OVERPOPULATION IN EGYPT

Overpopulation in Egypt

Overpopulation in Egypt

Egypt: Country Overview

Egypt is the Arab country's most populous, with more than 80 million people (estimated February 2008), 15 million of whom reside in Cairo. Another nucleus is significantly overpopulated Alexandria, near the Nile Delta. About 98% of the population concentrated along the Nile, whose fertile banks representing 3.5% of the surface. The density of population on both banks of the Nile is one of the highest in the world and its growth considered one of the serious problems the country.

The Egyptians are a fairly homogeneous people. Mediterranean influences (such as Greeks and Italians) and Arabs are in the north, and populations of Nubians in the south. Different theories been proposed about the origins of the Egyptians, however, no conclusive and widely accepted is that Egyptian society was the result of a mixture of Asian and East African people who moved to the Nile Valley after the Time Ice. Most of the modern Egyptian society is heterogeneous but keeps cultural ties with the ancient Egyptian society, which has always been considered the most populous country and compared to the surrounding demographics. Poverty in the long run leads to population growth.

Discussion

Population growth in Egypt is a real problem

In a poll of the Council of Ministers Information Centre prepared 53% of the citizens to move to additional cities, and that 75% of citizens do not believe that immigration is out of the solution to the population problem in Egypt. The poll confirmed that 53% of citizens were able to know the exact number of Egypt's population, and 67% do not believe that the current number of people suitable for the country's natural resources, and 85% of citizens consider that the population increase represents a real problem for Egypt now and in the future Given the severe impact on the level of living (Andrew, 2001).

The Centre for Information and Decision Support Council of Ministers that the problem of the population is among the challenges facing the development process in Egypt and the efforts made to curb this problem, but that the rate of population growth remains high, which requires greater awareness of the dimensions of the population problem in order to motivate citizens to take more positive attitudes towards the organization of their families to help solve the problem, so the poll conducted for the opinion of citizens on the issue of population in Egypt has been designed sample of a thousand people in eight provinces, including three economic levels low, medium and high (Badawy, 1968).

The results of the poll showed that 88% of respondents believe that the population is not evenly distributors in Egypt and that 88% believe that the current population in Egypt adversely affect the level of education and development and 67%, and agreed to bear the expenses of the government to teach children only in each family, also agreed to bear 63% of the government's medical expenses only two children in each family, also approved 52% of the sample not to give some privileges, ...