [[Ahmadiyya]], 20% are [[non-denominational Muslims]], 40% are [[Sunni]], 20% are [[Shia]], and 4% are [[Sufism|Sufi]].<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 [[Indian people|Indian]]/[[Khoja]] heritage in Tanzania are [[Mohammed Dewji]] or [[Amir H. Jamal]].

Within the Christian community, the [[Catholic Church]] is the largest group (51% of 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 [[Lutherans]] and [[Moravian Church|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.<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 ([[East African Revival]]), which has also been fertile ground for the spread of [[Charismatic Christianity|charismatic]] 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=[[Journal of Pentecostal Theology]] |year=2011 |volume=20 |pages=96–121|doi=10.1163/174552511X554573}}</ref> The country also has around 20,000 [[Jehovah's Witnesses]].<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=[[Jehovah's Witnesses]]|access-date=20 September 2024}}</ref>

There are also active communities of other religious groups, primarily on the mainland, such as [[Buddhism|Buddhists]], [[Hinduism in Tanzania|Hindus]], and [[Baháʼí Faith|Bahá'ís]].<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===
{{Main|Languages of Tanzania}}

[[File:Zanzibar door carved.jpg|thumb|upright|right|A carved door with Arabic calligraphy in Zanzibar]]

More than 100 [[Languages of Tanzania|languages are spoken in Tanzania]], making it the most linguistically diverse country in East Africa.<ref name=sim/> Among the languages spoken are four of Africa's language families: [[Bantu languages|Bantu]], [[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]], [[Nilotic languages|Nilotic]], and [[Khoisan languages|Khoisan]].<ref name=sim/> There are no ''de jure'' official languages in Tanzania, with [[Kiswahili]] serving as the national language.<ref name="tzgov"/>

Kiswahili, an [[endonym]] meaning Swahili language, 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 [[Ujamaa]] 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=[https://archive.org/details/lifewithtwolangu0000gros/page/8 8]–}}</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 [[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 consonant]]s, is arguably a [[language isolate]].<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 [[Iraqw people]] is Cushitic.<ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/language/irk "Iraqw"]. ''Ethnologue''.</ref>

===Education and libraries===
{{Main|Education in Tanzania}}

[[File:Nkrumah.JPG|thumb|right|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).<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=[[UNESCO]]|work=[[UNESCO Institute for Statistics|UIS]] 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===
{{Main|Healthcare in Tanzania}}

[[File:Life expectancy in Tanzania.svg|thumb|upright=1.2|Development of life expectancy]]
{{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=[[World Health Organization]] |access-date=15 October 2014 |date=May 2014}}</ref> The [[maternal mortality]] rate in 2013 was estimated at 410 per 100,000 live births.<ref name=who/> [[premature death|Prematurity]] and [[malaria]] 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 }}</ref> The other leading causes of death for these children were, in decreasing order, [[malaria]], [[diarrhoea]], HIV, and [[measles]].<ref name="WHO World Health Statistics 2013"/>

Malaria in Tanzania causes death and disease and has a "huge economic impact".<ref name="Progress">[http://www.rbm.who.int/ProgressImpactSeries/docs/report10-en.pdf "Focus on Mainland Tanzania", Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series, The Roll Back Malaria Partnership, January 2012, accessed 19 October 2014] {{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 [[Kagera Region]] (41.1 per cent) on the western shore of Lake Victoria and lowest in the [[Arusha Region]] (0.1 per cent).<ref name="Progress"/>{{rp|page 12}}

According to the 2010 ''Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2010'', 15 per cent of Tanzanian women had undergone [[female genital mutilation]] (FGM)<ref name="DHS">[http://www.nbs.go.tz/nbs/takwimu/references/2010TDHS.pdf Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2010], 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 [[Manyara Region|Manyara]], [[Dodoma Region|Dodoma]], [[Arusha Region|Arusha]], and [[Singida Region|Singida]] regions and nonexistent in [[Zanzibar]].<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|page 296}} The prevalence of male circumcision was above 90 per cent in the eastern<ref name="cnn091015" /> ([[Dar es Salaam Region|Dar es Salaam]], [[Pwani Region|Pwani]], and [[Morogoro Region|Morogoro]] regions), northern ([[Kilimanjaro Region|Kilimanjaro]], [[Tanga Region|Tanga]], Arusha, and Manyara regions), and central areas (Dodoma and [[Singida Region|Singida]] regions) and below 50 per cent only in the southern highlands zone ([[Mbeya Region|Mbeya]], [[Iringa Region|Iringa]], and [[Rukwa Region|Rukwa]] regions).<ref name="DHS"/>{{rp|pages 6, 230}}

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>[http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.590 "Global Health Observatory Data Repository"]. World Health Organization.</ref> On 21 January 2025, Tanzania's President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has confirmed an outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola. She expressed confidence in the country's ability to overcome the outbreak, emphasizing the importance of public awareness and adherence to health guidelines. The government is implementing measures to contain the virus's spread and is collaborating with international health organizations to manage the situation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tanzania's President Samia Suhulu Hassan confirms Marburg virus outbreak |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e1v1nywy7o |access-date=21 January 2025 |website=www.bbc.com |date=20 January 2025 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

===Women===
[[File:Tanzanian tea farmers.jpg|thumb|Tanzanian women harvesting tea leaves]]
{{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 [[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women]] (CEDAW) in 1985.<ref name="cedaw"/>
Nearly three out of ten women reported having experienced [[sexual violence]] before the age of 18.
<ref name="cedaw"/> The prevalence of [[female genital mutilation]] has decreased.<ref name="cedaw"/>
School girls are reinstated back to school after giving birth.<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 [[Constitution of Tanzania]] requires that women constitute at least 30% of all elected members of [[National Assembly (Tanzania)|National Assembly]].<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 [[maternity leave]] is guaranteed in labour law.<ref name="cedaw"/>

