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Egypt

Headline economic indicators for Egypt, with the most recent official readings.

Prices

Prices — Egypt
Indicator Value Change
Inflation rate · 14.1% -14.20 (-50.2%)
Consumer price index · 711.6 +87.80 (+14.1%)
GDP deflator inflation · 25.0% -8.73 (-25.9%)

GDP

GDP — Egypt
Indicator Value Change
GDP growth rate · 4.4% +1.99 (+83.1%)
GDP per capita · 3,085.81 -252.67 (-7.6%)
GDP per capita, long-run history · 13,205 +337.14 (+2.6%)
GDP · 365,254,630,179.74 -23,805,280,413 (-6.1%)
GDP, PPP · 2,391,468,107,658 +163,038,112,848 (+7.3%)
GDP per capita, PPP · 20,204 +1,082 (+5.7%)
GDP per capita growth · 2.8% +2.14 (+334.6%)
GNI per capita · 3,260 -250.00 (-7.1%)
Agriculture to GDP · 16.6% +2.84 (+20.7%)
Industry to GDP · 32.1% -0.51 (-1.6%)
Manufacturing to GDP · 14.5% +0.61 (+4.4%)
Services to GDP · 47.3% -1.62 (-3.3%)
Household consumption to GDP · 93.4% +5.78 (+6.6%)
Gross capital formation to GDP · 12.9% -0.11 (-0.8%)
Gross savings to GDP · 8.1% -1.13 (-12.2%)

Labour

Labour — Egypt
Indicator Value Change
Unemployment rate · 6.8% -0.04 (-0.5%)
Labour force participation rate · 44.6% -0.03 (-0.1%)
Female labour force participation rate · 18.5% -0.01 (-0.1%)
Youth unemployment rate · 18.3% +1.00 (+5.8%)
Employment to population ratio · 41.5% -0.01 (-0.0%)
Employment in agriculture · 17.5% -0.45 (-2.5%)
Employment in industry · 29.4% +0.14 (+0.5%)
Employment in services · 53.1% +0.31 (+0.6%)

Money

Money — Egypt
Indicator Value Change
Real interest rate · -7.0% -1.39 (-24.6%)
Broad money to GDP · 77.3% -6.35 (-7.6%)
Private sector credit to GDP · 25.8% -1.73 (-6.3%)
Lending rate · 24.3% +6.53 (+36.8%)
Bank deposit rate · 19.2% +6.51 (+51.4%)
Stock market capitalization to GDP · 17.2% +6.27 (+57.2%)
Official exchange rate · 49.23 +3.93 (+8.7%)

Trade

Trade — Egypt
Indicator Value Change
Current account to GDP · -3.8% +1.87 (+32.9%)
Exports to GDP · 19.8% +3.44 (+21.0%)
Imports to GDP · 31.5% +8.29 (+35.7%)
Trade to GDP · 51.3% +11.73 (+29.6%)
Exports of goods and services · 72,393,571,621.62 +8,680,178,320 (+13.6%)
Imports of goods and services · 115,107,510,878.37 +24,750,253,514 (+27.4%)
Trade balance, goods and services (annual) · -38,621,700,000 -2,751,900,000 (-7.7%)
Current account balance (annual) · -13,936,203,796.4 +8,185,596,204 (+37.0%)
Foreign direct investment to GDP · 4.2% -7.74 (-64.7%)
Remittances received to GDP · 11.4% +3.77 (+49.6%)
Total reserves, including gold · 48,875,494,539.27 +3,954,153,521 (+8.8%)
Reserves in months of imports · 4.4 -0.18 (-4.0%)
External debt to GNI · 42.0% -2.44 (-5.5%)

Government

Government — Egypt
Indicator Value Change
Government debt to GDP · 85.8% unchanged
Government revenue to GDP · 21.0% +1.11 (+5.6%)
Government expense to GDP · 30.2% -2.69 (-8.2%)
Tax revenue to GDP · 12.5% +0.30 (+2.4%)
Government budget balance to GDP · -10.7% +0.30 (+2.7%)
Government consumption to GDP · 5.4% -0.82 (-13.2%)
Education spending to GDP · 3.8% +0.08 (+2.1%)
Health spending to GDP · 4.9% +0.16 (+3.4%)

Demography

Demography — Egypt
Indicator Value Change
Population · 118,365,995 +1,827,737 (+1.6%)
Population, long-run history · 110,593 +1,722 (+1.6%)
Population growth · 1.6% -0.18 (-10.2%)
Life expectancy · 71.8 +0.17 (+0.2%)
Fertility rate · 2.74 -0.02 (-0.5%)
Birth rate · 20.9 -0.09 (-0.4%)
Death rate · 5.5 +0.04 (+0.8%)
Urban population share · 42.9% +0.10 (+0.2%)
Population aged 65 and over · 5.3% +0.15 (+3.0%)
Under-five mortality rate · 22.4 -0.50 (-2.2%)
Population density · 117.1 +2.01 (+1.7%)
Net migration · -57,305 -181,189 (-146.3%)
Gini index · 28.5 -3.40 (-10.7%)

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

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