Population: 36,766,356 Age structure: 0-14 years: 44% (male 8,100,216/female 8,074,171) 15-64 years: 53.4% (male 9,665,957/female 9,963,772) 65 years and over: 2.6% (male 418,080/female 544,160) (2005 est.) Population growth rate: 1.83% (2005 est.)Birth rate: 38.16 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)Death rate: 16.71 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.) Sex ratio: At birth: 1.03 male(s)/femaleLife expectancy at birth: Total population: 45.24 years; Male: 44.56 years; Female: 45.94 years (2005 est.) Food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever Vectorborne diseases: malaria, Rift Valley fever and plague are high risks in some locations Nationality: noun: Tanzanian(s); adjective: Tanzanian; Ethnic groups: mainland - native African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, native African, mixed Arab and native AfricanReligions: mainland - Christian 30%, Muslim 35%, indigenous beliefs 35%; Zanzibar - more than 99% MuslimLanguages: Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguju (name for Swahili in Zanzibar ), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar ), many local languages note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources, including Arabic and English, and it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages
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