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Brazil vs Tanzania
How Brazil and Tanzania compare on 38 measures, from 1789 to 2025. The main differences:
- Life expectancy · In 2023, Brazil was higher: 75.9 years against 67 years
- GDP per person · In 2025, Brazil was higher: $9,748 against $1,153
- Population · In 2023, Brazil was higher: 211 million people against 66.6 million people
- Military spending · In 2025, Tanzania was higher: 1.16% of GDP against 1.05% of GDP
- CO₂ per person · In 2024, Brazil was higher: 2.32 tonnes against 0.31 tonnes
Every measure
Health
- Life expectancyBrazil: 75.9 years in 2023Tanzania: 67 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBrazil: 1.4 per 100 live births in 2024Tanzania: 3.7 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBrazil: 12.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023Tanzania: 28.9 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterBrazil: 87.3% in 2022Tanzania: 11.3% in 2022
- DepressionBrazil: 3.3% in 2017Tanzania: 3.69% in 2017
- Suicide rateBrazil: 6.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Tanzania: 8.8 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBrazil: 211 million people in 2023Tanzania: 66.6 million people in 2023
- Population growthBrazil: 0.41% a year in 2023Tanzania: 2.88% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBrazil: 1.62 births per woman in 2023Tanzania: 4.61 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBrazil: 88.2% in 2025Tanzania: 36.9% in 2025
- Median ageBrazil: 33.9 years in 2023Tanzania: 17.2 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBrazil: 10.6% in 2023Tanzania: 3% in 2023
- Net migration rateBrazil: -1.1 per 1,000 people in 2023Tanzania: -0.6 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBrazil: 1.05% of GDP in 2025Tanzania: 1.16% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsBrazil: $23.6B in 2025Tanzania: $983M in 2025
- Military spending per personBrazil: $113 in 2025Tanzania: $15 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingBrazil: 2.2% of government spending in 2025Tanzania: 5.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelBrazil: 762,000 people in 2020Tanzania: 28,000 people in 2020
- National powerBrazil: 2.01% of world capability in 2022Tanzania: 0.25% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBrazil: 0.76% of the labour force in 2020Tanzania: 0.1% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsBrazil: 462 million TIV in 2025Tanzania: 4 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Each country on its own
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
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