Country or area · Northern Africa · Africa · UN WPP 2024

Egypt population

Egypt population now

120,526,505

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 119.4–122.7 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 114,535,772

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 120.101 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 119.4–122.7 million
Median age: 25.7
Aged 65+: 5.4%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 20,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

EGY · 1950–2100 · in brief

Egypt in numbers

114,535,772 people lived in Egypt in mid-2023: 1.4% of the world's people, and the 14th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 5.4 times its 1950 population of 21.1 million.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 202 million. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 123 million to 346 million.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 20.5 in 1950 and 25.0 in 2023; the projection has 42.6 in 2100. 5.0% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 22.1% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2093 at 125 million.

By size it is the 14th country in 2023; the projection puts it 11th in 2050 and 11th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes the Philippines in 2024, Japan in 2027 and Russia in 2037. It is overtaken by the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2028 and Tanzania in 2071.

Population, mid-2023: 114,535,772
Rank by population, 2023: 14 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 1.4%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.70% · +1,917,522 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 115
Land area, 2023: 995,450 km²
Births, 2023: 2,405,717
Deaths, 2023: 625,449
Net migration, 2023: +305,006
Children per woman, 2023: 2.75
Median age, 2023: 25.0 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 71.6 years
In a city, 2025: 70 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 21,148,164
Projected, mid-2050: 161,630,192
Projected, mid-2100: 201,895,183

EGY · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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Show the numbers: Egypt, 1950–2100

