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Tanzania

Tanzania's best placing is 16th of 194 for forest.

Best placing: #16Forest
Top 10 placings: 0 / 17
Population: 70.5 million
Land area: 885,800 km²

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Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking Tanzania is.

Forest

#16 of 194

443,380 km² of forest

3rd in Africa · World Bank · 2023

Population

#21 of 195

70,545,865 people

5th in Africa · World Bank · 2025

Airports

#29 of 193

206 airports

5th in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Land area

#31 of 194

885,800 km² of land

14th in Africa · World Bank · 2023

Forest by area

#46 of 194

50.1 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Forest per person

#55 of 194

0.0063 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Railways

#44 of 135

4,097 km of railway

5th in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2022

Coastline

#65 of 151

1,424 km of coastline

11th in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

GDP

#80 of 182

90,143,496,090 US$ (current prices)

12th in Africa · World Bank · 2025

Land area per person

#89 of 194

0.013 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Rainfall

#87 of 179

1,071 mm of precipitation per year

23rd in Africa · World Bank · 2022

Population by area

#106 of 194

79.64 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

Airports by area

#122 of 191

2.33 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Airports per person

#124 of 192

2.92 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Railways by area

#91 of 133

4.63 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2022

Railways per person

#94 of 134

58.08 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2022

GDP per person

#161 of 182

1,278 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

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