In the spirit of International Labor Day, a statement by Egypt’s national statistics agency Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) revealed that Egypt’s manpower reached approximately 28 million with a whooping 90.1 percent employment rate by the end of 2018. According to CAPMAS the unemployment rate as of the last quarter of 2018 is at 8.9 percent with 2.492 million people unemployed compared to 11.8 percent of the previous year. Around 21.3 percent of those unemployed are women while men make up about 6.8 percent. Interestingly, more people are employed in rural areas than urban cities where over 16 million people are employed provincial cities and almost 12.2 million in the cities. The reported also highlighted that “as far as economic activities are concerned the agricultural and fishing sectors got the highest rate of workers.” Manpower Minister Mohamed Saafan said in March that the “unemployment rate in Egypt went from 13.3 percent in the second quarter of 2014 to 8.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 due to the ongoing national mega projects.” The public sector has been making several efforts such as introducing in several mega…
