In 2023, the share of urban population in Egypt remained nearly unchanged at around 43.1 percent. Still, the share reached its highest value in the observed period in 2023. The urban population refers to the share of the total population living in urban centers. Each country has their own definition of what constitutes an urban center (based on population size, area, or space between dwellings, among others), therefore international comparisons may be inconsistent.Find more key insights for the share of urban population in countries like Algeria and Libya.

Urban population (% of total population) in Egypt was reported at 43.26 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Egypt - Urban population (% of total) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Egypt urban population for 2023 was 49,364,918, a 2.02% increase from 2022.

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<li>Egypt urban population for 2022 was <strong>48,388,683</strong>, a <strong>1.75% increase</strong> from 2021.</li>
<li>Egypt urban population for 2021 was <strong>47,558,393</strong>, a <strong>1.69% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Egypt urban population for 2020 was <strong>46,768,290</strong>, a <strong>1.76% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
</ul>Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.

Urban population growth (annual %) in Egypt was reported at 2.0992 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Egypt - Urban population growth (annual %) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

As of January 1, 2022, the share of the population living in urban areas in Egypt amounted to 43 percent of the total population. Moreover, the capital city, Cairo, as well as the coastal cities, Port-said and Suez, were fully urbanized. Alexandria followed closely with up to 98 percent of the population residing in the urban areas. On the other hand, the population in the governorate of Qena was mainly concentrated in the rural regions, with only 18.3 percent of its inhabitants living in the urban zones.

Egypt Number of Households: Urban data was reported at 10,967.000 Unit in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 6,731.000 Unit for 2013. Egypt Number of Households: Urban data is updated yearly, averaging 10,967.000 Unit from Jun 2005 (Median) to 2015, with 5 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 21,995.000 Unit in 2005 and a record low of 6,731.000 Unit in 2013. Egypt Number of Households: Urban data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Egypt – Table EG.H013: Number of Households.

Egypt Population: Census: Female: Urban data was reported at 19,516.935 Person th in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 15,357.000 Person th for 2006. Egypt Population: Census: Female: Urban data is updated yearly, averaging 5,901.000 Person th from Dec 1907 (Median) to 2017, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 19,516.935 Person th in 2017 and a record low of 929.000 Person th in 1907. Egypt Population: Census: Female: Urban data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Egypt – Table EG.G004: Population: by Rural and Urban.

Forecast: Population in Urban Agglomerations of More Than 1 Million in Egypt 2024 - 2028 Discover more data with ReportLinker!

Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population) in Egypt was reported at 100 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Egypt - Access to electricity, urban - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

According to a survey conducted between 2021 and 2022, the share of households using the internet from home in urban areas was ** percent. This was higher compared to the proportion with internet access at home in rural areas, which was **** percent.

Historical dataset showing Egypt urban population by year from 1960 to 2023.

Egypt Population: Urban data was reported at 40,432.000 Person th in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 38,895.000 Person th for 2016. Egypt Population: Urban data is updated yearly, averaging 29,391.500 Person th from Jun 1990 (Median) to 2017, with 28 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 40,432.000 Person th in 2017 and a record low of 22,519.000 Person th in 1990. Egypt Population: Urban data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Egypt – Table EG.G004: Population: by Rural and Urban.

This dataset provides detailed information on road surfaces from OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, distinguishing between paved and unpaved surfaces across the region. This information is based on road surface prediction derived from hybrid deep learning approach. For more information on Methods, refer to the paper

Roughly 0.6438 million km of roads are mapped in OSM in this region. Based on AI-mapped estimates the share of paved and unpaved roads is approximately 0.0602 and 0.0169 (in million kms), corressponding to 9.344% and 2.6252% respectively of the total road length in the dataset region. 0.5667 million km or 88.0308% of road surface information is missing in OSM. In order to fill this gap, Mapillary derived road surface dataset provides an additional 0.0022 million km of information (corressponding to 0.3924% of total missing information on road surface)

It is intended for use in transportation planning, infrastructure analysis, climate emissions and geographic information system (GIS) applications.

This dataset provides comprehensive information on road and urban area features, including location, surface quality, and classification metadata. This dataset includes attributes from OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, AI predictions for road surface, and urban classifications.

AI features:

• pred_class: Model-predicted class for the road surface, with values "paved" or "unpaved."

• pred_label: Binary label associated with pred_class (0 = paved, 1 = unpaved).

• osm_surface_class: Classification of the surface type from OSM, categorized as "paved" or "unpaved."

• combined_surface_osm_priority: Surface classification combining pred_label and surface(OSM) while prioritizing the OSM surface tag, classified as "paved" or "unpaved."

• combined_surface_DL_priority: Surface classification combining pred_label and surface(OSM) while prioritizing DL prediction pred_label, classified as "paved" or "unpaved."

• n_of_predictions_used: Number of predictions used for the feature length estimation.

