Egypt’s population hit 104.395 million on 1st of January 2023: CAPMAS

Egypt’s Population has reached on Sunday 104.395 million people inside the country, according to what was announced by the population clock of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), which is linked to the birth and death registration database at the Ministry of Health and Population.

Last year, the population had reached (102.812 million people) on January 1st, 2022, and thus a population increase (the difference between the number of births and deaths) of 1.583 million people has been achieved during the period from 1/1/2022 to 1/1/2023 days.

The rate of natural increase for the year 2022 was about 1.6%, as the number of natural increase for this year increased by about 9.7% compared to 2021, due to the significant decrease in the level of deaths during the year 2022, which reached about 19.1% as a result of the receding of the impact of the Corona pandemic (Covid-19).

The slight increase in the number of births during the year 2022 compared to the year 2021, is evident from the development of the numbers of natural increase during the period (2018-2022).

The number of births during the year 2022

The number of births reached (2.183 million) during the year 2022, according to the preliminary data registered in the births and deaths database at the Ministry of Health and Population, which is only about two thousand births less than the previous year 2021 (2,185 births), and the average number of births reached (5982) births per day, i.e. (249) births per hour, i.e. (4.15) births per minute, which means one birth every (14.4 seconds).

Number of births during the period from 1/1/2022 to 1/1/2023:

The number of births registered during the year 2022 is 2.183 million

Average number of daily births

The average number of births every hour is 249 births

The average number of births every minute is 4.15 births

A baby is born every 14.4 seconds

Source: Egypt Today Magazine