Prices in Tanzania 🇹🇿

In Tanzania, beer costs $0.74, mobile data costs $0.84 and healthy diet costs $0.92. That is 7 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in TZS, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Tanzania is one of the cheaper countries here in dollar terms, on low wages and a food supply that is mostly domestic, so the interesting reading is again the work-time column rather than the price one. It is also the only country in the table with two consumption-tax systems: VAT runs at 18% on the mainland and under a separate Zanzibar regime at 15% for most supplies, and basic agricultural products and food for human consumption are exempt from both. A single national electricity tariff hides very large differences in what it costs to actually reach a household.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	no data
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	no data
Cappuccino	no data
Milk (1 litre)	no data
Eggs (dozen)	no data
Apples (1 kg)	no data
Gasoline (1 litre)	no data
Diesel (1 litre)	$1.50	3,978 TZS	83 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$8.70	22,959 TZS	8.1 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)	no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$1.64	4,400 TZS	1.5 h
Beer (330ml)	$0.74	2,000 TZS	41 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$3.35	9,000 TZS	3.1 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.84	—	47 min
A day's healthy diet	$0.92	2,382.19 TZS	51 min

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage, the roughest number on this page. See methodology.

How Tanzania compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Tanzania is most expensive for mobile data, where it ranks 22nd out of 49 countries at $0.84, against a global median of $0.63.

It is relatively cheapest for healthy diet at $0.92, which is 49th of 49, only 0 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is electricity (100 kWh), at roughly 8.1 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Tanzania: 18% VAT on the mainland, 15% in Zanzibar. Ordinary groceries: basic agricultural products and food for human consumption exempt. Where these come from.

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Tanzania prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Tanzania?

Pricele publishes 7 everyday prices for Tanzania, each from a named source. Beer $0.74, Mobile data $0.84, Healthy diet $0.92. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.

What currency is used in Tanzania?

Tanzania uses the TZS. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.

What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Tanzania list?

Of the 7 items priced for Tanzania, the cheapest is Beer at $0.74 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $8.70. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Tanzania prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Tanzania.