WORKFORCE

68.8 Percent of Tanzanians Have No Education Beyond Primary School. In Kenya It Is 34.6 Percent. That Gap Has a Price.

The NBS Household Energy Consumption Survey 2023 confirms that 68.8 percent of Tanzanians aged five ...

Jul 18 10 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania's Vision 2050 First Goal Is Job Creation. Where Will the New Jobs Come From?

Tanzania employment targets: 1,700,000 new jobs in FY2026/27, 8,500,000 cumulative by 2030/31. Basel...

Jun 22 3 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania Already Has Its Industrialists. They Are Currently Traders. The Path to a USD 1 Trillion Economy Runs Through Converting One Into the Other.

The assumption embedded in most of Tanzania's industrial policy discourse is that industrialisation ...

Apr 30 19 min

WORKFORCE

East Africa Is Producing More Graduates Than Ever. It Is Also Running Out of the Skills It Actually Needs. That Contradiction Is Not an Accident.

Across East Africa, university enrolment has grown faster than at any point in the post-independence...

Apr 5 15 min

WORKFORCE

East Africa's Investment Surge Has a Skills Problem. The Capital Is Arriving. The People Who Know How to Deploy It Are Not.

Tanzania registered USD 10.95 billion in approved investment capital in 2025. The World Bank committ...

Apr 5 16 min

WORKFORCE

Eight Million Jobs by 2030: Why Tanzania Must Reform Education, Rewrite Its Stories, and Raise Builders

Tanzania’s goal of creating eight million jobs by 2030 will fail unless the country abandons an ed...

Nov 28 5 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania and Nigeria Are Nearly the Same Size, but Tanzania Could Reach 118 Million People by 2050 as Nigeria Shows the Cost of Growth Without Planning

Tanzania covers about 947,300 square kilometres compared with Nigeria’s 923,770 square kilometres,...

Oct 31 13 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzanian Women Earn 15% Less Than Men as Economic Participation Gaps Persist

Tanzanian women in paid employment earn 84.6 percent of male income, face higher unemployment and re...

Oct 30 11 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania’s Private Sector Employs 70% of Formal Workers, but Public Employees Earn More Than Twice as Much

Tanzania’s private sector now provides more than seven in every ten formal jobs, yet public sector...

Oct 29 10 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania Is Creating More Work, But 95.7% of Employment Remains Informal

National Bureau of Statistics and Office of the Chief Government Statistician, The Labour Market: Ke...

Oct 29 10 min

WORKFORCE

Two Million Tanzanians Reach Working Age Every Year. Where Will They Work?

About two million Tanzanians reach working age every year while only around 400,000 leave it. With 9...

Oct 3 18 min

WORKFORCE

95% of Tanzania’s Employment Is Informal. Can Vision 2050 Reverse It?

About 95% of Tanzania’s employment is informal, while Vision 2050 targets at least 50% of Tanzania...

Oct 3 16 min