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Between its natural wealth with diverse cultures, increasingly rapid urbanization, and some of the world’s most impressive wildlife, Tanzania strikes visitors as a country of diversity and dynamism. At the same time, the country is facing challenges from climate change that will put its people, policymakers, and ecosystems to a test. Migration has long been a strategy of Tanzanians to deal with adverse climatic conditions, but as this report illustrates, climate change will put further pressure on people to leave their homes and look for new opportunities elsewhere within the country’s borders. This study shows that Tanzania could see as many as 16.6 million internal climate migrants by 2050. Immediate, rapid and aggressive action on the cutting down emissions as a global community, and pursuing inclusive resilient development at the national level could bring down this scale of climate migration, on average, by about 27 percent.
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In 2020, over 30 million people were displaced due to extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, and storms.
“In 2020 alone, over 30 million people were displaced due to extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, and storms (Rigaud et al., 2021).”
From Climate change and migration dynamics in Somalia: a time series analysis of environmental displacement (2025) · cites this paper as Rigaud et al., 2021
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Black, R., Bennett, S. R. G., Thomas, S. M., & Beddington, J. R. (2011) · Nature · doi:10.1038/478477a · Cited by 1,043 · see citing works
Bilateral international migration flow estimates for 200 countries
Abel, G. J., & Cohen, J. E. (2019) · Scientific Data · doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0089-3 · Cited by 129 · see citing works
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Mohamed, A. A., Omar, I. M., Yusuf Ibey, A. M., & Omar, M. M. (2025) · Frontiers in Climate · doi:10.3389/fclim.2024.1529420 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
- Authors
- Rigaud, K. K., de Sherbinin, A., Jones, B., Arora, A., & Adamo, S.
- Venue
- World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
- Publisher
- World Bank, Washington, DC
- Published
- 2021-10-18
- OpenAlex
- W3212807131
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 1.83
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks (publishedVersion)
- The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- Keywords
- climate change, Tanzania, internal displacement, climate resilience, emission reduction, inclusive development, urbanization, migration
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