Tanzania

Population (World Bank): 61,498,438 (2021)

Metal/Ore Exports (% of Total Merchandise Exports, World Bank): 4.0% (2021)

Petroleum Production (Million barrels per day, EIA): 0 Mb/d (2021)

Human Development Index (World Rank, UNDP): 163

2021 Resource Governance Index Score, Mining Sector (NRGI): 58/100

2021 Resource Governance Index Score, Oil and Gas Sector (NRGI): 55/100

EITI Status: Meaningful Progress

Link to key economic information (Atlas of Economic Complexity)

Policy documents that include local content relevant provisions:

• The Mining (Local Content) (Amendments) Regulations, 2022

• The Petroleum (Natural Gas Midstream And Downstream) General Regulations, 2020

• The Mining (Local Content) (Amendments) Regulations, 2019

• Mining Act (Amendments), 2018

• Natural Wealth and Resources (Permanent Sovereignty) Act, 2017

• Petroleum (Local Content) Regulations, 2017

• Mining (Minimum Shareholding and Public Offering) Regulations, 2016

• Tanzania Extractive Industries (Transparency and Accountability) Act, 2015

• Petroleum Act, 2015

• Non-Citizens (Employment Regulation) Act, 2015

• National Natural Gas Policy, 2013

• Mining Act, 2010

• Mineral Policy, 2009

• The Tanzania Investment Act, 1997

Local Content Relevant News:

• June 2025 - EACOP LTD and WASCO ISOAF award 124 new scholarships to Tanzanian youth in major local content milestone

• May 2025 - Tanzania says $42 billion LNG deal delayed on local content use

• October 2022 – Suppliers want action over local content policy breach

• July 2022 – Mining Local Content Regulations Amended

• March 2022 – Local Content Scales Up in Oil, Gas Sector

• September 2021 – Member of the Association of Tanzania Oil and Gas Service Providers (ATOGS), GF Trucks, partners with the Geita Mining Association to produce trucks for Tanzanian use (Swahili)

• August 2021 – Barrick Keen to Implement Local Content Regulations

• May 2021 – Tanzania Starts Refining Gold to International Standards

• March 2019 – Tanzania Relaxes Protectionist Regulations in Mining Sector

• November 2018 – Tanzania Partners with DRC to Process Cobalt

• September 2018 – Acacia to Relocate Core Functions to Tanzania in 2019

• February 2018 – Tanzania Lays Down the Law on Local Participation in Mining Sector

• February 2018 – Tanzania’s New Mining Law Will Compel Foreign Companies to Boost Local Financial Firms

• April 2017 – Acacia Mining Stated it Lost $60 Million Due to the Recent and Sudden Ban on Raw Gold Ore Exports (Paywall)

Analysis and Case Studies:

• Chuwa and Mrema (2022) – Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities of Local Content Policy, Legal, and Institutional Framework in the Upstream Natural Gas Sector in Tanzania

• Jesse Salah Ovadia (2022) – Addressing gender inequality through employment and procurement: Local content in Tanzania's emerging gas industry (Paywall)

• Racheal Chagonja (2019) – Extractive Resources-Industrialization Linkages: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons for Tanzania

• Foubert and Merket (2019) – Dissecting the Social License to Operate: Local Community Perceptions of Industrial Mining in Northwest Tanzania

• Andrews and Nwapi (2017) – A “New” Developmental State in Africa? Evaluating Recent State Interventions vis-à-vis Resource Extraction in Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda

• Shepherd and Honwana Welch (2017) – Developing Businesses of Scale in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia

• Kinyondo and Villanger (2017) – Local Content Requirements in the Petroleum Sector in Tanzania: A Thorny Road from Inception to Implementation? (Paywall)

• Calignano and Vaaland (2017) – Supplier Development in Tanzania; Experiences, Expectations and Motivation (Paywall)

• Lemayon L. Melyoki (2017) – The Governance of the Petroleum Sector in Tanzania: Institutional Arrangements and the Role of the National Oil Company (Paywall)

• Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (2016) – Local Content: Tanzania - Petroleum

• Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (2016) – Local Content: Tanzania - Mining

• Kinyondo and Lange (2016) – Resource Nationalism and Local Content in Tanzania: Experiences From Mining and Consequences for the Petroleum Sector (Paywall)

• Kinyondo and Lange (2016) – Local Content in the Tanzanian Mining Sector

• Wineaster Anderson (2016) – Local Suppliers in Tanzania: Ready for the Petroleum Sector?

• Clyde&Co (2013) – Tanzania’s 4th Offshore Licensing Round: A Regulatory Recap

• Mjimba (2011) – The Nature and Determinants of Linkages in Emerging Minerals Commodity Sectors: A Case Study of Gold Mining in Tanzania

• Perkins and Robbins (2011) – The contribution to local enterprise development of infrastructure for commodity extraction projects: Tanzania’s central corridor and Mozambique’s Zambezi Valley

Relevant Initiatives:

• National Economic Empowerment Council (NEEC)

• GIZ Employment and Skills for Eastern Africa

  • Progress Report: November 2020

• Extractive Sector Knowledge Transfer Incubator (ESKi)

• Draft Local Content Policy for Oil and Gas Industry, 2014

• Draft National Petroleum Policy, 2014