Why Africa?
SOURCE: CIA WORLD FACT BOOK
POPULATION 37,445,392
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
POPULATION BELOW THE POVERTY LINE 36% (2002 est.)
LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH total population: 45.64 years
male: 44.93 years
female: 46.37 years (2006 est.)
RELIGIONS mainland - Christian 30%, Muslim 35%, indigenous beliefs 35%; Zanzibar - more than 99% Muslim