Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s new Integrated Labour Force Survey (ILFS) 2024 has painted a picture of a labour market in transition, but also exposes two stubborn structural barriers that now pose the greatest threat to the country’s march toward Dira 2050: soaring informality and widening wage disparities across gender, geography and education.
Released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in November 2025, the survey, conducted throughout 2024 across Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar, offers the most robust, comparable and harmonised labour market data the country has produced in recent years.
