Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced on Sunday that the number of births decreased by 1.6 percent in 2017. The number of births fell to 2.55 million in 2017, compared to 2.6 million in 2016, CAPMAS wrote in the annual Bulletin of Birth and Death Statistics 2017. The sex ratio at birth was 105 males per 100 females in 2017, the same proportion as 2016. The number of male births was 1.3 million in 2017 compared to 1.32 million in 2016, a decrease of 1.5%. CAPMAS noted that Cairo governorate ranked first in the number of births, with 239,112 in 2017.

Source: Egypt Independent August 26, 2018 11:14 UTC