Egypt’s Population: Boom or Bust?

Source: Brookings

Author(s): Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2018/05/22/egypts-population-boom-then-bust/

Egypt’s worrying population boom fails to generate the same headline attention as terrorist attacks, the impact of economic reforms on the poor, the country’s hyper-constrained politics, or accusations of human rights violations. Yet, the very real dangers it poses were highlighted when the head of the country’s statistical agency, Abu Bakr el-Gendy, called this seemingly irrepressible tide a “catastrophe.” To Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, it is a “challenge as critical as terrorism.”

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