CAIRO (Reuters) - Population growth in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country, slowed to 1.4% in 2023, its lowest rate in decades, the planning ministry said on Thursday. The need to limit ...

Egypt has experienced rapid population growth in recent decades. Between 1986 to 2018, the number of people in the country ...

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2017 file photo, girls play on a rooftop in Boulaq El Dakrour district of Giza, Egypt. On Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, the official statistics agency announced Egypt’s fast-growing ...

The Senate – Egypt’s consultative upper house of parliament – decided on Sunday to refer a report on the problem of the country’s overpopulation to President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi. The Senate’s ...

Egypt’s rate of population growth is four times that of China, according to the Advisor to the Minister of Health for Population Affairs in Egypt, Amr Hassan. In televised statements, he discussed the ...

Hosni Mubarak is a dictator who has to go — that’s obviously the animating force behind the protests in Egypt. And more power to the protesters! But Egypt’s problems run much deeper than its ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Sitting in her sister's apartment on a noisy Cairo street, Rania Sayed one day hopes to leave a city that is becoming more congested as Egypt's population ticks up to 100 million, a ...