Tanzania People:
Population:
36,766,356 (July 2005 est.)
note: Estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
Age structure:
0-14 years: 44% (male:8,100,216; female:8,074,171)
15-64 years: 53.4% (male:9,665,957; female:9,963,772)
65 years and over: 2.6% (male:418,080; female:544,160) (2005)
Median age:
total: 17.62 years
male: 17.36 years
female: 17.89 years (2005)
Population growth rate:
1.83% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
38.16 births
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
16.71 deaths
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
-3.11 migrant(s)
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female (2005)
under 15 years: 1 male(s)/female (2005)
15-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female (2005)
65 years and over: 0.77 male(s)/female (2005)
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2005)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 98.54 deaths
/
1,000 live births (2005 est.)
male: 107.85 deaths
/
1,000 live births
female: 88.95 deaths
/
1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total: 45.24 years (2005 est.)
male: 44.56 years
female: 45.94 years
Total fertility rate:
5.06 children born/woman (2005 est.)
HIV/AIDS — adult prevalence rate:
8.8% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS — people living with HIV/AIDS:
1.6 million (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS — deaths:
160,000 (2004 est.)
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: malaria, Rift Valley fever and plague are high risks in some locations
water contact disease: schistosomiasis (2004)
Nationality:
noun: Tanzanian(s)
adjective: Tanzanian
Ethnic groups:
mainland: native African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab);
Zanzibar: Arab , native African , mixed Arab and native African ;
Religions:
mainland: Christian 30%, Muslim 35%, indigenous beliefs 35%;
Zanzibar: Muslim more than 99%;
Languages:
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, and it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write Kiswahili (Swahili), English, or Arabic
total population: 78.2%
male: 85.9%
female: 70.7% (2003)
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