==Culture==
{{Main|Culture of Tanzania}}

===Media===
{{Main|Mass media in Tanzania}}

* [[Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation]]

=== Music ===
{{Main|Music of Tanzania}}

[[File:Ngoma Tanzania.jpg|thumb|right|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 [[Baraza la Sanaa la Taifa|BASATA]] are, [[Ngoma music|ngoma]], [[Muziki wa dansi|dansi]], [[Choir|kwaya]], and [[taarab]], with [[Bongo Flava|bongo flava]] 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=[[University of Chicago Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-226-02981-8 |location=[[Chicago]] |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=[[Duke University Press]] |location=[[Durham, North Carolina|Durham, NC]] |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 [[Dar es Salaam]], 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=[[The Guardian]] |date=17 December 2018 |location=[[Kampala, Uganda]] |language=en}}</ref>

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=[[Routledge]] |year=2008 |isbn=9781135900014 |editor-last=Stone |editor-first=Ruth M. |location=[[New York City|New York]] |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=[[University of Dar es Salaam]] |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=[[Mkuki na Nyota|Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-9987-08-108-0 |location=[[Dar es Salaam|Dar es Salaam, Tanzania]] |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=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-253-11705-2 |editor-last=McNaughton |editor-first=Patrick |location=[[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington, IN]] |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=16 April 2022 |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=[[University of Dar es Salaam|Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam]] |volume=40 |language=sw |issue=40 |archive-date=17 August 2022 |access-date=9 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817003755/http://www.journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/mj/article/view/4823 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Taarab is sung [[Swahili language|Kiswahili]] 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" />

[[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]], [[Rhythm and blues|RnB]], and [[Hip hop music|hip hop]], 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=[[Journal of African Cultural Studies]] |date=2 January 2018 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=65–80 |doi=10.1080/13696815.2015.1125776 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1125776 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |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|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Three recent influence on bongo flava are [[African popular music|Afropop]] in the 2010s, as well as [[amapiano]] from [[South Africa]] 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=[[Africa Development]] |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|url-access=subscription }}</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=[[Africa Today]] |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |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|url-access=subscription }}</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 [[Tempo|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.<ref name="Hutchinson_18" />

From independence until 1993, all recording and distribution of music was strictly managed by BASATA, primarily through [[Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam]] (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=[[British Institute of Eastern Africa|British Institute]] and [[Mkuki na Nyota|Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd]] |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=11 June 1994 |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=[[Indiana University Press]] |location=[[United States]]: [[Indiana]] |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=1 October 2001 |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" />

==== National anthem ====
{{Listen| filename= Tanzanian national anthem, performed by the United States Navy Band.oga| title= National Anthem of Tanzania| description= National Anthem of Tanzania performed by United States Navy Band<ref>{{Cite web |year=1967 |title=United States Navy Ceremonial Music and National Anthems |url=https://www.navyband.navy.mil/media/ceremonial |access-date=3 June 2022 |website=United States Navy Band |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407200810/https://www.navyband.navy.mil/media/ceremonial |url-status=live}}</ref> |header= <big>[[Mungu ibariki Afrika]]</big>| type= music| pos= right}}

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.<ref>[http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/enoch-mankayi-sontonga Enoch Mankayti Sontonga] {{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 22 January 2020</ref> "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]].<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 [[Zimbabwe]] and [[Namibia]], but has since been replaced by original new anthems. Another patriotic song is [[Tanzania Nakupenda Kwa Moyo Wote|Tanzania, Tanzania]].

=== Literature ===
{{Main|Tanzanian literature}}

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}}

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 [[Shaaban Robert]] (considered the father of Swahili literature), [[Aniceti Kitereza]], Muhammed Saley Farsy, Faraji Katalambulla, Adam Shafi Adam, [[Muhammed Said Abdulla|Muhammed Said Abdalla]], [[Peter K. Palangyo]], Said Ahmed Mohammed Khamis, Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed, [[Euphrase Kezilahabi]], [[Gabriel Ruhumbika]], [[Ebrahim Hussein]], [[May Balisidya|May Materru Balisidya]], [[Fadhy Mtanga]], [[Abdulrazak Gurnah]], and [[Penina Muhando|Penina O. Mlama]].<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|pages 76–8}}
[[File:Amani-TT4798.jpg|A [[Tingatinga (painting)|Tingatinga]] painting|thumb]]

=== Painting and sculpture ===

Two Tanzanian art styles have achieved international recognition.<ref name="Doling"/>{{rp|p. 17}} The [[Tingatinga (painting)|Tingatinga]] school of painting, founded by [[Edward Said Tingatinga]], 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}}

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}}

=== Sports ===
[[File:Tanzania National Main Stadium Aerial.jpg|thumb|left|[[National Stadium (Tanzania)|National Stadium]] in [[Dar es Salaam]]]]
{{Main|Sport in Tanzania}}

[[Association football|Football]] 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 [[Tanzanian Premier League|professional football clubs]] in Dar es Salaam are the [[Young Africans F.C.]] and [[Simba S.C.]]<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 [[Tanzania Football Federation]] is the governing body for football in the country.

Other popular sports include [[basketball]], [[netball]], boxing, [[volleyball]], [[athletics (sport)|athletics]], and [[rugby union|rugby]].<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 ===
{{Main|Cinema of Tanzania}}

Tanzania has a popular film industry known as "Bongo Movie".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 April 2021 |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=7 August 2024 |website=The Citizen |language=en}}</ref> It also hosts an international film festival, the [[Zanzibar International Film Festival]].

==See also==
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* [[Outline of Tanzania]]
* [[COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania]]

==Notes==
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