EGY · Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Egypt, Arab Rep.

118,365,995

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1.83M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+62.0%from 73.08M
Life expectancy71.8 years2024
Fertility rate2.73births per woman · 2024
Urban population42.9%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanLower middle income

A country at every age

How Egypt, Arab Rep. is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1431.6%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6463.2%Working-age population
Ages 65+5.3%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate20.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+15.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-57.31Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Egypt, Arab Rep. look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 161.63M in 2050—38.7% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024116.54M
  2. 2050161.63M
  3. 2100201.9M
Median age in 205031.0years
Births in 20502.58Mduring the year
Deaths in 20501.11Mduring the year
Life expectancy76.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196026.9M
  2. 197034.62M
  3. 198043.95M
  4. 199058.4M
  5. 200073.08M
  6. 201089.2M
  7. 2020109.32M
  8. 2025118.37M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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