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Egypt

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Egypt is a country. The capital city is Cairo, located in the Northern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 995,450 km², a population of 114,535,772 people and uses the currency Egyptian pound. The President is Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Key facts

currency: Egyptian pound
capital city: Cairo
region: Northern Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 995,450 km²
population: 114,535,772 people
political leader: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (President)

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central government debt: 85.79 % of GDP
expense: 30.23 % of GDP
GDP: 396,002,496,996.96 current US$
inflation: 33.88 annual %
self-employed workers: 26.09 % of total employment
tax revenue: 12.52 % of GDP
unemployment: 7.33 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 23.30 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 836,000 people
democracy score: 3.36
democracy type: Authoritarian
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 3,200 people
individuals using the Internet: 72.70 % of population
military expenditure: 0.87 % of GDP
net migration: 305,006 people
press freedom: 1.38
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 27.53 %
birth rate: 22.11 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.39 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 179.68 current US$
health expenditure: 4.61 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.05 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.13 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 70
suicide mortality rate: 3.00 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 40,310.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 1.50 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 249.33 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 70.73 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 7.38 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 21.01 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.88 % of total
net energy imports: -7.39 % of energy use
fertility rate: 2.88 births per woman
forest area: 449 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 97.93 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 335.97 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 20.00
methane emissions: 51.45 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 19.30 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 56,705,185 people
male population: 57,830,587 people
renewable energy consumption: 6.10 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 971,206.20 km²
rural population: 65,170,854 people
urban land area: 18,917.96 km²
urban population: 49,364,918 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 13.75 % of total population

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