Dungumaro, Esther W.2016-05-032016-05-032012Dungumaro, E. W., 2012. Social Protection in Tanzania. In Social Protection Schemes in Africa, Trywell Kalusopa, T., Dicks, R., and Osei­Boateng, C. (Eds).http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/1788Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa. According to the latest census conducted in 2002, the population was 34 million. Projections based on the annual population growth rate of 2.9 percent indicate that the country's population by 2009 would stand at 43 million people. Tanzania got its independence in 1961 (as Tanganyika) and united with Zanzibar in 1964 to form TanzaniaenBook chapter