Egypt’s population has reached 106.75 million, according to the clock at the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. The count showed an increase of 750,000 people over the past ...

According to World Bank figures dating back to 1961, population growth in Egypt peaked at 2.8% in 1984-85 before declining to 1.9% in 2006 then surging again to 2.3% in 2014.

The Ministry of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation has launched a new digital platform to track ...

Egypt's faltering economy pushes authorities to become explicit about family planning, one of the most private matters in the traditional, Muslim country. As Egypt’s population hits the ...

Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East. A 2006 census put the population at 76.6 million, a 25 percent increase in a decade.

Or 91,034,024, to be precise. Egypt has long been the most populous nation in the Arab world, and is more than twice as large as the second biggest Arab state, Algeria, with around 40 million people.

Fertility rates have risen since 2008, to 3.5 children per woman, according to the United Nations, and the population is growing 1.8% annually — a rate that, in Egypt’s crowded cities and ...

Egypt’s Population Surge Risks ‘Catastrophe,’ President Says A street market in Attaba Square in Cairo, Egypt. Photographer: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images By Tarek El-Tablawy ...