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Planning Minister, UNFPA delegation discuss continued cooperation in Egypt
Egyptian government aims to build integrated database of family planning services

Egypt’s population to reach 132.3 million by 2030 if growth stabilises at 2.56%: Planning Minister
Egypt needs to achieve annual GDP growth of more than 8% to enhance current living standards, says former ECES Executive Director

Egypt’s population control plan is based on women’s economic empowerment: Planning Minister
Population control is of utmost importance for Egypt, according to Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala El-Said.

MSMEs make up 80% of African economy, employ 70% of total population: COMESA
Venkatasamy’s remarks came during the Financial Services Regulators Sub-regional Stakeholder Meeting that discussed solutions to increase intra-trade and financial flows for MSMEs in Africa.

Unjustified population growth exhausts development efforts: Shaarawy
The minister added that the increase in population levels will also prevent citizens from breaking out of the cycle of poverty, and improving their economic and social levels.

Egypt likely to see birth drop following COVID-19 pandemic
On Sunday, Ministry of Health reports 1,218 new coronavirus cases, and 63 fatalities

Egypt’s population hits 100 million mark
Egypt is currently the largest Arab country in population, the third in Africa, and the 14th globally.

World’s population to reach 7.75 billion by 2019 end
International NGO expects that the world will have 8 billion people by 2023

Egypt needs more private capital – and that’s everyone’s responsibility
As developed market interest rates stall or fall and the inflation-adjusted returns on most sovereign debt drops to negative territory once again – the global search for yield by institutional investors is as urgent as it has ever been. This, as much as anything, is driving the huge flow of institutional capital into private investments.

Egypt, eight countries to form more than half of world’s population increase in 2050:UN
Expert recommends government to raise awareness, empower women

Egypt’s explosive population growth outpaces rate of job creation: ILO
For past 30 years, economy has not grown fast enough, says report

Time bomb: Egypt’s growing population reaches 98 million
Experts warn growth rates will hinder economic stability, 2030 goals

69.5 million increase in Egypt’s population by 2050: PRB
Problem dividing resources to population to distribute incomes, resources more equitably

MPs draft family planning bill to limit population growth
Health affairs committee prepared law to establish General Authority for Medicine

Egypt strikes against population growth to save economic progress
Al-Sisi previously marked issue as one challenge threatening country’s development

96.3 million is total of Egypt’s population at beginning of 2018: CAPMAS
The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) revealed on Wednesday on the occasion of World Population Day, which is held on 11 July annually, that the number of Egypt`s population increased to reach 96.3 million at the beginning of 2018. The CAPMAS revealed that the population number increased from 72.8 million in 2006 …

Egypt has approximately 1 million new citizens to house every 8 months: report
The cost-of-living index in Dubai is approximately 186.15% higher than in Cairo, says OLX

Egypt studying law to confront population growth issues
Population growth is a challenge not less than that of terrorism, says Al-Sisi

PM reviews procedures of population, housing censuses for 2017
PM Sherif Ismail visited the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics’ (CAPMAS) headquarters to follow up on the progress of the general census of population, housing, and facilities for 2017. During the visit, Ismail inspected the operations room of CAPMAS and was briefed on the progress of data collection and the early stages of …

Cairo’s population expected to grow by 0.5m in 2017: Euromonitor International
The fastest growing cities in terms of population will be in the Middle East and Africa

Egypt must achieve 7% growth rate to keep up with population growth: Meit
Increase of petroleum prices, liberalisation of exchange rate, and increase of supply goods allocations are responsible for the deficit increase

Congratulations, we have 2 million newborn Egyptians every year
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) has announced that the population of Egyptians inside Egypt reached 92 million on Thursday at 8:00pm. CAPMAS stressed on 5 June that the population reached 91 million, which means that the recent increase has taken place in less than six months. It is worth mentioning that …

91 million people in Egypt as of Sunday: CAPMAS
Egypt’s population has increased by 1 million people over the past six months

Egypt’s population to reach 98 million next week: CAPMAS
Cairo is the most crowded governorate, with 9.437 million people

Jobs for refugees: Easier said than done

Minister of Population holds urgent meeting on child kidnappings
Youssef instructs cooperation with social media to help counter increasing issue

Egypt’s family planning programmes have 200% return rate: Study
Economic research estimates government can save EGP 43m using family planning

Egypt can return to era of good population policies: UNFPA Representative
A “doomsday scenario” is possible but not inevitable with long term thinking from the government and families

Population growth rate in Egypt 4 times that of developed countries
Between government’s role and people’s social beliefs, the rates continue to rapidly increase

‘Mounting evidence’ of ‘war crimes’ in Gaza conflict: Amnesty
Gaza death toll soars over 1,650 as more bodies are pulled from rubble in the south, while the death toll in Israel reaches 66