The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said Tuesday that the population of Egypt has reached 93.332 million, indicating that the population rose from 72.8 million in 2006 to 92.1 million at the beginning of 2017. The numbers show an 19.3 million increase since the latest census, 51% males, and 49% females respectively. CAPMAS said that world population was at 7.4 billion on July 15, 2016 (according to the Population Reference Bureau of Washington), of which 1.3 billion lived in the more developed countries, 6.2 billion lived in less developed countries, and 54% of the world’s population lived in urban areas. Therefore, the gap between the more developed countries and poor countries in health and population characteristics is widening. World Population Day, which marks July 11 each year, has been celebrated since 1987 when the world population reached 5 billion, with the aim of drawing attention to population issues, especially population growth, health, education and poverty reduction.

Source: Egypt Independent July 11, 2017 12:00 UTC