Population
Participants tackled the suggestions put forward during the public session and the previous specialists' session.
Two specialists' sessions were held Wednesday within the National Dialogue.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population said on Wednesday that the average number of births has reached 5,683 births per day, 237 births every hour, 4 births every minute, and one birth every 15 seconds.
In the past few years, the size of the Egyptian population spiked by 40 million, which represented a challenge to development.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi launched Tuesday the first edition of the Global Congress on Population, Health, and Development held in the New Administrative Capital on September 5-8.
Egypt is set to launch its National Population Strategy and the General Health Strategy on Tuesday during the World Conference on Population and Development that will be hosted in the country.
The population file is one of the important files that receives great attention, starting with the challenges and how to exploit human capital in the construction and development process of Egypt’s 2030 vision.
A marriage happens every 34 seconds, while a divorce occurs every two minutes.
The country is among eight states where large population growth is expected to occur.
Based on this data from the economic and social development plan document for the new fiscal year 2023/2024 presented by Minister of Planning Hala Al-Saeed, the Populationen of Egypt is expected to reach 108 million people by FY 23/24.
The center compared the figure to those of Paris and New Mexico, where they are 5,000 per square kilometer and 2,800 per square kilometer, respectively.
The parliamentary report indicates that the development plan aims to increase the percentage of beneficiaries from the health insurance system, and contain the inflation rate so that it declines to 16 percent in 2023/2024.
The population of Egypt inside Egypt reached about 104.4 million in January 2023, according to what was announced by the population watch of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, which is linked to the birth and death registration database at the Ministry of Health and Population.
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) reported Tuesday an increase of 14,019 in the Egyptian population.
That was during her participation at the ceremony held to launch a World Bank report on Egyptian demographics.
Egypt suffers from overpopulation.
The size of the Egyptian population hit 104,395,000.
Last year, the population had reached (102.812 million people) on January 1st, 2022, and thus a population increase (the difference between the number of births and deaths) of 1.583 million people has been achieved during the period from 1/1/2022 to 1/1/2023 days.
The population had recorded 104 million people domestically on the 1st of October of this year, the CAPMAS added.
The most three populous governorates are Cairo (10,190,429), Giza (9,440,810), and Sharqia (7,848,212).
