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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…