Egypt

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
99,375,741 1
Urban
42.70% 1
Rural
57.30% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
0.5% 2
Level of Public Corruption
108 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
132 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
3.31 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
2.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
71 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
72.05% 6
Internet Users
32% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$3,050 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
336,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
0.33
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
2,229
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
101
First Communions per Year
1,740
Confirmations per Year
2,266
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
66,529
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
50,595
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
770
Church Marriages per Year
1,205
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
1,176
Priests
472
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
1,009
Catholics per Priest
712
Parishes
248
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
50
Catholic Hospitals
18
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
16