Every chart below is drawn from EgyBI's knowledge base — the same data that powers the practice challenges. Every figure is cited; where sources genuinely disagree, we say so rather than smoothing it over.
A real geographic choropleth — the kind of view Power BI or Tableau would build — filled with cited figures for every one of Egypt's 27 governorates. Switch the metric to see how population concentrates on the Nile while the desert governorates sprawl empty. Hover any governorate for its exact figure.
Boundaries: geoBoundaries.org (EGY ADM1, CC-BY 4.0), simplified & bundled offline. Metrics: population, density & area from the EgyBI knowledge base (CAPMAS, Nov 2023); growth compares that against the 2017 CAPMAS census (via citypopulation.de) — see the desert frontier governorates (South Sinai +43%, Matrouh +36%) outpace the crowded Delta; urban % is the urban share (Wikipedia governorates table, CAPMAS ~2016 — a proxy, ±1–2 points) and lights up the fully-urban city governorates (Cairo, Port Said, Suez). Colours are quantile bins (six equal-count groups) so extreme skew — Cairo's ~10.5M vs South Sinai's ~146k — stays readable. Every figure is queryable on the Practice page.
Source: World Bank (NY.GDP.MKTP.CD). The 2017 and 2022–24 dips are largely EGP devaluation effects on the nominal-USD figure — real GDP kept growing. 2025/26 snapshot (IMF/World Bank, 2026): real GDP growth ~4.3% in 2025 (the IMF lifted its FY25/26 forecast to 4.5%), and inflation is easing fast — from a 2024 average of 33.3% toward ~20% in 2025 and about 13% by early 2026.
Source: World Bank value-added shares. Shares sum to ~95%; the residual is taxes-less-subsidies (WB methodology). Services dominate, agriculture ~11%.
One of the world's most important shipping arteries and Egypt's top hard-currency earner — until Red Sea shipping attacks from late 2023 diverted much of the world's fleet around Africa. The hit deepened through fiscal-year 2024/25.
Sources: Suez Canal Authority, Central Bank of Egypt, Egypt's Ministry of Planning (updated 2026). After the 2024 plunge, revenue kept falling: FY2024/25 dropped ~45.5% to about $3.6bn (from $6.6bn a year earlier), with overall canal activity down ~52% and transiting ships down to ~12,400. Calendar-2024 revenue is variously reported near $3.9bn — the exact figure differs by window (calendar vs fiscal year), which is why both red bars are flagged as the crisis period.
Source: Lloyds Bank / Coface trade profile. Petroleum & electricity lead at ~33% of exports; garments, fertilizers, plastics, and gas follow.
Source: Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities, CBE, UNWTO. 2025's ~19M is officially confirmed (SIS/Minister). 2021 revenue is blank — sources disagree.
Source: World Bank (SP.POP.TOTL). Egypt quadrupled from ~27M (1960) to ~117M (2024). CAPMAS's domestic count (~107M) is lower by methodology.
Source: Ember. The grid is ~88% fossil (mostly natural gas); wind + solar reached ~5% in 2023, up from ~1% in 2015.
Source: World Bank. The 2017 and 2023 inflation spikes track the 2016 float and the 2022–24 devaluations, as the pound fell from ~10 to ~45+ per dollar. A textbook example of handling volatile, event-driven data.
Source: CAPMAS (Nov 2023). Top 8 of 27 governorates. Over 95% of Egyptians live on ~4% of the land — the Nile Valley and Delta.
The ICT sector nearly doubled its share of GDP — from 3.2% (2018) to 5.8% (2024) — and was the country's fastest-growing sector for roughly seven years. A generation of Egyptian tech companies grew with it.
Sources: Egypt's Ministry of Communications & IT (MCIT); company reporting. Internet penetration ~73% (World Bank, 2023); ~82M users (industry estimate).
