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Egypt's Population
Home » Egypt » Egypt - The People and the Culture » Egypt's PopulationEgypt has a particularly high population rate, a count in 2004 came to about 76 million people, this is a very strong figure and with massive economical growth this country has experienced over the years, it can handle the continually growing number that reside through the entire country.
The figure is 62.2% of residents are aged 15 – 64 and the remaining sum is either over or under this but only a small number of people over 64 do actually live in the area.
In 2001, it was reported that within the area, the birth rate per thousand people was 27.4% compared to 38.6% in 1986 and with a death rate figure of 6.2% per thousand in 2001, considering the size of Egypt the death figure is quite low.
Since 1960 the life expectancy of a man or woman living in the area has risen each decade that has passed and in 2001 it has risen quite sharply and it is a figure that does continue to rise. For men, the average life expectancy is 67.1 and for women is 71.5.
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