Egypt: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	20,928,820		1,155,065	687,979	7.06	34.0
1951	estimate	21,367,508		1,178,131	671,289	7.07	35.3
1952	estimate	21,844,329		1,198,889	658,059	7.08	36.6
1953	estimate	22,365,560		1,219,494	647,265	7.09	37.9
1954	estimate	22,922,723		1,233,204	637,574	7.06	39.1
1955	estimate	23,502,397		1,242,885	628,401	7.01	40.1
1956	estimate	24,088,060		1,249,782	621,903	6.97	41.0
1957	estimate	24,686,626		1,255,690	611,806	6.92	42.0
1958	estimate	25,302,189		1,259,258	604,175	6.86	42.9
1959	estimate	25,898,453		1,265,653	596,826	6.83	43.7
1960	estimate	26,555,260		1,276,631	591,234	6.79	44.4
1961	estimate	27,237,698		1,290,453	587,249	6.76	45.1
1962	estimate	27,964,098		1,304,014	583,878	6.71	45.8
1963	estimate	28,709,927		1,320,647	581,859	6.65	46.5
1964	estimate	29,473,811		1,330,052	580,444	6.54	47.1
1965	estimate	30,244,032		1,331,877	579,192	6.39	47.6
1966	estimate	31,014,316		1,355,681	581,314	6.31	48.0
1967	estimate	31,798,767		1,378,205	589,303	6.25	48.1
1968	estimate	32,593,953		1,401,922	592,436	6.19	48.6
1969	estimate	33,402,684		1,427,121	602,554	6.12	48.7
1970	estimate	34,220,545		1,450,984	609,028	6.06	49.0
1971	estimate	35,027,434		1,480,628	612,254	5.99	49.5
1972	estimate	35,839,301		1,509,456	616,126	5.93	49.9
1973	estimate	36,677,355		1,528,235	623,163	5.84	50.1
1974	estimate	37,526,730		1,561,834	615,787	5.78	51.0
1975	estimate	38,412,604		1,601,900	614,081	5.75	51.7
1976	estimate	39,338,049		1,641,557	611,010	5.73	52.5
1977	estimate	40,253,065		1,670,308	604,982	5.68	53.3
1978	estimate	41,244,674		1,705,633	598,456	5.63	54.1
1979	estimate	42,278,188		1,736,760	591,126	5.57	54.9
1980	estimate	43,359,068		1,764,846	582,905	5.49	55.7
1981	estimate	44,541,758		1,780,598	573,798	5.37	56.5
1982	estimate	45,752,690		1,824,584	565,976	5.33	57.2
1983	estimate	47,062,532		1,878,444	559,938	5.31	58.0
1984	estimate	48,510,272		1,904,463	553,127	5.21	58.7
1985	estimate	49,984,397		1,934,528	545,798	5.12	59.4
1986	estimate	51,485,539		1,948,115	537,905	5.00	60.1
1987	estimate	52,927,051		1,966,052	529,964	4.91	60.7
1988	estimate	54,421,818		1,988,951	523,367	4.83	61.4
1989	estimate	55,953,545		1,977,605	516,059	4.68	62.0
1990	estimate	57,467,739		1,958,927	508,171	4.51	62.5
1991	estimate	59,325,497		1,942,972	502,019	4.32	63.1
1992	estimate	60,732,498		1,915,070	493,695	4.15	63.6
1993	estimate	62,228,823		1,894,252	484,861	3.99	64.2
1994	estimate	63,602,538		1,880,108	477,266	3.87	64.7
1995	estimate	64,968,640		1,876,326	469,444	3.76	65.2
1996	estimate	66,336,605		1,890,870	463,707	3.70	65.7
1997	estimate	67,719,491		1,930,803	460,710	3.68	66.2
1998	estimate	69,143,990		1,979,615	459,864	3.68	66.6
1999	estimate	70,742,598		1,994,974	460,290	3.60	67.0
2000	estimate	72,299,310		2,001,867	461,788	3.50	67.3
2001	estimate	73,867,258		2,034,454	465,473	3.46	67.6
2002	estimate	75,436,800		2,064,224	470,753	3.41	67.8
2003	estimate	77,041,474		2,091,590	477,303	3.35	68.0
2004	estimate	78,665,622		2,111,602	484,907	3.28	68.2
2005	estimate	80,289,265		2,154,522	493,917	3.25	68.4
2006	estimate	81,912,742		2,196,664	503,292	3.22	68.5
2007	estimate	83,488,064		2,262,766	513,416	3.24	68.6
2008	estimate	85,064,386		2,316,318	523,308	3.24	68.8
2009	estimate	86,665,193		2,380,803	532,739	3.26	68.9
2010	estimate	88,338,078		2,452,077	541,984	3.30	69.1
