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Population Ageing - Egypt Report
Hala S Sweed
Correspondence:
Prof Hala S Sweed
Founder of the Egyptian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology Head of the Geriatrics and Gerontology Department Faculty of Medicine - Ain Shams University Egypt.
Email: halasweed@yahoo.co.uk
Middle East Journal of Age and Ageing Volume 13, Issue 2, December 2016
Introduction
Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and the second most populous on the African continent (after Nigeria).
The population of Egypt represents 1.20 percent of the world´s total population which arguably means that one person in every 84 people on the planet is a resident of Egypt. One of the main features of the Egyptian population over the last few decades is the gradual increase in the absolute and relative numbers of older people. This trend is expected to continue over the next decades. Egypt is expected to maintain the highest rank in absolute numbers in both old and oldest populations in the region, in 2050 Egypt is expected to have the largest number of old (23.7 million) and oldest old (3.1 million) populations in the region.
The Egyptian census is carried out every 10 years; the last one was in 2006. The percent of older people “defined as 60 years of age and more” was 4.4% in 1976, 5.75% in 1996, rising to 6.27% in 2006. The percentage is projected to be 6.9% in 2015, 9.2% in 2021, and it is expected to reach 20.8% in 2050. This means that, around 20 million Egyptians will be categorized as elderly by that time; this is a big number that resembles a full nation in some parts of the world.
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