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United Republic of Tanzania

President:John Pombe Joseph Magufuli
Prime Minister:Kassim Majaliwa Majaliwa
Capital city:Dodoma
Languages:Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (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; 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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National statistics office

Population, persons:57,310,019 (2017)
Area, sq km:885,800 (2017)
GDP per capita, US$:936 (2017)
GDP, billion current US$:52.1 (2017)
GINI index:37.8 (2011)
Ease of Doing Business rank:137 (2017)

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- Global Innovation Index, 2016
  
  September 2016
  
  Source: Global Innovation Index
  
  Uploaded by: Knoema
  
  Accessed On: 06 January, 2017
  
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  The Global Innovation Index (GII) aims to capture the multi-dimensional facets of innovation and provide the tools that can assist in tailoring policies to promote long-term output growth, improved productivity, and job growth. The GII helps to create an environment in which innovation factors are continually evaluated. It provides a key tool and a rich database of detailed metrics for 141 economies this year, which represent 95.1% of the world’s population and 98.6% of global GDP.