Geographic Statistics:
Population: 68,359,979
Independence: 28 February 1922 (from UK)
Capital: Cairo (22,000,000, est.)
Shared Borders: Lybia, Sudan, Israel, Gaza Strip, Mediterranean
& Red Seas
Highest Elevation: Mount Catherine; 2,629 m
Lowest Elevation: Qattara Depression; -133 m
Environmental Statistics:
Climate: Desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
Terrain: Vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
Average Rainfall:
Temperature Extremes:
Population Statistics:
Main Languages: Arabic
Population growth rate: 1.72% (2000 est.)
Birth rate: 25.38 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Death rate: 7.83 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 63.33 years
male: 61.29 years
female: 65.47 years (2000 est.)
Total fertility rate: 3.15 children born/woman (2000 est.)
Literacy: (People age 15 and over that can read and write)
total population: 51.4%
male: 63.6%
female: 38.8%
Economic Statistics:
Currency: 1 Egyptian pound = 100 piasters
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $3,000 (1999 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.7% (1999)
Unemployment rate: 11.8% (1999 est.)
Telephones - main lines in use: 3.168 million (1996)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 380,000 (1999)
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