• predicted_length: Predicted length based on the DL model’s estimations, in meters.

• DL_mean_timestamp: Mean timestamp of the predictions used, for comparison.

OSM features may have these attributes(Learn what tags mean here):

• name: Name of the feature, if available in OSM.

• name:en: Name of the feature in English, if available in OSM.

• name:* (in local language): Name of the feature in the local official language, where available.

• highway: Road classification based on OSM tags (e.g., residential, motorway, footway).

• surface: Description of the surface material of the road (e.g., asphalt, gravel, dirt).

• smoothness: Assessment of surface smoothness (e.g., excellent, good, intermediate, bad).

• width: Width of the road, where available.

• lanes: Number of lanes on the road.

• oneway: Indicates if the road is one-way (yes or no).

• bridge: Specifies if the feature is a bridge (yes or no).

• layer: Indicates the layer of the feature in cases where multiple features are stacked (e.g., bridges, tunnels).

• source: Source of the data, indicating the origin or authority of specific attributes.

Urban classification features may have these attributes:

• continent: The continent where the data point is located (e.g., Europe, Asia).

• country_iso_a2: The ISO Alpha-2 code representing the country (e.g., "US" for the United States).

• urban: Binary indicator for urban areas based on the GHSU Urban Layer 2019. (0 = rural, 1 = urban)

• urban_area: Name of the urban area or city where the data point is located.

• osm_id: Unique identifier assigned by OpenStreetMap (OSM) to each feature.

• osm_type: Type of OSM element (e.g., node, way, relation).

The data originates from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and is augmented with model predictions using images downloaded from Mapillary in combination with the GHSU Global Human Settlement Urban Layer 2019 and AFRICAPOLIS2020 urban layer.

This dataset is one of many HeiGIT exports on HDX. See the HeiGIT website for more information.

We are looking forward to hearing about your use-case! Feel free to reach out to us and tell us about your research at communications@heigit.org – we would be happy to amplify your work.

This is the first release of a database of selected articles about Cairo's urban development, from the offical gazette of the Egyptian Government (al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Miṣriyyah), between 1828 and 1914. In this release, we only reproduce the The articles are in Arabic and in Ottoman Turkish. All are fully marked-up XML files with the TEI standard. The making of this database was supported by a collaborative research award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (RZ-286808-22) in 2022. Project director was Adam Mestyan (Duke University) and co-directors were Hugh Cayless (Duke University) and Mercedes Volait (CNRS).

This database is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Project-Cairo-Urban-News/markeduparticlesforpublication/compare/v3.0.0...v4.0.0

Population in the largest city (% of urban population) in Egypt was reported at 44.88 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Egypt - Population in the largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Egypt EG: Urban Population data was reported at 41,660,073.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 40,889,687.000 Person for 2016. Egypt EG: Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 24,143,098.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 41,660,073.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 10,221,967.000 Person in 1960. Egypt EG: Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Egypt – Table EG.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.; ; World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.; Sum;

Number of Housing Units: Census: Urban: Lower Egypt: Monufia data was reported at 218,819.000 Unit in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 308,880.000 Unit for 2006. Number of Housing Units: Census: Urban: Lower Egypt: Monufia data is updated yearly, averaging 197,573.500 Unit from Dec 1986 (Median) to 2017, with 4 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 308,880.000 Unit in 2006 and a record low of 116,799.000 Unit in 1986. Number of Housing Units: Census: Urban: Lower Egypt: Monufia data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Egypt – Table EG.EB012: Number of Housing Units: Census: by Type of Use: Urban.

This dataset is about countries per year in Egypt. It has 1 row and is filtered where the date is 2023. It features 4 columns: country, currency, and urban population.

Egypt Number of Housing Units: Census: Urban: Urban Governorates: Cairo data was reported at 2,596,291.000 Unit in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3,630,383.000 Unit for 2006. Egypt Number of Housing Units: Census: Urban: Urban Governorates: Cairo data is updated yearly, averaging 2,477,643.000 Unit from Dec 1986 (Median) to 2017, with 4 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,630,383.000 Unit in 2006 and a record low of 1,719,594.000 Unit in 1986. Egypt Number of Housing Units: Census: Urban: Urban Governorates: Cairo data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Egypt – Table EG.EB012: Number of Housing Units: Census: by Type of Use: Urban.

Number of Housing Units: Census: Urban: Lower Egypt: Gharbia data was reported at 379,339.000 Unit in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 580,457.000 Unit for 2006. Number of Housing Units: Census: Urban: Lower Egypt: Gharbia data is updated yearly, averaging 362,398.500 Unit from Dec 1986 (Median) to 2017, with 4 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 580,457.000 Unit in 2006 and a record low of 257,319.000 Unit in 1986. Number of Housing Units: Census: Urban: Lower Egypt: Gharbia data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Egypt – Table EG.EB012: Number of Housing Units: Census: by Type of Use: Urban.