Tanzanian Americans

Americans of Tanzanian birth or descent

Ethnic group

Tanzanian AmericansTotal population

2,921 (ancestry and ethnic origin. 2000 US Census)[1]
Estimated 40,420 (Only born in Tanzania and emigrated to the United States, 2023 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

* Afghan
* African Americans
* African-American Jews
* Alabama Creoles
* Albanian
* Algerian
* Amish
* Anglo-Americans
* Angolan
* Antiguan and Barbudan
* Arab
* Argentine
* Armenian
* Asian
* Assyrian
* Australian
* Austrian
* Azerbaijani

* Bahamian
* Baloch
* Bangladeshi
* Barbadian
* Basque
* Belarusian
* Belgian
* Belizean
* Beninese
* Berber
* Bermudian
* Bissau-Guinean
* Bolivian
* Bosniak
* Bosnian
* Brazilian
* British
* Bulgarian
* Burmese

* Caucasian peoples
* Chechen
* Lezgin
* Circassian
* Georgian
* Californios
* Cambodian
* Cameroonian
* Canadian
* Canarian
* Isleños
* Louisiana Isleños
* Cape Verdean
* Catalan
* Caribbean
* Garifuna
* Indo-Caribbean
* Central Asian
* Afghan
* Kazakh
* Tajikistani
* Uzbek
* Chamorros
* Chilean
* Chinese
* Fuzhou
* Hakka
* Hoklo
* Hongkonger
* Colombian
* Congolese
* Coptic
* Cornish
* Cossack
* Costa Rican
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* Cuban
* Cypriot
* Czech

* Danish
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* Dutch
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* Ecuadorian
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* English
* Equatoguinean
* Eritrean
* Estonian

* Faroese
* Fijian
* Indo-Fijian
* Filipino
* Finnish
* French
* French-Canadian
* French Polynesian
* Frisian
* Fula

* Gabonese
* Galician
* Gambian
* German
* Ghanaian
* Greek
* Greenlandic
* Grenadian
* Guatemalan
* Guinean
* Guyanese

* Habesha peoples
* Ethiopian
* Eritrean
* Haitian
* Hmong
* Honduran
* Hongkongese
* Hungarian

* Icelandic
* Igbo
* Indian
* Bengali
* Gujarati
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* Indo-Fijian
* Malayali
* Punjabi
* Tamil
* Telugu
* Indonesian
* Iranian
* Iraqi
* Irish
* Irish Travellers
* Israeli
* Italian
* Iu Mien
* Ivorian

* Jamaican
* Japanese
* Jews
* African-American Jews
* Guamanian Jews
* Melungeon Jews
* Old Stock Jews
* Puerto Rican Jews
* Syrian Jews
* Jordanian

* Kalmyk
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* Kazakh
* Kenyan
* Kittian and Nevisian
* Korean
* Kurdish
* Kuwaiti

* Laotian
* Latino
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* Liberian
* Libyan
* Liechtensteiner
* Lithuanian
* Louisiana Cajun
* Louisiana Creole
* Luxembourg

* Macedonian
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* Malian
* Maltese
* Malaysian
* Manx
* Māori
* Marshallese
* Mauritanian
* Métis
* Mexican
* Melungeon
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* Micronesian
* Moldovan
* Mongolian
* Montenegrin
* Moroccan

* Native American
* Native Hawaiian
* Nepalese
* New Zealand
* Nicaraguan
* Nigerian
* Igbo
* Yoruba
* Nuevomexicano
* Norwegian

* Old Stock

* Pakistani
* Baloch
* Punjabi
* Sindhi
* Palauan
* Palestinian
* Panamanian
* Paraguayan
* Peruvian
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Puerto Rican

* Romani
* Bashalde
* Romanian
* Russian
* Russian Mennonites
* Rusyn

* Saint Lucian
* Salvadoran
* Sammarinese
* Samoan
* Saudi
* Scotch-Irish
* Scottish
* Senegalese
* Serbian
* Sicilian
* Sierra Leonean
* Singaporean
* Slovak
* Slovene
* Somali
* Sorbian
* South African
* South Asian
* Bangladeshi
* 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
* Tibetan
* 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] In 2023 were registered 40,420 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]

## Demographics

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Based on 2009-2011 data, 20,837 Tanzanians lived in the United States in these years. At this time, an estimated 15.2 percent (range of estimate: 11.5 to 18.9 percent) of Tanzanian Americans were 17 or younger.[4] Their estimated median age was 37.8 (range of estimate: 35.8 to 39.8 years of age).[4] Approximately 47.9 percent (range of estimate: 41.4 to 54.4 percent) of them had a least a bachelor's degree.[4] 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.[4] Of those born outside the U. S., an estimated 40.8 percent had become U. S. citizens.[4] 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.[4] Their estimated median household income was USD 67,327 (range of estimate: USD 59,861 to 74,793).[4]

