According to historical data, in a country like Egypt, the population began to take shape about twelve thousand years ago.Then on its territory in search of fertile land come the tribes of North and East Africa.They later added the representatives of other regions of the continent.Thus, in the valley of the Nile at the same time he lived several tribes.Eventually, after a series of bloody wars, skirmishes and enslavement, formed the indigenous population of Egypt.Originally it consisted of a few hundred thousand people, and in the heyday of the country reached the level of a few million.
At the beginning of the twentieth century in the Nile Valley is home to over forty million people.Moreover, every year this number was added nearly one million.The population of Egypt (2013), according to official figures, is 83.66 million.This is the highest number in the history of the country.Now, the state ranks 16th in the world in such indicators as the rate of population growth.According to scientists, if the situation does not change, as of 2050 the number of people in the country will exceed 120 million people.
It should be noted that national territory populated unevenly.People mostly live in the five percent it is about one million square kilometers.The average population density is 76 people per 1 km2.At the same time in the Suez Canal and the Nile Delta, the figure rises to 1,500 inhabitants per 1 km2.The most sparsely populated in the country are the shores of the bay of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, mining town in the eastern and the western desert oasis.
Egypt, whose population is 90 percent of the Arabs of East-Asiatic group, is a Muslim country (94% of the faithful inhabitants).The remaining 6% are Christians.Ethnic minorities are Bedouins, Nubians and other nomadic peoples who live mainly in the southern part of the state.More than half of the residents are farmers.An interesting fact is that in a country like Egypt, one third of the population consists of children under the age of fifteen.
In the capital, Cairo, is home to more than twenty million people.In all major cities you can find a large number of Europeans.Despite the relatively poor natural conditions in Egypt is quite high indicators such as average life expectancy of 73 and 68 years for women and men respectively.Most of the Egyptians because of the low standard of living of the peasants are illiterate.The reason for such a situation can be called and that have actually been running a six-year compulsory education system.The fact that children work mainly in the fields as adults during harvest and planting.
Due to lack of arable land each year, millions of rural people are moving to the big cities.In addition, many Egyptians went to work in the neighboring wealthy countries involved in oil production.
state government believes that Egypt, whose population is growing, will develop better if the pace of growth will be reduced.That is why the country has a lot of effort for birth control.In particular, it is now being actively promoted the idea that every family should be no more than two children.
