ABSTRACT
The official estimate of the population of Egypt in mid-1992 was 58.2 million, I of which 56.5 million resided in Egypt itself and the rest lived abroad.2 From the time that Husni Mubarak was inaugurated as president of Egypt in October 1981 until the end of 1992, the population of Egypt grew by 15.2 million inhabitants, an increase of about 35 percent (see table 7.1). According to most forecasts, the population of Egypt at the end of the 1990s will have increased by over three times its size at the time of the July 1952 revolution.3
