(MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) The Egyptian population reached 104.2 million, of which 94.7 million are living in the country and 9.4 million are abroad, said Abu Bakr Al-Gendy, the head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced during a conference in the attendance of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. During the conference, a report by CAPMAS was presented, in which methods used to come up with the 2017 census was explained. Regarding the distribution of citizens in governorates, the population of Cairo is the highest, accounting for 10.1% of the total population, followed by Giza (9.1%). The percentage of the working-age population (15 to 64 years) recorded the highest percentage of the total Egyptian population: 61.9%. In 2016, CAPMAS said the Egyptian population was 91 million, which moved up by one million since 2015.

Source: Daily News Egypt September 30, 2017 17:26 UTC