Due to the state's interest in private sector participation, the door was opened before the latter to contribute to the confrontation of the population problem. A clinic in collaboration with the Red Crescent Society was set up at Al Nahda Complex in Al Salam City. Improvement Indications in Population And Family Planning Domain Egypt 's population in 1995 was estimated at 58,978 million. The number of Egyptians living abroad was estimated at 2,67 million. Thus, the total population number including those abroad is estimated at 61,648 million.
Statistics indicate a kind of stability in birth rates within the last three years.
Great achievements were made in family planning domain, which is reflected in an obvious increase in the use rates of family planning devices. This was followed by a decrease in birth mortality and natural increase rates. Improvement indications verify the success of family planning activities in Egypt on the national and local levels. An examination of Egypt's demographic map will, from the first moment, realize its uniqueness as regards to the population distribution. Save Egypt, no other country has this concentrated population density in a narrow strip of land along the Nile and its Delta, while it strikingly lessens the further we move from this valley.