Egypt Today “According to the latest study, 254 babies are born every hour, which means at least 4 children are born every minute”, Khaled Maher, an Egyptian official at the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS), said on Tuesday “18.2% of women are breadwinners. More than the half …
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Egypt Independent “The population of Egypt has reached 102,526,000, an increase of 26,000 during the past two days”, the advisor to the head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS), Hussein Abdel-Aziz, told MBC Masr on Tuesday. “The average marriage age in rural areas is 20 years, …
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Menna Alaa el-Din – Ahram Online Egyptian Health ministry announced “the launch of a family planning initiative nationwide starting in May”, a statement the ministry said. The statement comes weeks after the government said it is prioritising population growth combat after the country’s population hit 100 million. Health ministry …
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Mira Maged – Egypt Independent The Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced on Tuesday 11 February that the country’s population has officially hit 100 million, excluding expatriates. Prime minister Mostafa Madbouly stated on Friday, that the government will launch a new program limiting population growth …
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Egyptianstreets There is a possibility that the Egyptian population may exceed 130 million by 2030, which will pose significant challenge to the state’s sustainable development goals, according to a statement by Planning Minister Hala El Said yesterday. “The issue of population growth is one of the most important challenges that …
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Aleksandar Bodiroza* What is the key to the well being of an entire population? To answer this question, we need to travel 25 years back, when the global community gathered to discuss a response to the rapid population growth at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in …
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Egypt Today Rapporteur of the National Population Council Amr Hassan told Egypt Today that Egypt is among the top countries in terms of population growth expected to take place between 2018 and 2050. Egypt ranks seventh with an estimated increase of 69.5 million followed by the United States with …
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Egypt Independent Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali stated on Sunday that rising birth rates increased Egypt’s population growth rate to 2.65 percent in 2018, which would negatively impact development outcomes. In a meeting with members of the central committee for the ‘Atenien Kefaya’ (Only Two Kids) campaign, Wali …
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What does science and technology have in store for humanity over the next 50 years, asks Samir Sobhi Samir Sobhi Political geography, or geopolitics, the environment and population growth are the main factors, which will define the nature of the Earth within the coming 50 years. Political geography is a give …
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An Egyptian parliamentary committee said measures should be taken to combat early marriage as a way to curb population growth. Gamal Essam El-Din reports. Gamal Essam El-Din – Ahram Online In a meeting held on Sunday, the Egyptian parliament’s defence and national security committee recommended that strict measures be …
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