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These ethnic groups are of Bantu origin, with large Nilotic-speaking, moderate indigenous, and small non-African minorities. The country lacks a clear dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukuma people, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed by the Wanyakyusa and the Chagga.
Demographics of Tanzania, Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; Number of inhabitants in millions. According to the 2012 census, the total population was 44,928,923 compared to 12,313,469 in 1967, [2]: 1 resulting in an annual growth rate of 2.9 percent. The under 15 age group represented 44.1 percent of the population, with 35.5 percent being ...
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Tanzania" The following 140 pages are in this category, out of 140 total. ... Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics;
Pangani District has the lowest population of 54,025. [12] Tanga is home to around six major indigenous ethnic groups. It is the ancestral home to the Bondei people located on the central east coast of the Tanga Region, the majority in Pangani district and Muheza District .
The 2022 census is the most recent census for which results have been reported. The total population of Zanzibar was 1,889,773 people – with an annual growth rate of 3.8 percent. [48] The population of Zanzibar City, which was the largest city, was 219,007. [49]
Indian Tanzanians constitute a significant minority within the demographic landscape of Tanzania, over 60,000 Tanzanian citizens of Indian descent reside in the country. [4] Many among them are wealthy traders and entrepreneurs , and despite forming only 0.2% of the population, they are considered by the Hindu Council of Tanzania to have ...
Tanzania, [c] officially the United Republic of Tanzania, [d] is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
The Chagga (Wachagga, in Swahili) is a Bantu ethnic group from Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania and Arusha Region of Tanzania. They are the third-largest ethnic group in Tanzania. [ 2 ] They historically lived in sovereign Chagga states on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro [ 3 ] [ 4 ] in both Kilimanjaro Region and Arusha Region .