2011	estimate	90,054,067		2,502,876	551,062	3.31	69.2
2012	estimate	92,132,051		2,619,435	558,906	3.40	69.5
2013	estimate	94,189,952		2,725,683	568,792	3.49	69.6
2014	estimate	96,477,154		2,769,134	573,329	3.49	69.9
2015	estimate	98,580,154		2,807,083	579,417	3.50	70.1
2016	estimate	100,614,530		2,711,820	580,086	3.35	70.4
2017	estimate	102,674,648		2,706,428	583,607	3.31	70.7
2018	estimate	104,717,467		2,493,224	584,762	3.02	71.0
2019	estimate	106,646,720		2,394,940	589,119	2.87	71.2
2020	estimate	108,459,596		2,405,407	700,364	2.85	69.8
2021	estimate	110,170,651		2,347,231	780,677	2.75	69.0
2022	estimate	111,743,365		2,375,206	639,137	2.75	71.0
2023	estimate	113,493,134		2,405,717	625,449	2.75	71.6
2024	estimate	115,578,409		2,437,410	641,606	2.73	71.8
2025	projection	117,498,106	116.8–118.1 million	2,450,027	656,944	2.71	72.0
2026	projection	119,233,883	118.1–120.4 million	2,459,317	672,443	2.68	72.2
2027	projection	120,968,468	119.4–122.7 million	2,470,981	687,577	2.66	72.3
2028	projection	122,726,765	120.6–125.2 million	2,485,280	703,172	2.63	72.5
2029	projection	124,490,149	121.8–127.7 million	2,504,674	719,482	2.61	72.7
2030	projection	126,255,950	122.9–130.3 million	2,526,509	737,069	2.59	72.8
2031	projection	128,022,693	124.1–132.8 million	2,550,680	753,953	2.56	73.0
2032	projection	129,801,810	125.2–135.3 million	2,578,040	771,242	2.54	73.2
2033	projection	131,588,346	126.3–137.8 million	2,605,899	788,894	2.52	73.4
2034	projection	133,382,864	127.4–140.4 million	2,632,924	806,717	2.50	73.5
2035	projection	135,192,816	128.5–143.3 million	2,658,910	825,056	2.48	73.7
2036	projection	137,001,619	129.6–146.1 million	2,683,139	843,814	2.46	73.8
2037	projection	138,824,907	130.5–148.6 million	2,705,077	861,987	2.44	74.0
2038	projection	140,652,485	131.5–151.4 million	2,725,088	880,901	2.42	74.2
2039	projection	142,479,176	132.5–154.2 million	2,742,024	898,879	2.40	74.3
2040	projection	144,307,351	133.5–156.8 million	2,751,402	918,109	2.38	74.5
2041	projection	146,119,957	134.5–159.7 million	2,751,183	937,138	2.37	74.7
2042	projection	147,917,156	135.4–162.2 million	2,743,374	955,426	2.35	74.8
2043	projection	149,684,406	136.3–165.2 million	2,729,056	974,246	2.33	75.0
2044	projection	151,410,906	137.1–167.8 million	2,704,343	993,192	2.31	75.1
2045	projection	153,099,762	138.0–170.6 million	2,675,392	1,012,208	2.29	75.3
2046	projection	154,738,616	138.7–173.4 million	2,651,148	1,031,322	2.27	75.4
2047	projection	156,333,279	139.4–176.2 million	2,630,431	1,050,513	2.26	75.6
2048	projection	157,895,532	140.0–178.9 million	2,609,658	1,069,769	2.24	75.8
2049	projection	159,419,247	140.6–181.8 million	2,592,369	1,088,861	2.23	75.9
2050	projection	160,903,980	141.4–184.8 million	2,578,245	1,108,356	2.21	76.1
2051	projection	162,356,404	141.9–187.4 million	2,567,843	1,128,148	2.20	76.2
2052	projection	163,770,674	142.4–190.3 million	2,557,097	1,148,093	2.18	76.4
2053	projection	165,167,272	143.1–192.9 million	2,550,173	1,169,547	2.17	76.5
2054	projection	166,532,651	143.3–195.5 million	2,546,814	1,189,496	2.16	76.7
2055	projection	167,874,986	143.8–198.2 million	2,545,457	1,209,934	2.15	76.8
2056	projection	169,188,379	144.1–201.3 million	2,545,383	1,231,001	2.13	77.0
2057	projection	170,481,925	144.4–204.4 million	2,543,604	1,252,755	2.12	77.2
