CAIRO - 14 July 2025: Major General Khairat Barakat, head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) revealed that Egypt’s population is expected to reach 108 million on August 18, 2025.
He explained that “every 15 milliseconds, a child is born in Egypt, and Upper Egypt governorates have high population densities.”
In a statement during the World Population Day celebrations, Barakat added that a survey of Egyptian families will be conducted in the coming period.
CAPMAS head explained that work is underway to produce a sound statistical product. He stated that the population currently exceeds 107 million and 850 thousand people.
Egypt’s minster of Health Khaled Abdel Ghaffar emphasized that Egypt's unprecedented progress in the total fertility rate exceeded expectations, with a decline to 2.41 in 2024, compared to 2.85 in 2021.
He noted that the urgent plan aims to accelerate the goal of reducing the fertility rate to 2.1 by 2027, instead of 2030.
Abdel Ghaffar explained that the results achieved in the population file are based on significant effort and work, with the participation of various entities. He noted that the population file and human development are ‘two sides of one coin’, as each impacts the other.
Mon, Jul. 14, 2025
