File Photo: Egyptian citizens walk on a main street during a traffic jam in central Cairo. AFP
According to CAPMAS, the time required for Egypt’s population to increase by one million people fell to 267 days, compared with 287 days for the previous one million increase.
CAPMAS also reported that the average number of daily births during the latest one-million increase rose to 5,439, up from 5,165 during the previous period.
Meanwhile, the average daily number of deaths increased slightly to 1,694 deaths, compared with 1,681 previously.
Despite the rise in daily births, the birth rate declined from 1.85 percent in 2024 to 1.81 percent in 2025, where the fertility rate also fell from 2.85 children per woman in 2021 to 2.34 children per woman in 2025.
Among governorates, Assiut recorded the highest birth rates, while Port Said registered the lowest.
With 109 million people inside the country and around 10 million Egyptians living abroad, Egypt ranks 13th globally in population, accounting for nearly 1.45 percent of the world’s total population. It is also the most populous country in the Arab world and the third-largest in Africa, after Nigeria and Ethiopia, according to the Worldometer website.
The government has expanded family planning programmes and invested in new cities and infrastructure to ease the strain that rapid population growth places on housing, healthcare, education and employment.
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