Official: Egypt will have 90 million residents by next week
Ninety million people will be living in Egypt by December 6, the head of Egypt’s state statistics agency announced.
In a statement on Monday to the state-owned Middle East News Agency, CAPMAS head Abu Bakr al-Gendy said the total number of Egyptians is projected to reach 98,960,843 by next week. Of those, roughly eight million live overseas.
Cairo governorate is the most populous, with more than 9.4 million inhabitants. Giza is the second, with 7.8 residents, and Sharqiya third with 6.6 million. Parts of both Giza and Sharqiya are also within the greater Cairo metropolitan area.
Alexandria governorate was the eighth most populous, with around 5.1 million inhabitants. South Sinai is the least populated governorate, with just 175,406 residents.
Egypt’s population has more than doubled since 1981, when World Bank figures put it at 44.5 million.
Population growth slowed in the 1990s and early 2000s, but has accelerated since the 2011 revolution. In the years from 2006 to 2010, the World Bank put Egypt’s annual rate of population growth between 1.7 and 2 percent. From 2011 to 2014, it ranged between 2.1 and 2.3 percent.
The growing population is putting a strain on Egypt’s infrastructure and natural resources. Water is a particular source of concern, since Egypt’s annual water supply is fixed, while its population is expanding. Between 1970 and 2014, water resources per capita dropped by 60 percent, pushing the country into water poverty.
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