Although Tanzania belonged to United Kingdom, only the 16% of the Tanzanian population in United States had english as their native language, while 84.0% of the population had other languages as their native languages.[4]

### Tanzanian Americans in Chicago

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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

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Tanzanian American associations in the United States include the Tanzanian American Association (Inc.) in Massachusetts[citation needed] and the Tanzania Association Of Wichita, Kansas.[5]

## Notable people

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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

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* Tanzania portal
* United States portal

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

## References

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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 Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS). "American FactFinder - Results".
3. ^ a b c d e "Tanzanians", Encyclopedia of Chicago, authored by Tramayne M. Butler, 2005
4. ^ a b c d e f g h Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS). "American FactFinder - Results". Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
5. ^ "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
* Moroccan
* Tunisian

Sub-Saharan Africa|

| Central Africa|

* Cameroonian
* Congolese
* Equatoguinean
* Gabonese

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East Africa|

* Eritrean
* Ethiopian
* Kenyan
* Somali
* South Sudanese
* Sudanese
* Tanzanian
* Ugandan

Southern Africa|

* Angolan
* Malawian
* South African
* Zimbabwean

West Africa|

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

African ethnic groups
in the United States1|

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

1 Several African ethnic groups are dispersed throughout different areas of Africa, regardless of countries or regions.

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Demographics of the United States

Demographic history

Socioeconomic status

* Affluence
* Gender inequality
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* Home-ownership
* Household income
* Housing segregation
* Immigration
* Income inequality
* Language
* LGBT
* Middle classes
* Personal income
* Poverty
* Racial inequality
* Race and health
* Racial achievement gap
* Racial wage gap
* Social class
* Standard of living
* Unemployment by state
* Wealth
* Ethnocultural politics

Religions

* Baha'is
* Buddhists
* Christians
* Catholics
* Coptics
* Mormons
* Protestants
* Hindus
* Jains
* Jews
* Muslims
* Ahmadiyyas
* Five Percenters
* Moorish Scientists
* Nation of Islam
* Value Creators
* Native American
* Neopagans
* Non-religious
* Rastafaris
* Scientologists
* Sikhs
* Zoroastrians

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Ancestry and ethnicity in the United States

Africa

| Central Africa|

* Cameroonian
* Congolese
* Equatoguinean
* Gabonese

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East Africa|

* Eritrean
* Ethiopian
* Kenyan
* Somali
* South Sudanese
* Tanzanian
* Ugandan

North Africa|

* Arab/Berber
* Algerian
* Egyptian
* Coptic
* Libyan
* Moroccan
* Sudanese
* Tunisian

Southern Africa|

* Angolan
* Malawian
* South African
* Zimbabwean

West Africa|

* Beninese
* Cape Verdean
* Fula
* Gambian
* Ghanaian
* Guinean
* Guinea-Bissauan
* Ivorian
* Liberian
* Malian
* Mauritanian
* Nigerian
* Igbo
* Yoruba
* Senegalese
* Sierra Leonean
* Togolese

Americas

| General/misc.|

* African Americans
* Asian Americans
* Native Americans
* Pacific Islanders
* White Americans
* Non-Hispanic whites
* Appalachians
* Hispanic and Latino
* Asian Latino
* Black Latino
* Mestizo
* White Latino

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Indigenous|

* Abenaki
* Alaska Natives
* Aleut
* Alutiiq
* Athabaskans
* Gwich'in
* Haida
* Iñupiat
* Tsimshian
* Tlingit
* Yupik
* Apache
* Blackfeet
* Cherokee
* Cheyenne
* Chickasaw
* Choctaw
* Colville
* Comanche
* Cree
* Crow
* Houma
* Iroquois
* Cayuga
* Mohawk
* Oneida
* Onondaga
* Seneca
* Tuscarora
* Kiowa
* Lenape
* Menominee
* Mohave
* Mission Indians
* Cahuilla
* Chemehuevi
* Chumash
* Cupeño
* Diegueño
* Esselen
* Juaneño
* Kitanemuk
* Luiseño
* Miwok
* Patwin
* Pomo
* Salinan
* Serrano
* Suisunes
* Ohlone
* Awaswas
* Chalon
* Chochenyo
* Karkin
* Tamyen
* Tataviam
* Tongva
* Wappo
* Wintun
* Yokuts
* Muscogee
* Navajo
* Ojibwe
* Osage
* Odawa
* Paiute
* Pawnee
* Pima
* Potawatomi
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* Quechan
* Salish
* Seminole
* Shawnee
* Shoshone
* Sioux
* Tohono Oʼodham
* Ute
* Yakama
* Yaqui

