On 1 August Egypt marked National Population Day. The Ministry of Health and Population held an event sponsored by Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, Minister of High Education and Acting Minister of Health, that featured participation of all authorities concerned with population issues in Egypt.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar announced the latest population figures: Egypt’s birth rate, he said, has been reduced from 30.2 / 1000 in 2015 to 21.2 / 1000 in 2021.
According to Deputy Health Minister Tarek Tawfik, the Egyptian government has adopted policies and programmes with the aim of supporting the economic empowerment of women, leading to a reduction in the unemployment among women from 24.2 per cent in 2015 to 16 per cent in 2021. The unemployment rate in general was reduced from 13 per cent in 2014 to 7.4 per cent in 2021.
Watani International
2 August 2022
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