Data & Mapping
Who Build Egypt’s Housing 2021
28 June 2022
In our second issue of this Built Environment Observatory fact sheet, we analyse statistics on Egypt’s residential construction up to the latest available year, 2020/2021.
In our second issue of this Built Environment Observatory fact sheet, we analyse statistics on Egypt’s residential construction up to the latest available year, 2020/2021.
In our Egypt State of Housing 2022 series, we focus on the state of women and housing in Egypt. Women and housing series looks at the gendered reality of women’s housing situations from a perspective of the right to safe and independent housing. Here, we take a closer look at the systemic barriers towards these rights.
As more and more new housing is built in remote areas, leading residents to rely ever more on transport, the Built Environment Observatory looks at the facts and figures around road safety in Egypt, with a particular focus on pedestrians. […]
An analysis of the size of the informal private sector, the target of a new reconciliation law
As part of the BEO’s State of Housing 2017 series, this fact sheet presents a current overview of rent in Egypt
Table 1: Percentage of vacant units and estimated number of years to fill them This is a theoretical calculation used to show the potential uptake of existing units if they were to be lived in. Calculations are estimated as: Total […]
Table 1: Population data, Gross, Inhabited and Built-up Areas by Governorate Gross area refers to the area of the governorate based on Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) 2015 data. Inhabited area refers to Urban and agricultural land […]
The actual GR for New Cities was calculated as the difference between the 2006 Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) census and an assumed base population at 10% of the target, divided by the number of years between the […]
To understand how realistic the population growth rates projected for various projects were, we calculated the most recent actual growth rate per governorate based on census data produced for 1996 and 2006 by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and […]
Over 9.2 million households (53.4%) in Egypt are without improved sanitation. Most households use unsealed septic tanks, or informal sewage networks that discharge raw sewage into canals. Deprivation of improved sanitation is disproportionately high in rural regions in Egypt (Upper […]
About 17% of Egyptian households are deprived of access to safe water. The highest incidence is in Upper Egypt, where deprivation ranges from 19% to 46%. About 2.3 million households (13.3% of the population) do not have access to a […]
An estimated 70% of Egyptian households live without secure tenure. The rural Delta governorate of Gharbia had the highest proportion at 93% without secure tenure. The Frontier governorate of South Sinai had the least, at 8% of households. An unspecified […]
Official statistics reveal that about 3.2% of households live in non-durable housing; condemned buildings in a pronounced state of disrepair or in so-called unsafe areas prone to rock-slides and flash floods. While a large portion of these buildings can be […]
About 7.7% of Egypt’s population live in extremely crowded conditions (one or two room dwellings). Most of this housing is permanent and may be: standalone shacks; porter or guard’s rooms; old emergency housing; large homes subdivided into rooms; basement rooms […]
An estimated 54.3% of Egyptians are considered cost burdened. Median rents or house prices surpass what they can comfortably afford: 59.4% of households would have to pay more than 25% of their monthly income to rent the median priced home […]
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