Egypt 
Facts
Population:
69,536,644 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
34.59% (male 12,313,585; female 11,739,072)
15-64 years:
61.6% (male 21,614,284; female 21,217,978)
65 years and over:
3.81% (male 1,160,967; female 1,490,758) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.69% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
24.89 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
7.7 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.24 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.78 male(s)/female
total population:
1.02 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
60.46 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
63.69 years
male:
61.62 years
female:
65.85 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
3.07 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.02% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Nationality:
noun:
Egyptian(s)
adjective:
Egyptian
Ethnic groups:
Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek, Nubian, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1%
Religions:
Muslim (mostly Sunni) 94%, Coptic Christian and other 6%
Languages:
Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
51.4%
male:
63.6%
female:
38.8% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $247 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $3,600 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
17%
industry:
32%
services:
51% (1999)
Population below poverty line:
22.9% (FY95/96 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
4.4%
highest 10%:
25% (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3% (2000)
Labor force:
19.9 million (2000 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 29%, services 49%, industry 22% (FY99)
Unemployment rate:
11.5% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$22.6 billion
expenditures:
$26.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY99)
Industries:
textiles, food processing, tourism, chemicals, hydrocarbons, construction, cement, metals
Industrial production growth rate:
2.1% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
64.685 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
76.59%
hydro:
23.41%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
60.157 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruits, vegetables; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats
Exports:
$7.3 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
crude oil and petroleum products, cotton, textiles, metal products, chemicals
Exports - partners:
EU 35%, Middle East 17%, Afro-Asian countries 14%, US 12% (1999)
Imports:
$17 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, wood products, fuels
Imports - partners:
EU 36%, US 14%, Afro-Asian countries 14%, Middle East 6% (1999)
Debt - external:
$31 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
ODA, $2.25 billion (1999)
Currency:
Egyptian pound (EGP)
Currency code:
EGP
Exchange rates:
Egyptian pounds per US dollar - market rate - 3.8400 (January 2001), 3.6900 (2000), 3.4050 (1999), 3.3880 (1998), 3.3880 (1997), 3.3880 (1996)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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(Sate-owned literary weekly), Cairo
http://www.akhbarelyom.org.eg/adab
Akhbar al-Yom
(Government-owned weekly), Cairo
(Government-owned weekly), Cairo
http://www.akhbarelyom.org.eg/akhersaa/issues...
Al-Ahali
(Left-wing weekly), Cairo
(Semi-official), Cairo
http://www.ahram.org.eg
(Semi-official), Cairo
http://www.ahram.org.eg/arabi
Al-Ahram al-Iqtissadi
(Government-owned business weekly), Cairo
Egypt in the News
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'The United States may have won the war against Saddam Hussein, but it has opened up a Pandora’s box that will spawn more problems than the ones it has set out to solve,' Ayman El-Amir writes for Cairo's Al-Ahram Weekly.
The ordeals that Egyptian human-rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim and his colleagues endured have become symbolic of Egyptian civil society’s wider struggle against a regime that is increasingly intolerant of criticism.
Abdalla Hassan reports that the war in Iraq has sparked increasingly intense demonstrations on the streets of Cairo.
World Press Review correspondent Peter C. Valenti examines Arab press commentary on the deepening rifts within the Arab world as the Iraq crisis escalates.
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