A handful of family groups anchor Egypt's private sector — the Sawiris family in construction, telecom and fertilizers; the Mansours in automotive and retail distribution. Six Egyptians sit on the Forbes real-time billionaires list, led by Nassef Sawiris, the country's richest person.
Source: Forbes / Forbes Middle East (2026). Egypt fields six billionaires worth about $23.1bn combined, led by Nassef Sawiris (~$9.6bn). Net worth is a point-in-time estimate that moves with markets and currency — the top three eased vs 2025 (Nassef 9.9→9.6, Naguib 5.6→5.0, Mohamed Mansour 4.0→3.4). Only Forbes-listed billionaires are shown; stake-value figures for Ahmed Ezz and Safwan Thabet are tracked separately and flagged as not full net worth.
In a decade Egypt went from roughly a third online to three-quarters — reshaping how ~106 million people bank, shop, watch and argue. Here's the connectivity climb, who Egypt trades with, and where its attention actually goes.
Source: World Bank / ITU. Internet use went from ~38% (2015) to ~75% (2024). Read the 2019 jump with care — it reflects a survey/methodology break, not one year of real doubling. Mobile subscriptions per 100 dipped in 2018 after a SIM re-registration clean-up.
Source: DataReportal, Digital 2025 Egypt. Ranked by advertising reach, not unique people — so totals can exceed the adult population and should be read as reach, not headcount. YouTube, Facebook and TikTok lead by a wide margin.
Source: OEC / UN Comtrade mirror (2023), US$ billions. Imports concentrate — China alone is ~15.5% — while exports spread out across Turkiye, Italy, the Gulf and the US. Figures differ modestly from CAPMAS national statistics.
Egypt is a serious farming nation: a top-5 global tomato grower, the world's top orange exporter, and producer of ~9 million tonnes of wheat a year. Yet with ~106 million people to feed, it is also the world's largest wheat importer — the gap between what the Nile valley can grow and what the country eats.
Source: FAOSTAT (official, 2015–2023). Wheat holds near ~9M tonnes; rice collapsed in 2018 when the government cut paddy acreage to save Nile water, then rebounded strongly by 2023. Egypt still imports ~13M tonnes of wheat a year on top of this — domestic output can't close the gap.
A sourced timeline of eras and turning points — the same data behind the platform's history challenges.
2026 status, honestly flagged: the Grand Egyptian Museum was fully inaugurated 1 Nov 2025; the Cairo Monorail NAC line became operational May 2026 (Africa's longest); the New Administrative Capital is occupied but sparsely (~30,000 residents vs a 6.5–7M long-term target); High-Speed Rail and El Dabaa nuclear remain under construction with no section live yet. Targets are labelled as targets in the data. Sources: SIS, Wikipedia, World Nuclear News, France 24.
Egypt sits on the Suez Canal and wants to turn that geography into a logistics industry: dry ports, the SCZONE's six ports, the deepest man-made basin in the world at Ain Sokhna, and a rail-freight upgrade. Its World Bank Logistics Performance score has climbed to 3.1 — but the 2030 capacity ambitions are still targets.
Sources: Egypt's State Information Service (SIS) national logistics strategy; World Bank LPI (2023). The 2030 figures are official targets, not achievements — seaport cargo ~185→400 Mt/yr and container handling 12→40M TEU/yr. Read the pairs as ambition against a current baseline.
Egypt runs the oldest, largest and most influential film industry in the Arab world. From Studio Misr (1935) and the Golden Age to a 2025 box-office recovery, it has produced the majority of all Arab cinema — and a century of singers and artists who defined the region's culture.
Sources: Wikipedia (Cinema of Egypt, Studio Misr), Ahram Online, Britannica, Screen Daily, Variety, Guinness World Records. Disputed birth/death dates (Umm Kulthum, Soad Hosny) are flagged in the underlying data.
Egypt holds a record 7 Africa Cup of Nations titles, Al Ahly a record 12 CAF Champions Leagues, and the country utterly dominates world squash. It was the first African and Arab nation to compete at the Olympics (Stockholm 1912).
