The Socio-Cultural Environment in Egypt
43% of the population will live in urban areas by 2022, and the rate of urbanization will increase by 1.9% annually between 2020 and 2025.
Regions and Languages
- Languages spoken in Egypt are Arabic which is a official language, English, and French
- In Egypt, there are only two main religions: Islam and Christianity. 90% of the population is Muslim (mostly Sunni), and 10% is Christian (mostly Coptic Orthodox; other Christian denominations include Armenian Apostolic, Maronite, Orthodox, and Anglican).
- There are just 2 ethnic groups in Egypt; in 2006, Egyptians made up 99.7% of the population and others made up 0.3%.
Population
- Egypt 2023 population is estimated at 112,716,598 people at mid year. Egypt population is equivalent to 1.4% of the total world population.
- Birth Rate: 21.46 births/1,000, ranked 63 globally (2022).
- Death Rate: 4.32 deaths/1,000 population, ranked 208 globally (2022).
- Net migration rate: 0.31 migrants/1,000 population, ranked 120 globally (2022).
- Infant Mortality Rate: 17.7 deaths per 1,000 births (2022)- ranked 93 globally
- Life Expectancy at birth: 74.45 years (2022).
- Egypt’s age dependency ratio is 64.23%, placing it 54 internationally and 41st in Africa in 2021 (below the average of 76.19%).
- 5.43% of the population is 65 years of age and above, which ranks 109 internationally and 7th highest in Africa (above the average of 3.79%) in 2021.
- Egypt has the lowest maternal mortality rate in Africa and ranks 102nd internationally in 2017 with 37 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared to a global average of 155 fatalities.
- The happiness index for Egypt is 4.29/10, making it the 26th happiest country in Africa and 124th globally(2021).
- Egypt’s Human Development Index (HDI) score is 0.731, down 0.003 from 2020, placing it 97/191 overall and just below the global average of 0.732. (2021). Egypt has a High Human Development Classification HDI score.
- 43% of the population will live in urban areas by 2022, and the rate of urbanization will increase by 1.9% annually between 2020 and 2025.
Negative impacts of the Socio-Culture in Egypt
- Less than 0.1% of Egyptian adults have AIDS, about 24,000 persons (2020), making Egypt the 80th most AIDS-affected country in the world. with only 3 homicides per 100,000 persons in 2012, the crime rate is incredibly low.
- Smoking and drinking regulations are strictly upheld.
- Hospitals are overcrowded and understaffed, with 0.75 doctors per 1,000 people (as of 2019) and 1.4 beds per 1,000 people, which is a significant problem for healthcare (2017).
- Egypt has 18.61 points, ranking third-lowest globally and second-lowest in Africa for healthcare price index (2017)
- Egypt has the eighth-lowest rate of infant mortality in Africa, the 77th-highest global rate (as of 2020), and fewer infant deaths than the average of 26 countries worldwide.
