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Demographics of Egypt. 1.4% (2023est.) Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East, and the fourth-most populous on the African continent, after Nigeria, Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of the Congo. [ 1 ][ 2 ] About 95% [ 3 ] of the country's 104 million people (July 2023) [ 4 ] live along the banks of the Nile and in the Nile Delta ...
Population history of Egypt. Population growth in Egypt from 5000 BCE to 2023. Egypt has a long and involved demographic history. This is partly due to the territory's geographical location at the crossroads of several major cultural areas: North Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Egyptian literacy rate among the population aged 15 years and older by UNESCO Institute of Statistics. In 2022, Egypt's adult literacy rate was 74.5%, compared to 71.1% in 2017. [278] Literacy is lowest among those over 60 years of age, at 35.1%, and highest among youth between 15 and 24 years of age, at 92.2%. [279] Cairo University
The following is a list of countries in the Middle East sorted by projected population. Table. Rank Country (or dependent territory) 2020 ... Egypt: 113,210,388 [a ...
Demographics of the Arab world. The Arab world consists of 23’ states. [citation needed] As of 2021, the combined population of all the Arab states was around 475 million people. [citation needed] The most populous Arab state is Egypt, the North African nation with a population of 109 million residents. Comoros, the Indian Ocean nation is the ...
Approximately 84–90% of the population of Egypt are Muslim adherents and 10–15% are Christian adherents (10–15% Coptic Christian, 1% other Christian Sects (mainly Greek Orthodox)) according to estimates. [35] [36] Most of Egypt's people live along the banks of the Nile River, and more than two-fifths of the population lives in urban areas.
The demographics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region show a highly populated, culturally diverse region spanning three continents. As of 2022, the population was around 493 million. [1] The class, cultural, ethnic, governmental, linguistic and religious make-up of the region is highly variable.
Censuses in Egypt first appeared in the late Middle Kingdom and develops in the New Kingdom. [1] Pharaoh Amasis, according to Herodotus, required every Egyptian to declare annually to the nomarch, "whence he gained his living". [2] Under the Ptolemies and the Romans several censuses were conducted in Egypt by government officials.