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Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Tanzania economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends.
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USD 57.9 billion (2018, estimate)
Intl$ 175.8 billion (2018, estimate)
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* |
6.7% | 6.2% | 6.9% | 6.8% | 6.6% |
*Estimate
(2017 estimate)
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* |
5.6% | 5.2% | 5.3% | 3.5% | 3.6% |
*Estimate
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* |
35.9% | 36.4% | 36.6% | 37.3% | 37.7% |
*Estimate
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* |
-3.2% | -2.1% | -1.2% | -1.9% | -2.9% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: B1
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated 2019)
-3.7% (2018 estimate)
15.1% (2017)
0.02% (2018)
0.06% (2018)
Gold, coffee, cashew nuts, manufactures, cotton
Consumer goods, machinery and transportation equipment, industrial raw materials, crude oil
India 21.8%, South Africa 17.9%, Kenya 8.8%, Switzerland 6.7%, Belgium 5.9%, Democratic Republic of the Congo 5.8%, China 4.8% (2017)
India 16.5%, China 15.8%, UAE 9.2%, Saudi Arabia 7.9%, South Africa 5.1%, Japan 4.9%, Switzerland 4.4% (2017)
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 864 million | USD 938 million | USD 1,105 million |
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: 141 out of 190 countries (2019)
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 162 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 149 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 85 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 146 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 67 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 105 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 165 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 182 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 71 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 116 out of 190 countries
117 out of 141 countries
(2019)
Ranking: 94 / Score: 60.2 (Moderately free) (2019)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed )
Dar es Salaam (administrative capital), Dodoma (legislative capital)
Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages
Note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources including Arabic and English; it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages
Christian 61.4%, Muslim 35.2%, folk religion 1.8%, other 0.2%, unaffiliated 1.4%
Note: Zanzibar is almost entirely Muslim (2010 est.)
1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015* | 2020* |
24.51 million | 32.54 million | 43.06 million | 49.99 million | 58 million |
*Estimate
1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2020 |
5.2% | 14.6% | 22.3% | 33.8% |
Total population: 77.9%
Male: 83.2%
Female: 73.1% (2015 est.)
(age 15 and over can read and write Kiswahili (Swahili), English, or Arabic)
79% (2018)
37.8 (2011)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Political Rights: 4
Civil Liberties: 5 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 0.2% Mobile 77.2% (2018)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)