Tanzanian Americans

Americans of Tanzanian birth or descent

Tanzanian AmericansTotal population

2,921 (ancestry and ethnic origin. 2000 US Census)[1]
Estimated 20,837 (Only born in Tanzania and emigrated to United States, 2008-2010 US Census)[2]
Regions with significant populations

* Chicago metropolitan area, Massachusetts, Wichita, Kansas

Languages

* American English
* Swahili

Religion

* Christianity
* Islam

Lists of Americans

By US state
By ethnicity or nationality

* Afghan
* African Americans
* African-American Jews
* Albanian
* Algerian
* Amish
* Angolan
* Antiguan and Barbudan
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* Argentine
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* Asian
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* Australian
* Austrian
* Azerbaijani

* Bahamian
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* Bangladeshi
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* Bolivian
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* Bulgarian
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* Dutch
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* Ecuadorian
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* Gabonese
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* Pakistani
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* Romani
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* Saint Lucian
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* Somali
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* South African
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* Bhutanese
* Indian
* Indo-Caribbean
* Indo-Fijian
* Nepalese
* Pakistani
* Sri Lankan
* South Sudanese
* Spanish
* Hispanos
* Sri Lankan
* Sudanese
* Surinamese
* Swedish
* Swiss
* Syrian

* Taiwan
* Tajik
* Tanzanian
* Tejanos
* Thai
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* Togolese
* Tongan
* Trinidadian and Tobagonian
* Tunisian
* Turkish

* Ugandan
* Ukrainian
* Uruguayan
* Uzbek
* Uyghur

* Venezuelan
* Vietnamese
* Vincentian
* Virgin Islander

* Welsh

* Yemeni
* Yoruba
* Yugoslav

* Zimbabwean

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Tanzanian Americans are Americans of Tanzanian descent. In the 2000 US Census, 2,921 people reported Tanzanian ancestry. To this figure we must adhere some people (less of 300 each) that hailed be of "Tanganyika" and "Zanzibar Islanders" descend.[1] Between 2009-2011 were registered 20,308 Tanzanians living in United States (this figure excludes Americans descended from Tanzanians).[2]

A drought in Tanzania during the early 1980s caused a worsening of economic conditions in the country and motivated some people to emigrate, arriving in the United States in appreciable numbers beginning in 1986 with the arrival of 370 Tanzanians.[3]

## Demography[edit]

Based on 2009-2011 data, an estimated 15.2 percent (range of estimate: 11.5 to 18.9 percent) of Tanzanian Americans were 17 or younger.[2] Their estimated median age was 37.8 (range of estimate: 35.8 to 39.8 years of age).[2] Approximately 47.9 percent (range of estimate: 41.4 to 54.4 percent) of them had a least a bachelor's degree.[2] An estimated 2.2 percent (range of estimate: 1.1 to 3.3 percent) of them were living outside the U. S. one year before.[2] Of those born outside the U. S., an estimated 40.8 percent had become U. S. citizens.[2] Of all Tanzanian Americans born outside the U. S., an estimated 47.0 percent (range of estimate: 41.8 to 52.2 percent) entered the country after 1999.[2] Their estimated median household income was USD 67,327 (range of estimate: USD 59,861 to 74,793).[2]

Although Tanzania belonged to United Kingdom, only the 16% of the Tanzanian population in United States had the English as tongue mother, while the 84.0% of this population had other languages as mother tongues.[2]

### Tanzanian Americans in Chicago[edit]

Most Tanzanians who have arrived since 1986 have chosen to settle in Chicago.[3] Many of them are students and professionals who came to the city to pursue an advanced degree or work for an employer that sponsored their entry into the United States.[3] Some of the Tanzanians have returned to their home country a few years after arriving in the U. S.[3]

Religion plays an active role in the lives of many Tanzanian Americans in Chicago.[3]

### Tanzanian Americans elsewhere in the United States[edit]

The Tanzanian American associations in the United States include the Tanzanian American Association (Inc.) in Massachusetts[citation needed] and the Tanzania Association Of Wichita, Kansas.[4]

## Notable people[edit]

Ida Ljungqvist

Harold O'Neal

* John Abraham, former mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey
* Ida Ljungqvist, international model
* Clea Koff, forensic anthropologist and author
* Vivek Kundra, former first chief information officer of the United States
* Harold O'Neal, composer

## See also[edit]

* Tanzania portal
* United States portal

* Southeast Africans in the United States
* Tanzanians in the United Kingdom
* Tanzania–United States relations

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2010-12-02.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS). "American FactFinder - Results". Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
3. ^ a b c d e "Tanzanians", Encyclopedia of Chicago, authored by Tramayne M. Butler, 2005
4. ^ "Blog - Tanzania Association Of Wichita -TaWichita". Retrieved 18 March 2015.

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African immigration to the United States

North Africa|

* Algerian
* Canarian
* Egyptian
* Libyan
* Mauritanian
* Moroccan
* Sudanese
* Tunisian

Sub-Saharan Africa|

| Central Africa|

* Cameroonian
* Congolese
* Equatoguinean
* Gabonese

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East Africa|

* Eritrean
* Ethiopian
* Kenyan
* Somali
* South Sudanese

* Tanzanian
* Ugandan

Southern Africa|

* Angolan
* Malawian
* South African
* Zimbabwean

West Africa|

* Beninese
* Bissau-Guinean
* Cape Verdean
* Gambian
* Ghanaian
* Guinean
* Ivorian
* Liberian
* Malian
* Nigerian
* Senegalese
* Sierra Leonean
* Togolese

African ethnic groups
in the United States1|

* Arab
* Bantu in Maine
* Berber
* Coptic
* Fula
* Igbo
* Yoruba

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* Native American religion

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ethnic ancestry|

| Africa|

* African Americans
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* Bahamian Americans
* Barbadian Americans
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* Dominican Americans (Dominica)
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* Black Hispanic and Latino Americans
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* Kenyan Americans
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* Tanzanian Americans
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* West Africans in the United States
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* Gambian Americans
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* Ivorian Americans
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* Nigerian Americans
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* Sierra Leonean Americans
* Togolese Americans
* Yoruba Americans

* Horn of Africa
* Eritrean Americans
* Ethiopian Americans
* Somali Americans

* North Africans in the United States
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* Berber Americans
* Algerian Americans
* Libyan Americans
* Moroccan American
* Tunisian Americans
* Sudanese Americans

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Asia|

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