Caribbean|

* Anglo-Caribbean
* Antiguan
* Bahamian
* Barbadian
* Bermudian
* Dominican (Commonwealth)
* Grenadian
* Indo-Caribbean
* Jamaican
* Kittian
* St. Lucian
* Trinidadian
* Vincentian
* Virgin Islanders
* Dutch Caribbean
* Latin Caribbean
* Cuban
* Dominican (Republic)
* Haitian
* Puerto Ricans
* Stateside Puerto Ricans

North America|

* Belizean
* Canadian
* French Canadian
* Greenlandic
* Latin North/Central American
* Costa Rican
* Guatemalan
* Honduran
* Mexican
* Indigenous Mexican
* Nicaraguan
* Panamanian
* Salvadoran

South America|

* Guyanese
* Latin South American
* Argentine
* Bolivian
* Brazilian
* Chilean
* Colombian
* Ecuadorian
* Paraguayan
* Peruvian
* Surinamese
* Uruguayan
* Venezuelan

Asia

| Central Asia|

* Afghan
* Pashtun
* Kazakh
* Kyrgyz
* Tajik
* Turkmen
* Uzbek

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East Asia|

* Chinese
* Fuzhounese
* Hakka
* Hoklo
* Hong Kong
* Taiwanese
* Tibetan
* Uyghur
* Japanese
* Ryukyuan
* Korean
* Mongolian

South Asia|

* Bangladeshi
* Bengali
* Bhutanese
* Indian
* Bengali
* Gujarati
* Punjabi
* Sindhi
* Tamil
* Telugu
* Maldivian
* Nepalese
* Pakistani
* Balochi
* Pashtun
* Punjabi
* Sindhi
* Sri Lankan
* Tamil

Southeast Asia|

* Burmese
* Karen
* Cambodian
* Filipino
* Hmong–Mien
* Hmong
* Iu Mien
* Indonesian
* Laotian
* Malaysian
* Singaporean
* Thai
* Vietnamese

West Asia|

* Arab
* Bahraini
* Emirati
* Iraqi
* Jordanian
* Kuwaiti
* Lebanese
* Omani
* Palestinian
* Qatari
* Saudi
* Syrian
* Yemeni
* Assyrian
* Caucasians (Caucasus)
* Armenian
* Azerbaijani
* Chechen
* Circassian
* Georgian
* Cypriot
* Iranian
* Jewish
* Israeli
* Kurdish
* Turkish

Europe

| General/misc.|

* Jewish
* Romani
* Bashalde

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British Isles|

* British
* Cornish
* English
* Manx
* Scottish
* Welsh
* Irish
* Scotch-Irish

Central Europe|

* Austrian
* Czechoslovakian
* Czech
* Slovak
* German
* Frisian
* Sorbian
* Polish
* Kashubian
* Rusyn
* Silesian
* Swiss

Eastern Europe|

* Baltic
* Estonian
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Belarusian
* Moldovan
* Russian
* Chechen
* Cossack
* Kalmyk
* Ukrainian

Northern Europe|

* Danish
* Faroese
* Greenlandic
* Finnish
* Icelandic
* Norwegian
* Sami
* Swedish

Southern Europe|

* Italian
* Sicilian
* Maltese
* Portuguese
* Sammarinese
* Spanish
* Asturian
* Basque
* Canarian
* Catalan
* Galician

Southeast Europe|

* Albanian
* Bulgarian
* Greek
* Hungarian
* Romanian
* Yugoslav
* Bosnian
* Croatian
* Macedonian
* Montenegrin
* Serbian
* Slovenian

Western Europe|

* Belgian
* Flemish
* Dutch
* French
* Basque
* Breton
* Corsican
* Liechtensteiner
* Luxembourger

Oceania

* Australian
* New Zealander
* Maori
* Pacific Islander
* Chamorro
* Fijian
* French Polynesian
* Hawaiian
* Marshallese
* Micronesian
* Palauan
* Samoan
* Tongan

Multiethnic

* Afro-Asian
* Amerasian
* Black Indians
* Blaxican
* Cajuns
* Hapa
* Louisiana Creole people
* Melungeon
* Mulatto
* Punjabi Mexican Americans

Miscellaneous

* People of the United States / Americans
* American ancestry
* Native American ancestry
* Maps of American ancestries
* 2010 census
* Race and ethnicity in the census
* Race and ethnicity in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
* Racism

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