Cairo is the fastest growing city by population

CAIRO – 28 February 2017: Cairo’s population is expected to grow by half a million in 2017, making it the fastest growing metropolitan city in the world by population, according to Euromonitor International’s Global Economies and Consumers in 2017

report

(EIGEC).

Cairo's population reached 9,440,374 in the latest population estimates from Jan. 1, 2016, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics' (CAPMAS)

Statistical Yearbook

.

According to EIGEC report, Alexandria will grow by more than 100,000 people this year.
Amal Nur al-Din, chairman of population statistics at CAPMAS, told

Aswat Masriya

the Egyptian population grows by two million every year.