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Tanzania Fact Sheet
In that year approximately 3% of the population was over 65 years of age, with another 45% of the population under 15 years of age.2 The current population is around 38 million with estimates of 66.8 million by 2050.3 More than 80% of Tanzania�s population live in rural areas and only 62% of that rural population has access to clean drinking water.4 Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world with the average per capita income at $250 and 73% of the population living on less than $2 a day.5 One person in five in the Mbeya region in the southwest lives in poverty, but more than half the people in Singida region, in central Tanzania, and Lindi region in the southeast are below the poverty line, the UN agency says.6 The use of the environment and natural resources accounts for 66% of gross domestic product, provides 85% of exports, and employs 90% of the work force.7 The conflict in the Congo between rebel soldiers and government forces has been raging since the mid-1990s and claimed the lives of 3.3 million people - the highest documented death toll since World War II.8 As a result of innocents fleeing war zones, Tanzania is host to around 400,000 refugees from other countries in the region.9 The fertility rate in Tanzania has not changed in ten years and Tanzanian women have an average of 5.7 children. This is one of the higher fertility rates in East Africa.10 More than 25% of young women age 15-19 have begun childbearing. Only 20% of married women of reproductive age use modern methods of contraception.11 |
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Between January 13-23 2008, GVN is offering a hike to raise funds for the Shelter Childrens Home in Massailand, Kenya. > Read More