🇹🇿Tanzania

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Population

70.5M

2.9%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

4.54

births/woman

Life Expectancy

67.2y

GDP / capita

$1.3K

Pop. Growth

2.86%

Net Migration

-12.7K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Tanzania by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇧🇮Burundi241.1K(57.0%)

+117%

🇨🇩Congo, Dem. Rep.76.8K(18.2%)

+23%

🇰🇪

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male35MTotal 70.5M35.6MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

3.7

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇨🇬Congo, Rep.24.2K(5.7%)

−1%

🇲🇿Mozambique14.2K(3.3%)

−50%

🇿🇲Zambia8.3K(2.0%)

−19%

🇮🇳India7.7K(1.8%)

+2%

🇲🇼Malawi6.7K(1.6%)

−5%

🇺🇬Uganda4.7K(1.1%)

−32%

🇸🇴Somalia, Fed. Rep.2.9K(0.7%)

+26%

🇺🇸United States1.2K(0.3%)

+1%

🇦🇴Angola1.2K(0.3%)

+2%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Tanzania diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Tanzania who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇷🇼Rwanda42.7K(19.0%)

−1%

🇧🇮Burundi37.4K(16.6%)

+63%

🇰🇪Kenya32.9K(14.6%)

−16%

🇺🇬Uganda22.8K(10.1%)

−37%

🇨🇦Canada21.1K(9.4%)

+6%

🇴🇲Oman20.9K(9.3%)

+184%

🇿🇲Zambia8.8K(3.9%)

+48%

🇲🇿Mozambique7.7K(3.4%)

+13%

🇲🇼Malawi6.9K(3.1%)

−29%

🇿🇦South Africa6.3K(2.8%)

+19%

🇦🇺Australia4.9K(2.2%)

+29%

🇨🇳China2K(0.9%)

+329%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024