Because Egypt has so few mineral resources, its economy must depend on other sources of income. The largest sources of revenue are tourism, agriculture, service industries, and their supplies of oil and natural gas. Egypt is a developing country, and is having continious problems with its economy.
Service industries are very important to the economy.
Although agriculture accounts for only one one-sixth of Egypt's GDP, a third of the people work in it. There is agricultural work along almost all of the Nile, and approxiamately 90 percent of it is privately owned. The farms are located along the Nile because of its yearly flooding, which causes silt to be trapped along the banks, which is very fertile.