Egypt’s population situation continues to rapidly increase, a pattern that has existed for years despite government efforts to battle overpopulation. Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) recorded a 750,000 spike in the country’s total population over the past 170 days, growing from approximately 103,000,000 to 103,750,000. STUDYING THE PATTERN, NOT THE NUMBER Egypt’s rapid population growth should come as no surprise in the context of previously recorded increases. The same uprise was recorded last year, reaching 750,000 from April 2021 to December 2021. In 2020, Egypt recorded an increase of one million in the span of eight months. Another one million was recorded in 2016, this time in six months. At an average growth rate of 2 percent per year, Egypt’s demographic trends project it to be the tenth largest country by 2100, at a predicted 225 million. Egypt’s Director of the Planning Ministry’s Demographic Center, Amira Tawadros, cuts that prediction by half, declaring that Egypt could reach 190 million by 2050. A QUIET CRISIS, GETTING LOUDER Egypt’s overpopulation acts as a looming dread amid ongoing economic struggles, as the government struggles to ensure resources to the…
A 750,000 Population Surge in 6 Months: What Does it Mean for Egypt?
August 29, 2022
