These are the five poorest regions in Tanzania

The Tanzanian government has argued that Kigoma, Geita, Kagera, Mwanza and Singida are the five poorest regions in the country, either Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Arusha, and Manyara and Pwani are the five regions with the recovery from poverty

Minister of Finance and Planning Dr. Phillip Mipango said that yesterday when presenting the status of the economy in 2015 and the national development plan for the fiscal year 2016/17.

Minister said the program evaluation of the state of regional poverty vinyl using census data of people in 2012 to study the situation of the household income and expenditure in the year 2012, shows positive results and uneven regional and district

The Minister said the program directs the Kigoma region to be poverty-stricken of 48.9% followed by Geita (43.7%), Kagera (39.3%), Singida (38.2%) and Mwanza (35.3%).