page_title: Demographics of Egypt
section_title: CIA World Factbook demographic statistics
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of Egypt / CIA World Factbook demographic statistics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: A population pyramid illustrates the age and sex structure of a country's population and may provide insights about political and social stability, as well as economic development. The population is distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the left and females on the right. The male and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international migration trends.
context_page_description: Egypt is the most populous country in the entire Middle East and the third-most populous on the African continent. About 95% of the country's 100 million people live along the banks of the Nile and in the Nile Delta, which fans out north of Cairo; and along the Suez Canal. These regions are among the world's most densely populated, containing an average of over 1,540 per km², as compared to 96 persons per km² for the country as a whole.
  Small communities spread throughout the desert regions of Egypt are clustered around historic trade and transportation routes. The government has tried with mixed success to encourage migration to newly irrigated land reclaimed from the desert. However, the proportion of the population living in rural areas has continued to decrease as people move to the megacities in search of employment and a higher standard of living.
context_section_description: The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.
caption: Population pyramid in 2016. Many of those 30 and younger are educated citizens who are experiencing difficulty finding work.
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