A picture shows a general view of Al-Atba district of the Egyptian capital Cairo. AFP
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said 55.7 percent of households, or 15 million families, live in rural areas, while 44.3 percent, or 11.9 million, live in urban areas.
Egypt, a country of 109 million, recorded 936,739 marriage contracts in 2024, a rate of 8.8 per thousand inhabitants, while divorces reached 273,892, or 2.6 per thousand inhabitants, the data showed.
Children under 15 account for 30.6 percent of the population, while young adults aged 15-29 make up 25.6 percent.
Working-age adults between 30 and 64 represent 37.7 percent of the population, and those aged 65 and over account for 6.1 percent, according to CAPAMS.
Some 25.3 million students are enrolled in pre-university education in the 2024/2025 academic year, including 13.4 million in primary school, 6.5 million in preparatory school, and 4.5 million in secondary education.
A further 4 million students are enrolled in higher education institutions, of whom women make up just under half.
The female unemployment rate fell to 15.3 percent in 2025 from 17.1 percent the previous year, while male unemployment also declined to 3.7 percent from 4.2 percent.
The urban unemployment rate edged up slightly to 9.8 percent from 9.6 percent, while the rural rate fell to 3.5 percent from 4.2 percent.
The government said it has invested heavily in recent years to improve living standards for Egyptian families, increasing public spending on subsidies, grants and social benefits to EGP 742.6 billion ($14.9 billion) in the 2025/2026 fiscal year budget, up 16.8 percent from the previous year.
Food subsidy allocations rose 19.3 percent to EGP 160, including EGP 116 billion for bread subsidies. Social security assistance, including the Takaful and Karama cash transfer program, received EGP 54 billion, supporting 5.2 million families.
The government also allocated EGP 13.6 billion for social housing, up 14.3 percent year on year.
Health spending reached approximately EGP 618 billion in the current fiscal year, an increase of around EGP 122 billion from the previous year, while education allocations totalled EGP 684.7 billion for pre-university schooling and EGP 358.2 billion for higher education.
The data was released to mark International Family Day, observed annually on May 15 under a theme set by the United Nations. This year's theme is "Families, Inequality, and Child Well-being."
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