Population
Since President Hosni Mubarak took office in 1981, the population has nearly doubled. But most of the country's 82 million people are squashed in urban areas near the Nile, in an area roughly the size of Switzerland, which is home to 7.5 million.Around 38 percent of Egyptians are younger than 15 women make up only around 22 percent of the labor force population growth has remained high, at around 2 percent, for the past decade and the fertility rate, about 3.1 children per woman - compared with 2.1 in the United States - has also been stable. Since the population is large it has to use more and more of the governments resources causing the government to have to order more and more resources Egypt doesn't have a large water supply because of where it is located at in the world Egypt's population still grows each year by approximately 1.5 million the average Egyptian woman would give birth to 3.4 children in her lifetime The share of reproductive-age women (15-49) was 23.1 percent of the total population of Egypt in 1986 and increased to 25.7 percent in 1996. This number is expected to rise to 26.5 percent of the total by 2025. This large proportion of women in the reproductive ages means that the number of annual births is likely to increase, to 1.8 million, by 2010 the total population would reach 113 million in 2036.
Below is a picture of the population in the past, and what researchers are expecting in the future.
Below is a picture of the population in the past, and what researchers are expecting in the future.