Tag: Tanzania

Natural resources, energy and environment Tanzania is rich in metals, gems and a variety of minerals. In particular, there are large assets of gold…

Religion in Tanzania About a third of the inhabitants of the mainland of the country are adherents of local traditional beliefs, the same number…

Geography to Tanzania Immediately south of the equator, between the Indian Ocean in the east and the lakes of the Central African Rift in…

Currency: Tanzanian Shilling (TZS) Exchange rate: TZS 2,748 TZS per € (November 2020) Time zone: UTC +3 Country code (Tel.): +255 Climate (for Dar…

Culture Art Traditional East African art – in the form of valuable everyday objects, masks, musical instruments, etc. – will hardly be found in…

GDP: $ 65.5 billion (estimated, 2020) Per capita income (purchasing power parity): $ 1,233 (estimated, 2020) Human Development Rank (HDI): Rank 159 of 189…

The education and the health system in Tanzania were once exemplary in Africa. Due to the deteriorating overall economic development, especially during the 1980’s,…

Alphabetized adults: 77.9% (2017) Major religions: Christianity (60%), Islam (36%) (2010) Urban population: 33% (estimated, 2017) Life expectancy (male / female): 63/66 years (2018)…

National efforts To put Tanzania on its own two feet (‘self-reliance’) was one of the goals of Julius Nyerere’s Ujamaa policy. However, demand and…

Agriculture & Fisheries The agriculture is still far from a large proportion (30% in 2017) of the gross domestic product of the agricultural state…

Economy: system and politics The ‘ Ujamaa policy ‘ (Swahili: kinship, brotherhood) founded by Julius Nyerere became the epitome of African socialism. The policy…

For many donor countries, Tanzania is one of the continent’s “model pupils” and also enjoys a good reputation among other African governments as a…

Human rights The human rights situation in Tanzania was also affected by the conflicts in and around Zanzibar. Anyone from Pemba, the stronghold of…

The programmatic differences between the political parties in Tanzania are not very marked. On the mainland, which makes up 80% of the electoral districts,…

The legal system of Tanzania is based on the example of Great Britain, but there is a local pluralism of legal systems in which…

National symbols The most important symbols of national importance are united in the national coat of arms (Nembo) of Tanzania: The flag is the…

Cities and Infrastructure About 57 million people live in Tanzania. After 10 years, another census took place at the end of 2012. With 50…

Natural space and climate Tanzania is located in the (core) tropics of East Africa. However, only the narrow coastal strip along the Indian Ocean,…

Tanzania is located in eastern Africa, below the equator. The mainland of Tanzania is also called Tanganyika and, together with the part of Zanzibar,…