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TANZANIAUnited Republic of Tanzania GEOGRAPHY: - Location:----------------- Eastern Africa
- Area:
Total area:--- 945,090 sq. km
Land area:--- 886,040 sq. km
- Capital
city:------------- Dar es Salaam
- Natural Resources:---------------- Hydropower potential, tin,
phosphates, iron ore, coal, diamonds, gemstones, gold, natural gas, nickel.
PEOPLE:
- Population:---------------- 30,608,769
- Literacy rate:-------------- 67.8% of total
population, (Males:79.4%, Females:56.8%).
- Languages:------------------ Kiswahili (official),
English (official).
- Religious:----------------- Mainland: 45%-Christian, 35%-Muslim, 20%-indigenous
beliefs. -Zanzibar : 99%-Muslim.
VITAL STATISTICS:
- Birth rate:-------------
40.92 (per 1,000 population)
- Death rate:------------- 19.84 (per 1,000 population)
- Infant Mortality rate:------------ 105.9 (deaths per 1,000 live births)
- Fertility
rate:--------------- 5.58 (per woman)
- Life Expectancy at birth:
Total population:---
41.71 (Males:40.34, Females:43.13).
GOVERNMENT:
- Type of Government:--------------
Republic
- Independence:-------------- April 26, 1964; Tanganyika became independent December
9, 1961 (from UK-administered UN trusteeship.
- President:-------------- Jakaya Kikwete
- Prime Mininster:------------ Frederick Sumaye.
ECONOMY:
- GDP:---------------
purchasing power parity - $18.9 billion (1995)
GDP real growth rate:--- 3.5%
GDP per capita:---
$650
- Inflation rate (consumer prices):------------- 30% (1995)
- National
budget:
Revenues:--- $495 million
Expenditures:--- $631 billion
- External Debt:-------------- $7.4 billion
- Currency:--------------- 1 Tanzanian shilling
= 100 cents
- Labor force:--------------- 13.495 million (1995)
- Unemployment
rate:---------------- NA%
- Agriculture:---------------- Coffee, sisal, tea, cotton, pyrethrum
(insecticide made from chrysanthemums), cashews, tobacco, cloves (Zanzibar), corn, wheat, cassava(tapioca), bananas, fruits,
vegetables; cattle, sheep, goats.
- Industries:--------------- Primarily agricultural processing
(sugar beer, cigarettes, sisal twine), diamond and gold mining, oil refining, shoes, cement, textiles, wood products, sisal.
- Exports:---------------- $679 billion
Commodities:--- Coffee, cotton, tobacco,
tea, cashew nuts, sisal. - Imports:---------------- $1.69 billion
Commodities:---
Manufactured goods, machinery and transportation equipment, cotton piece goods, crude oil, foodstuffs.
DEFENCE:
- Defence Expenditures:--------------- Exchange rate conversion - $69 million, NA% of GDP.
Geography:Tanzania is located in east Africa on the Indian Ocean.
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