Tanzania - Geography
Here, let us take a look at the Geography of Tanzania. Kilimanjaro is the highest point in Africa and one of only three mountain ranges on the continent that has glaciers (the others are Mount Kenya in Kenya and the Ruwenzori Mountains on the Uganda-Democratic Republic of the Congo border); Tanzania is bordered by three of the largest lakes on the continent: Lake Victoria (the world's second-largest freshwater lake) in the north, Lake Tanganyika (the world's second-deepest) in the west, and Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) in the southwest. Mother's mean age at first birth is N/A , whereas, the Maternal mortality ratio is N/A.
Population Distribution
The largest and most populous East African country; population distribution is extremely uneven, but greater population clusters occur in the northern half of country and along the east coast, as shown in this population distribution map
People and Society
In Tanzania, the different Ethnic groups are such that we have: Mainland - African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, African, mixed Arab and African
| Population | N/A |
|---|---|
| Pop growth rate | 2.85% (2025 est.) |
| Birth rate | 33.45 births/1,000 population (2025 est.) |
| Death rate | 4.96 deaths/1,000 population (2025 est.) |
| Current health expenditure | N/A |
| Physicians Density | N/A |
| Hospital bed Density | 0.6 beds/1,000 population (2020 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 4.45 children born/woman (2025 est.) |
| Gross reproduction rate | 2.19 (2025 est.) |
| Contraceptive prevalence rate | N/A |
| Est married women (ages 15-49) | N/A |
| Literacy | N/A |
| Education expenditures | N/A |
| Net Migration rate | N/A |
| Nationality | Tanzanian | Tanzanian(s) |
| Languages | N/A |
| Religions | N/A |
| Age Structure | |
| 0-14 years | 41.2% (male 14,039,292/female 13,740,439) |
| 15-64 years | 55.4% (male 18,677,388/female 18,708,390) |
| 65 years and over | 3.4% (2024 est.) (male 975,224/female 1,321,388) |
| Dependency Ratios | |
| Total dependency ratio | 81.8 (2025 est.) |
| Youth dependency ratio | 76 (2025 est.) |
| Elderly dependency ratio | 5.8 (2025 est.) |
| Potential support ratio | 17.3 (2025 est.) |
| Median Age | |
| Total | 18.8 years (2025 est.) |
| Male | 18.8 years |
| Female | 19.4 years |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 37.4% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 4.89% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 262,000 Dodoma (legislative capital) (2018), 7.776 million DAR ES SALAAM (administrative capital), 1.311 million Mwanza, 800,000 Zanzibar (2023). |
| Sex Ratio | |
| At birth | 1.03 male(s)/female |
| 0-14 years | 1.02 male(s)/female |
| 15-64 years | 1 male(s)/female |
| 65 years and over | 0.74 male(s)/female |
| Total population | 1 male(s)/female (2024 est.) |
| Infant Motality | |
| Total | 28.4 deaths/1,000 live births (2025 est.) |
| Male | 32.3 deaths/1,000 live births |
| Female | 26.9 deaths/1,000 live births |
| Life Expectancy at birth | |
| Total population | 70.8 years (2024 est.) |
| Male | 69 years |
| Female | 72.6 years |
| Drinking Water Sources | |
| Improved: urban | urban: 81.1% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: rural | rural: 49% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: total | total: 60.8% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: urban | urban: 18.9% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: rural | rural: 51% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: total | total: 39.2% of population (2022 est.) |
| Sanitation facility acess | |
| Improved: urban | urban: 89.6% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: rural | rural: 27.2% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: total | total: 50.1% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: urban | urban: 10.4% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: rural | rural: 72.8% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: total | total: 49.9% of population (2022 est.) |
| Major Infectious diseases | |
| Alcohol consumption per capita | |
| Total | 7.81 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Beer | 0.74 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Wine | 0.09 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Spirits | 0.38 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Other alcohols | 6.6 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Tobacco use | |
| Total | 6.5% (2025 est.) |
| Male | 11.3% (2025 est.) |
| Female | 2% (2025 est.) |
| Child marriage | |
| Women married by age 15 | 5.2% (2022) |
| Women married by age 18 | 29.1% (2022) |
| Men married by age 18 | 3.5% (2022) |
Demographic profile
All Important Facts about Tanzania
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