2058	projection	171,753,146	144.9–207.8 million	2,545,547	1,274,395	2.11	77.3
2059	projection	173,005,053	144.7–211.0 million	2,547,881	1,294,457	2.10	77.5
2060	projection	174,239,862	145.3–213.4 million	2,551,771	1,316,978	2.09	77.6
2061	projection	175,450,550	145.3–216.5 million	2,557,142	1,338,691	2.08	77.8
2062	projection	176,643,397	145.4–219.9 million	2,558,991	1,360,183	2.07	77.9
2063	projection	177,816,540	145.5–223.1 million	2,557,467	1,381,872	2.06	78.1
2064	projection	178,980,714	145.5–226.1 million	2,558,671	1,403,541	2.05	78.3
2065	projection	180,125,010	145.5–229.3 million	2,557,457	1,424,295	2.04	78.4
2066	projection	181,229,900	145.5–232.5 million	2,558,786	1,445,893	2.03	78.6
2067	projection	182,321,297	145.3–235.8 million	2,556,252	1,465,690	2.03	78.7
2068	projection	183,389,089	145.0–238.7 million	2,550,756	1,484,801	2.02	78.9
2069	projection	184,433,896	144.7–241.9 million	2,542,874	1,505,356	2.01	79.0
2070	projection	185,448,413	144.5–245.5 million	2,534,523	1,525,234	2.00	79.2
2071	projection	186,432,968	144.1–249.1 million	2,525,029	1,544,812	2.00	79.3
2072	projection	187,391,751	144.1–252.8 million	2,514,119	1,563,448	1.99	79.5
2073	projection	188,322,649	143.8–256.3 million	2,501,438	1,581,121	1.99	79.7
2074	projection	189,215,477	143.6–260.3 million	2,484,895	1,599,229	1.98	79.8
2075	projection	190,083,114	143.5–263.4 million	2,467,609	1,617,522	1.97	80.0
2076	projection	190,922,332	142.8–266.6 million	2,453,144	1,636,072	1.97	80.1
2077	projection	191,732,305	142.4–270.0 million	2,436,178	1,652,094	1.96	80.2
2078	projection	192,504,910	141.7–273.3 million	2,420,513	1,667,694	1.95	80.4
2079	projection	193,245,814	141.0–276.3 million	2,405,551	1,683,883	1.95	80.5
2080	projection	193,959,599	140.1–279.1 million	2,388,130	1,701,458	1.94	80.7
2081	projection	194,626,202	139.9–282.3 million	2,374,943	1,717,303	1.93	80.8
2082	projection	195,269,427	139.5–285.0 million	2,361,569	1,734,574	1.92	81.0
2083	projection	195,875,272	138.9–287.5 million	2,350,285	1,752,239	1.92	81.1
2084	projection	196,453,452	138.2–291.0 million	2,340,577	1,771,356	1.91	81.3
2085	projection	197,001,886	137.6–293.9 million	2,331,446	1,791,154	1.91	81.4
2086	projection	197,515,851	136.9–297.5 million	2,322,566	1,810,360	1.90	81.5
2087	projection	198,006,051	135.9–300.6 million	2,316,453	1,830,141	1.90	81.7
2088	projection	198,474,899	135.2–305.3 million	2,306,356	1,849,850	1.89	81.8
2089	projection	198,909,122	134.3–310.8 million	2,300,067	1,868,764	1.89	82.0
2090	projection	199,311,519	133.5–314.4 million	2,292,302	1,887,354	1.89	82.1
2091	projection	199,688,861	132.3–318.0 million	2,286,535	1,909,074	1.88	82.3
2092	projection	200,047,707	131.3–320.8 million	2,280,042	1,929,082	1.88	82.4
2093	projection	200,376,179	130.2–324.4 million	2,271,850	1,950,195	1.87	82.5
2094	projection	200,683,463	128.8–328.1 million	2,261,664	1,970,699	1.87	82.7
2095	projection	200,956,925	128.1–330.9 million	2,249,941	1,991,361	1.86	82.8
2096	projection	201,199,097	127.5–333.7 million	2,240,693	2,011,708	1.86	82.9
2097	projection	201,402,214	126.5–337.2 million	2,230,267	2,029,806	1.85	83.1
2098	projection	201,573,686	125.4–339.8 million	2,221,252	2,046,980	1.85	83.2
2099	projection	201,728,069	124.3–342.4 million	2,209,967	2,065,013	1.84	83.3
2100	projection	201,846,600	123.4–345.7 million	2,197,540	2,081,343	1.84	83.5

