12th highest fertility rate4.54 children per woman · #12 of 210 · 2024
12th lowest unemployment1.6% · #12 of 186 · 2025
15th lowest health spending per person$36 · #15 of 193 · 2023
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COUNTRYDUEL AFRICA
Surprising facts about Tanzania
The comparisons that stand out most against its neighbours, its region and the world median.
Picked for surprise among Tanzania’s neighbours, its region and the world median.
Tanzania among 213 countries & territories
Each dot shows where Tanzania sits between the lowest and the highest value in the world; “See it” opens the full visual against the
world median. Higher is not automatically better.
World twins
The countries most like Tanzania across 12 indicators (GDP/person, Life exp., Median age, Fertility, Urban, Internet, Schooling, CO₂/person, Density, Temperature, Happiness, Obesity). Each indicator is standardised and compared by average distance; a resemblance, not a score.
Tanzania
vs Burundi 
vs DR Congo 
vs Kenya 
vs Malawi 
vs Mozambique 
vs Rwanda 
vs Uganda 
vs Zambia