Tanzania
7.6 points below what its income predicts · expected 27.4% at its GDP per capita
Tanzania ranks 34 of 37 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: 19.8% of its task time is at least partly delegable, below the world figure of 35.2% and 28.9 points below high-income countries.
| Indicator | Tanzania | Rank in region | Highest in region | Region | High income | World | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delegability | |||||||
| ADI: task time at least partly delegable (L2–L3) | 19.8 | 34 of 37 | Mauritius (43.7) | 25.4 | 48.7 | 35.2 | ADI v2026.1 |
| ADI3: task time fully delegable (L3) | 0.9 | 31 of 37 | Mauritius (3.7) | 1.4 | 3.7 | 2.5 | ADI v2026.1 |
| ADIs: expected share of working time delegable | 20.2 | 35 of 37 | Mauritius (34.4) | 23.7 | 37.4 | 29.5 | ADI v2026.1 |
| Adoption | |||||||
| AI use per working-age adult (index) | 0.06 | 19 of 19 | Mauritius (1.61) | 0.31 | 2.80 | 1.53 | Anthropic Economic Index |
| Context | |||||||
| GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $) | 3,821 | 18 of 37 | Seychelles (30,639) | 6,686 | 56,341 | 27,620 | World Bank WDI |
| Informal employment, % of total employment | 91.4 | 18 of 34 | Seychelles (8.9) | 84.1 | 12.5 | 50.2 | ILOSTAT |
Region: the 37 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa in the atlas (World Bank regions). Delegability rows are employment-weighted means; adoption and context rows are simple means over countries with data. For informality, rank 1 is the lowest. With equal weights inside reported groups, the preregistered sensitivity check, Tanzania’s ADI is 22.4%.
Tanzania against the delegation divide
Each flag is a country; the dashed line is what GDP per capita alone predicts. Sub-Saharan Africa keeps its colours, the rest is grey. Tanzania is 7.6 points below what its income predicts.
Balam Labs · Agent Delegability Index v2026.1 · balamlabs.org/adi
Who works in Tanzania, and how delegable their tasks are
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers and service and sales workers supply 70% of Tanzania’s delegable task time while employing 71% of its workers.
Hover a block to read one group. Shade: the group’s ADI, light 10% to dark 85%.
| Major group | Employment, Tanzania | World | ADI of group, Tanzania | Points of ADI, Tanzania |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Managers | 0.3% | 3.9% | 75.3 | 0.2 |
| 4 · Clerical support workers | 0.4% | 5.0% | 86.6 | 0.3 |
| 2 · Professionals | 1.4% | 11.2% | 63.8 | 0.9 |
| 3 · Technicians and associate professionals | 1.6% | 6.7% | 69.1 | 1.1 |
| 5 · Service and sales workers | 14.9% | 17.8% | 20.7 | 3.1 |
| 8 · Plant and machine operators and assemblers | 3.9% | 7.6% | 26.0 | 1.0 |
| 6 · Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers | 56.3% | 21.9% | 19.3 | 10.9 |
| 7 · Craft and related trades workers | 6.9% | 10.8% | 20.3 | 1.4 |
| 9 · Elementary occupations | 14.3% | 15.2% | 6.3 | 0.9 |
Barriers, weighted by its jobs
The largest gap with the world is physical presence: 87% of task weight against 72% worldwide, a heavier brake on agents.
| Barrier | Share of task weight | TZA | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical presence | 87% | 72% | |
| Accountability | 25% | 26% | |
| Trust and care | 25% | 26% | |
| Access to systems | 56% | 59% |
Dashed tick: world, weighting the same tasks by world employment. A task can carry more than one barrier.
Delegable work and actual AI use
With 0.06× the world’s Claude use per working-age person, Tanzania uses AI more than its delegable work alone would suggest (gap -0.91 standard deviations).
Balam Labs · Agent Delegability Index v2026.1 · balamlabs.org/adi
Within its region
Tanzania sits between Lesotho (20.5%) and Madagascar (19.7%); Mauritius leads the region at 43.7% and Burundi closes it at 14.7%.
| Country | ADI | % |
|---|---|---|
| Mauritius | 43.7 | |
| Seychelles | 43.6 | |
| Namibia | 39.5 | |
| Somalia | 39.2 | |
| Cameroon | 38.3 | |
| Gabon | 34.8 | |
| Cabo Verde | 34.3 | |
| Eswatini | 33.9 | |
| The Gambia | 33.2 | |
| Malawi | 32.5 | |
| Botswana | 32.0 | |
| Equatorial Guinea | 30.8 | |
| Ghana | 30.3 | |
| Togo | 30.0 | |
| Nigeria | 29.6 | |
| Kenya | 29.6 | |
| Guinea | 28.8 | |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 28.4 | |
| Benin | 28.1 | |
| Sudan | 27.9 | |
| Angola | 27.4 | |
| Burkina Faso | 25.5 | |
| DR Congo | 24.3 | |
| Chad | 24.2 | |
| Niger | 23.5 | |
| Mali | 23.3 | |
| Zambia | 22.8 | |
| Zimbabwe | 22.2 | |
| Guinea-Bissau | 22.0 | |
| Rwanda | 21.8 | |
| Uganda | 21.4 | |
| Ethiopia | 20.6 | |
| Lesotho | 20.5 | |
| Tanzania | 19.8 | |
| Madagascar | 19.7 | |
| Mozambique | 17.9 | |
| Burundi | 14.7 |
Dashed line: regional employment-weighted mean, 25.4%. World: 35.2%.
Espinal Maya, Cristian, and Santiago Jiménez Londoño. 2026. ADI v2026.1: Agent Delegability Index data, code and MCP server. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23552918. Record: Tanzania (TZA), https://balamlabs.org/adi/countries/TZA
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author = {Espinal Maya, Cristian and Jim{\'e}nez Londo{\~n}o, Santiago},
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