Population 37,187,939
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 (July 2002 est.)

Age structure
0-14 years: 44.6% (male 8,338,764; female 8,247,789)
15-64 years: 52.5% (male 9,674,951; female 9,847,084)
65 years and over: 2.9% (male 483,760; female 595,591) (2002 est.)

Population growth rate 2.6% (2002 est.)

Birth rate 39.12 births/1,000 population (2002 est.)

Death rate 13.02 deaths/1,000 population (2002 est.)

Net migration rate -0.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2002 est.)

Sex ratio
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.81 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2002 est.)

Infant mortality rate 77.85 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.)

Life expectancy at birth
total population: 51.7 years
female: 52.67 years (2002 est.)
male: 50.76 years

Total fertility rate 5.33 children born/woman (2002 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate 8.09% (1999 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS 1.3 million (1999 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths 140,000 (1999 est.)

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 - more than 99% Muslim

Languages Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguju (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: 67.8%
male: 79.4%
female: 56.8% (1995 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding Tanzania on this page is re-published from the 2002 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Tanzania People 2002 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Tanzania People 2002 should be addressed to the CIA.