Tanzania's exports of goods and services (annual % growth) was -5.02% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 6.37 percentage points from 1.35% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | -5.02% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -8.6% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 1.35% | 2015 |
| Highest | 36.35% | 1995 |
| Lowest | -11.98% | 1997 |
| Average since 2016 | 4.46% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | -10.52% | 1991 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Tanzania's exports of goods and services (annual % growth) fell 21.37 percentage points on 2024 (from 16.35% to -5.02%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.16 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 14.98 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.4 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 33.46 percentage points in 1992 and the biggest yearly fall was 35.3 percentage points in 1996. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 8% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Tanzania had the 121st highest value of the 128 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | -5.02% | 2025 |
| World | 4.88% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 4.59% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 7.59% | 2025 |
Closest to Tanzania in the 2025 ranking
- Brunei Darussalam — 117th of 128: -4.12%
- Montenegro — 118th of 128: -4.65%
- Belarus — 119th of 128: -4.7%
- Cameroon — 121st of 128: -7.68%
- West Bank and Gaza — 122nd of 128: -8.34%
- São Tomé and Principe — 123rd of 128: -12.18%
What this measures
Exports of goods includes changes in the economic ownership of goods from residents of the compiling economy to non-residents, irrespective of physical movement of goods across national borders. Exports of services includes services provided by residents to non-residents. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 35 values
| Year | Exports of goods and services (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -5.02 |
| 2024 | 16.35 |
| 2023 | 13.2 |
| 2022 | 10.2 |
| 2021 | 5.2 |
| 2020 | -8.6 |
| 2019 | 18.99 |
| 2018 | -5.81 |
| 2017 | 0.0701 |
| 2016 | -0.0041 |
| 2015 |
Exports of goods and services (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 1.51% (2024)
- Benin — -0.62% (2025)
- Botswana — 14.79% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 7.44% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 4.12% (2025)
- Cameroon — -7.68% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 38.8% (2025)
- Chad — 13.82% (2025)
- Comoros — 6.34% (2025)
- Congo, Dem. Rep.
More economic policy & debt data for Tanzania
- GDP (current US$) — US$90.14 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 229.06 trillion (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$78.82 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU) — 156.85 trillion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$1,319 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 3.35 million (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$1,153 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 2.29 million (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$88.07 billion (2025)
- GNI (current LCU) — 223.78 trillion (2025)
- GNI per capita (current LCU) — 3.27 million (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Tanzania's exports of goods and services (annual % growth)?
- -5.02% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1991?
- It is up 5.5 percentage points from -10.52% in 1991. The highest value was 36.35% in 1995 and the lowest -11.98% in 1997.
- How does Tanzania rank?
- 121st highest of 128 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in exports of goods and services (annual % growth) unusual for Tanzania?
- In 2025, Tanzania's exports of goods and services (annual % growth) fell 21.37 percentage points on 2024 (from 16.35% to -5.02%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.16 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 14.98 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.4 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.EXP.GNFS.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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