Show the numbers: Egypt, mid-2026, by single year of age

Egypt: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	1,244,840	1,182,070
1	1,236,110	1,174,220
2	1,224,390	1,163,470
3	1,207,740	1,148,240
4	1,191,380	1,133,180
5	1,197,210	1,139,380
6	1,207,010	1,149,490
7	1,226,510	1,169,120
8	1,301,570	1,242,050
9	1,353,560	1,292,990
10	1,376,260	1,315,520
11	1,388,280	1,327,010
12	1,366,590	1,306,210
13	1,328,050	1,269,160
14	1,271,980	1,214,050
15	1,229,230	1,171,460
16	1,196,390	1,138,930
17	1,159,170	1,104,160
18	1,125,240	1,074,590
19	1,090,980	1,045,080
20	1,059,930	1,018,970
21	1,035,380	998,614
22	1,017,640	982,895
23	1,005,660	969,382
24	992,223	952,548
25	976,641	934,764
26	964,923	922,760
27	956,180	914,637
28	936,371	896,122
29	910,034	870,846
30	891,894	852,377
31	883,236	843,632
32	880,668	840,934
33	881,267	842,488
34	883,517	847,714
35	884,746	852,680
36	883,423	855,458
37	879,913	855,450
38	866,768	846,320
39	846,562	830,506
40	829,630	815,388
41	812,271	796,166
42	792,079	774,238
43	765,547	748,103
44	734,883	718,012
45	712,461	695,391
46	693,289	675,965
47	671,094	653,524
48	648,222	629,800
49	625,887	607,240
50	602,920	585,010
51	578,559	561,683
52	555,972	540,218
53	537,716	523,158
54	520,460	507,514
55	501,192	490,661
56	482,545	475,220
57	464,128	460,775
58	444,996	446,278
59	425,643	431,824
60	405,682	416,770
61	387,929	404,020
62	371,100	392,375
63	351,004	377,292
64	329,588	360,576
65	308,042	343,538
66	286,404	326,181
67	265,532	309,162
68	245,579	292,540
69	225,997	275,684
70	206,558	258,255
71	187,435	240,308
72	168,382	221,603
73	149,160	201,814
74	130,477	181,676
75	112,930	161,934
76	98,508	142,421
77	86,834	127,248
78	75,088	115,501
79	62,352	100,578
80	49,846	83,272
81	39,090	67,238
82	30,383	53,784
83	23,550	42,946
84	18,254	34,346
85	14,149	27,512
86	10,958	22,041
87	8,471	17,627
88	6,452	13,878
89	4,748	10,548
90	3,362	7,703
91	2,338	5,515
92	1,592	3,854
93	1,034	2,566
94	642	1,630
95	382	995
96	222	589
97	126	338
98	69	188
99	37	101
100+	34	105

EGY · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Egypt, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

EGY · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Egypt

On the UN's projection, Egypt will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2093: 124,517,000 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 71,693,900.

100 aged 15–64

52 children

8 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

EGY · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Egypt, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Egypt gains 84,623 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 17,166 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 2,000 people a year

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more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 406,994 (1990) and the most it lost was 194,100 (2010).

In 2024, 1,139,820 people living in Egypt had been born in another country, 1 of every 100 people there, against fewer than 1 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

EGY · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Egypt

Of every 100 babies born in Egypt in 2023, 9 had a mother under 20, 79 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 12 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 18 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
18 · 66 · 16

2023
9 · 79 · 12

2050 · projected
7 · 77 · 16

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 2,405,717
Average age when women have a baby: 28.0 years; 28.6 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 42; 180 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Egypt by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	17,269	15,132	4,291	3,843	3,775	1,095
15–19	188,123	247,054	216,281	213,669	164,818	66,168
20–24	295,780	474,554	648,194	679,930	561,034	318,640
25–29	270,055	419,101	574,799	755,791	893,531	771,691
30–34	201,048	240,213	343,777	455,873	544,582	595,886
35–39	117,991	137,269	163,360	216,256	268,983	295,026
40–44	53,442	56,677	44,908	69,840	116,528	126,043
45–49	10,850	11,364	5,940	9,942	23,745	22,342
50–54	507	536	317	573	1,249	649
All babies	1,155,065	1,601,900	2,001,867	2,405,717	2,578,245	2,197,540

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

EGY · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Egypt

In Egypt, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 60.4 (95% range 59.6–61.1), out of 69.1 in all. That leaves 8.7 years in less than full health, fewer than the world's 9.5, which mostly means lives are shorter here, with fewer years in which to be ill.

