Tanzania population growth rate down by 2030

BY DAILY NEWS WRITER

It assumed that for the period of 2013 to 2035, the population growth of the country will decrease to 3.1 per cent in 2013 to 2.3 percent in 2035, reads the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) website.

The Population Projections for the Period of 2013 to 2035 at National Level report launched in Dar es Salaam by Finance and Planning Minister Dr Philip Mpango, projects that Tanzania population growth rate will decrease from 3.1 percent in 2013 (with a population of 46,356,279) to 2.8 percent in 2035 (with a population of 89,204,781).
For the Tanzania Mainland population growth rate will also decrease from 3.1 in 2013 (with a population of 45,007,503) to 2.8 percent in 2035 (with a population of 86,871,546).
In Tanzania Zanzibar, the population growth rate will decrease from 3.4 percent in 2013 (with a population of 1,348,776) to 1.9 percent in 2035 (with a population of 2,333,235).
As for mortality, according to Infant Mortality Rates (IMRs) in Tanzania and Tanzania Mainland are expected to decline for both sexes from 43 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2013 to 13 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2035.
It has projected that, for Tanzania Zanzibar, IMRs will decline from 38 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2013 to 13 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2035.