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TZA · Sub-Saharan Africa

Tanzania

70,545,865

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1.99M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+105.9%from 34.26M
Life expectancy67.2 years2024
Fertility rate4.54births per woman · 2024
Urban population36.9%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Tanzania is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1442.3%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6454.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate34.8births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+29.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-12.73Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Tanzania look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 129.62M in 2050—89.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202468.56M
  2. 2050129.62M
  3. 2100262.83M
Median age in 205021.8years
Births in 20503.34Mduring the year
Deaths in 2050662.07Kduring the year
Life expectancy71.8years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19609.9M
  2. 197013.49M
  3. 198019.19M
  4. 199026.11M
  5. 200034.26M
  6. 201044.76M
  7. 202060.97M
  8. 202570.55M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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