In the 2021 Global Innovation Index (GII), Tanzania was ranked one of the top 5 innovative economies in Africa alongside countries like Mauritania, South Africa, Kenya, and Cabo Verde.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 2021 GII, was done against the backdrop of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic and its peculiar challenges. Measuring the most innovative economies in the world, using innovative performance of about 132 economies.