People Of Tanzania

Population	36,588,225 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 2004 est.)
Age structure	0-14 years: 44.2% (male 8,102,692; female 8,055,370) 15-64 years: 53.2% (male 9,646,342; female 9,834,925) 65 years and over: 2.6% (male 410,477; female 538,419) (2004 est.)
Median age	total: 17.6 years male: 17.3 years female: 17.8 years (2004 est.)
Population growth rate	1.95% (2004 est.)
Birth rate	39 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Death rate	17.45 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Net migration rate	-2.06 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 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: 0.76 male(s)/female total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2004 est.)
Infant mortality rate	total: 102.13 deaths/1,000 live births female: 92.35 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.) male: 111.62 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth	total population: 44.39 years male: 43.2 years female: 45.61 years (2004 est.)
Total fertility rate	5.15 children born/woman (2004 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 (2003 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	conventional long form: United Republic of Tanzania conventional short form: Tanzania former: United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar

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This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.

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