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Tanzania has a current population of 55.57 million people. [1] Current statistics form the World Bank show that in 2011, 49.1% of Tanzanians lived below US$1.90 per day. This figure is an improvement over 2007's report indicating a poverty rate of 55.1%. [2]
This is a list of regions of Mainland Tanzania by poverty rate as of 2018. The international poverty rate used by the World Bank is used in the following list. The estimates can therefore differ from other estimates, like the national poverty rate. The national poverty rate was estimated to be 25.7% in 2020. [1]
According to World Bank, "Poverty headcount ratio at a defined value a day is the percentage of the population living on less than that value a day at 2017 purchasing power adjusted prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions."
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The economy of Tanzania is a lower-middle income economy [23] [24] that is centered around Manufacturing, Tourism, Agriculture, and financial services. [25] Tanzania 's economy has been transitioning from a planned economy to a market economy since 1985.
The WBG provides analytical and technical assistance in coordination with these projects. From 2007-2018 Tanzania maintained real GDP growth averaging 6.8% a year. Growth concentrated in the agricultural and transportation sectors. [3] Complementing this growth, the poverty rate in Tanzania fell from 28.2% in 2012 to 26.9% in 2016. [4]
The supplemental poverty measure (SPM) child poverty rate increased by 1.3 percentage points to 13.7 % in 2023. Social Security continues to be the largest anti-poverty program, moving 27.6 ...
The Tanzanian political infrastructure created after the 1961 independence declaration was a critical response to colonialist values. The British had held the mainland part of modern Tanzania as a mandated territory (as a former German colony) under the League of Nations after World War I. (Mandated territories could not be colonised by the responsible power, but had to be led through to self ...