Editing Tanzania (section)

===Hunger and poverty===
The Global Hunger Index previously ranked the situation as "alarming" with a score of 42 in the year 2000; since then the GHI has declined to 23.2.<ref name="globalhungerindex.org">{{cite web |title=Tanzania |url=https://www.globalhungerindex.org/tanzania.html |access-date=6 August 2024 |website=Global Hunger Index – Official Website of the Peer-Reviewed Publication}}</ref> Children in rural areas suffer substantially higher rates of malnutrition and chronic hunger, although urban-rural disparities have narrowed as regards both stunting and underweight.<ref name="Tanzania UNDP">{{cite web|url=https://www.tz.undp.org/content/tanzania/en/home/about-us.html|title=About us |website=UNDP |access-date=25 May 2020|archive-date=11 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811174628/https://www.tz.undp.org/content/tanzania/en/home/about-us.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Low rural sector productivity arises mainly from inadequate infrastructure investment; limited access to farm inputs, extension services and credit; limited technology as well as trade and marketing support; and heavy dependence on rain-fed agriculture and natural resources.<ref name="Tanzania UNDP"/>

Approximately 68 percent of Tanzania's 61.1&nbsp;million citizens live below the poverty line of $1.25 a day. 32 percent of the population are malnourished.<ref name="globalhungerindex.org"/> The most prominent challenges Tanzania faces in poverty reduction are unsustainable harvesting of [[Natural resources use in Tanzania|its natural resources]], unchecked cultivation, climate change and water source encroachment, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).<ref name="Tanzania">{{cite web|url=https://www.heifer.org/about-us/where-we-work/tanzania.html|title=Tanzania|website=Heifer International}}</ref>

There are very few resources for Tanzanians in terms of credit services, infrastructure or availability to improved agricultural technologies, which further exacerbates hunger and poverty in the country according to the UNDP.<ref name="Tanzania"/> Tanzania ranks 159 out of 187 countries in poverty according to the United Nation's Human Development Index (2014).<ref name="Tanzania"/>

The 2019 [[World Bank]] report showed that in the last 10 years, poverty has reduced by 8 percentage points, from 34.4% in 2007 to 26.4% in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/tanzania/publication/tanzanias-path-to-poverty-reduction-and-pro-poor-growth|title=Tanzania's Path to Poverty Reduction and Pro-Poor Growth |publisher=World Bank |date=1 December 2019}}</ref> A further report showed a reduction to 25.7% in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ippmedia.com/en/news/tanzania-60-gdp-sharp-rise-poverty-cut|title=Tanzania at 60: GDP in sharp rise, poverty cut |work=IPP Media |date=November 12, 2021}}</ref>