Said: bloating population lowers GDP per capita

CAIRO - 3 December 2018: Planning Minister Hala el Said cautioned that Egypt's bloating population growth would further aggravate the existing imbalance between population growth and resources.

In a press release on Monday, she expounded that the wider the gap between population growth and resources, the lower the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita.

She added that each ministry plays a key role to render successful the population growth control strategy which was launched by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to improve the people's standards of living.

She added that the booming population poses a threat to national security and social stability.