Women

61.1 in full health, 10.6 not: 71.7 years

Men

59.7 in full health, 7.0 not: 66.7 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 61.1 healthy years of 71.7. Men: 59.7 of 66.7. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 62.5.

EGY · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Egypt

At the end of 2025, Egypt was hosting 1,098,301 people who had crossed a border into it, about 9 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad1,098,301
Egypt nationals abroad70,055

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 20,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Egypt living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 292,007 people asked for asylum in Egypt for the first time; 26,985 people from Egypt asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Egypt whose claims were decided that year, 7 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

EGY · of every 100 people

How people live in Egypt

Of every 100 people in Egypt in 2025, 70 lived in a city, 27 in a town or suburb and 3 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 25.4 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

EGY · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Egypt went in school

Of every 100 adults in Egypt in 2020, 30 never went to school and 55 finished upper secondary or went further.

30 never went to school 9 some primary 3 finished primary 3 finished lower secondary 33 finished upper secondary 22 studied after school

Compare two generations. Aged 60–64, 61.8 of every 100 women and 37.8 of every 100 men never went to school; aged 25–29, 18.1 and 9.5.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2075; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2080.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

EGY · cities · 2025

Cities in Egypt

Egypt had 219 cities in 2025, home to 83.1 million people. The largest, Cairo, holds 22 of every 100 people in Egypt.

Cairo25,566,102
Alexandria7,266,957
Luxor4,188,023
Banha2,088,520
El Mansura1,712,781
Al Zaqaziq1,416,734
Asyut1,406,963
El Mahalla El Kubra1,156,501
Suhaj1,123,349
Tanta1,018,577

All 75 cities in Egypt that reach 300,000 people

Cairo 25,566,102
Alexandria 7,266,957
Luxor 4,188,023
Banha 2,088,520
El Mansura 1,712,781
Al Zaqaziq 1,416,734
Asyut 1,406,963
El Mahalla El Kubra 1,156,501
Suhaj 1,123,349
Tanta 1,018,577
Port Said 849,767
Faiyum 846,831
Mit Ghamr 812,947
Damietta 743,111
Beni Suef 684,414
Al Ismailiya 612,046
Shibin Al-Kom 605,913
Damanhur 579,215
Suez 567,866
Al Minya 561,945
Dairut 501,258
Aswan 493,753
Tahta 482,194
Faqous 470,110
Al Abbasa al Sharqiya 457,678
Maragha 440,011
Samadon 428,126
Kafr Al Sheikh 415,494
Sanhur 412,618
Minya Al-Qamh 402,716
Mallawi 401,471
Mit Habib 397,104
Birimbal al Quadima 389,333
Al Roda 387,432
Al-Asafra 379,559
Al-Manshah 370,283
Dusuq 366,123
Balyana 354,769
Kafr Al-Zaiyat 354,037
Bilbeis 353,541
Sidfa 336,659
Garawan 335,801
Shiblanga 328,820
Abu Tig 328,639
Girga 327,081
Samalut 313,324
Girza 312,801
Sers Al Layyan 303,302
Al-Santa 302,572
Al-Mahmudiya 297,143
Nag Hammadi 288,576
Abu Kabir 274,073
Tima 264,280
Rosetta 252,147
Diyarb Nigm 250,476
Qus 247,941
Qena 243,801
El Senbellawein 243,779
Sinnuris 235,984
Hihya 227,360
Maghagha 226,358
Al Qusiya 225,243
Manfalut 224,667
Dinjway 217,913
Beni Mazar 207,194
Qift 191,964
Al-Wasitah 181,776
Beni Muhammadiyat 180,286
Kawm Ombo 162,984
Kafr Saqr 156,498
Abu Huminus 142,823
Amrit 142,164
Delingat 125,765
Kafr Ibrash 118,945
Mutubis 80,283

How to read this: the 10 biggest cities here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Egypt are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.