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Tanzania

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Tanzania is a country. The capital city is Dodoma, located in the Eastern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 885,800 km², a population of 66,617,606 people and uses the currency Tanzanian shilling. The President is John Magufuli.

Key facts

currency: Tanzanian shilling
capital city: Dodoma
region: Eastern Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 885,800 km²
population: 66,617,606 people
political leader: John Magufuli (President)

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expense: 16.85 % of GDP
GDP: 79,062,403,820.89 current US$
inflation: 3.80 annual %
self-employed workers: 85.52 % of total employment
tax revenue: 11.49 % of GDP
unemployment: 2.58 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 83.88 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 28,000 people
democracy score: 5.41
democracy type: Hybrid regime
individuals using the Internet: 29.10 % of population
military expenditure: 1.15 % of GDP
net migration: -39,388 people
press freedom: 2.16
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 37.40 %
birth rate: 35.81 per 1,000 people
death rate: 5.96 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 37.16 current US$
health expenditure: 3.36 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.54 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.63 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 67
suicide mortality rate: 4.30 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 395,212.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.72 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 19.37 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 45.80 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 43.91 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 33.49 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 21.94 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.67 % of total
net energy imports: 10.73 % of energy use
fertility rate: 4.66 births per woman
forest area: 448,070 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 14.38 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 89.82 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 13.30
methane emissions: 53.37 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 17.30 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 33,603,791 people
male population: 33,013,815 people
renewable energy consumption: 78.30 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 880,726.40 km²
rural population: 41,696,626 people
urban land area: 5,282.87 km²
urban population: 24,920,980 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.10 % of total population

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