Egypt has successfully managed to decrease the birth rate in the past three years with a rate of about 62 percent, Egypt’s National Population Council (NPC) of the Health Ministry said in a release. Deputy Health Minister Tarek Tawfeek stated that the new birth rate mounted to 6.68 million in 2015, and it fell in 2016 to 2.6 million and reached its lowest in 2017 with only 2.55 million new births. He stressed that the state is on the right track to decrease the birth rate. He further went on to say that the population strategy aims to reach 112 million in Egypt by 2030 instead of 128 million. The governorates with the highest birth rate are Assiut, Souhag, Qena, Luxor, and Aswan. Tawfeek said that awareness campaigns for family planning programs will be held in these governorates. In October 2017, the Egyptian population hit 104.2 million; 94.98 million live within Egypt while 9.4 million live abroad, according to Egypt’s Statistics Body Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Egypt is deemed to be the most populous Arab nation, and this has had negative repercussions that include representing a direct economic…
Birth Rate in Egypt Falls By 62 Percent Over the Past Three Years: Health Ministry
February 27, 2018
