Country Facts
Name: United Republic of Tanzania
Populatiom: 45 million (UN, 2010)
Capital: Dodoma (0fficial)/ Dar (commercial)
Area: 945,087 km squared
Languages: English, Swahili
Religions: Christianity, Islam
Life Expectancy: men-57 years, women-59 years (UN,2010)
Currency: 1 Tanzanian shilling = 100 cents/ $1 dollar
GNI/capita: US $500 (World Bank, 2009)
International Dialing Code: +255
Education
-Carleton has an exchange agreement with the University of Dar es Salaam that allows students of both schools to pay their home school’s tuition and to attend the opposite school for a full school year
-Institute of Rural Development Planning in Dodoma has a new academic course in finance development planning and investment that will support the growing private sector
Economy
-annual growth rate since 2006 6.8% (IMF)
-gold earnings are rising
-high levels of poverty but improving
Politics
-stable, 1992 was the year of the re-introduction of multi-party politics
-hosts thousands of refugees from conflicts in countries of the Great Lakes Regions
International
-planned highway through Serengeti game park might threaten plants and animals who live there but also could be a huge tourism draw
-construction of a 532 km gas pipeline agreed upon by China and Tanzania for US $1 billion