Sources: CAF, FIFA, PSA, Egyptian Olympic Committee / SIS. Different competitions — compare within a bar's category, not across. Olympic figure is total medals (38); the rest are titles.
Source: Wikipedia (Egyptian Premier League, since 1948). Only seven clubs have ever won it; Al Ahly holds ~68% of all titles. Cairo's Ahly–Zamalek duopoly is among the most lopsided in world football.
Sources: Wikipedia, FIFA, Premier League. Caps/goals are as of July 2026 and grow with his career. Egypt finished 4th at AFCON 2025 in Morocco.
Egypt's men are the strongest handball nation outside Europe: a record-tying 10 African Championships (beating Tunisia 37–24 in the 2026 final in Rwanda), a 4th place at both the 2001 World Championship and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics — the best-ever finishes by a non-European team — and back-to-back youth world titles (U-21 in 1993, U-19 in 2019, the first non-European winners).
Source: Wikipedia (Egypt men's national handball team); Egypt Independent. Egypt hosted the first 32-team World Championship in 2021 (finished 7th).
Manufacturing is ~32% of GDP, led by petroleum, steel, textiles and the largest pharmaceutical industry in the MENA region. In 2024 the UAE's $35bn Ras El Hekma deal became the largest single foreign investment in Egypt's history.
Sources: Bloomberg, IMF, Arab News, Xinhua. SCZONE cumulative totals vary by window ($8.3–11.6bn); the 2024 IMF $8bn is the augmented total, not new money. Both are flagged in the data.
Egypt has launched satellites since 2007, hosts the African Space Agency, is building its first nuclear plant (El Dabaa, 4.8 GW), and in 2023 became the first country worldwide awarded WHO "gold tier" on the path to eliminating hepatitis C.
Source: Space in Africa, SIS, Wikipedia. Earth-observation and communications satellites, 2007–2024, with partners incl. Russia, China, France and Germany.
Source: WHO. The "100 Million Seha" campaign cut prevalence from ~10% (2016) to 0.38% (2023) using locally made antivirals — new infections down ~97% in eight years.
Egypt lives well below the water-scarcity line and depends on the Nile for ~97% of its renewable water — so it re-engineers every drop: record-breaking treatment plants, vast land-reclamation, canal lining and a national desalination push.
Source: FAO AQUASTAT. Agriculture takes ~86%. The split rests on a 2010 baseline — the proportion is stable and robust, the absolute volume is dated (flagged in the data).
The world's largest water-treatment plant — one of three Guinness World Records — reclaiming 456,000 feddans of Sinai farmland.
Source: Egypt SIS / ACCIONA. Distinct from the New Delta / El-Hammam plant (7.5M m³/day, agricultural drainage).
Egypt is building one of the world's largest new transport networks at once — a three-line Siemens high-speed railway, two monorails, new metro lines and an LRT. Most of it is still under construction, so the data flags what's running today versus what's promised.
Sources: Siemens Mobility, Alstom, Vinci, National Authority for Tunnels. The 2,000 km high-speed network and 6th-of-October monorail are under construction; costs are approximate.
Egypt placed 20 universities in the QS World University Rankings 2026, up from 15 the year before — led by Cairo University (347th) and the American University in Cairo (381st). Al-Azhar traces its teaching to 970 CE, making it one of the oldest universities on Earth.
Source: QS World University Rankings 2026. Bands (e.g. 1201–1400) are QS's own grouping for lower ranks. Enrollment figures are approximate.
Six cultural, one natural — from the Giza pyramid fields to the Whale Valley fossils that record how whales left the land. Six were inscribed in a single year, 1979.
On open, published indices Egypt ranks among the world's stronger militaries — 1st in Africa and 19th of 145 globally on Global Firepower's 2026 index — and it is one of the world's largest arms importers. This section is public rankings and figures only: no operational detail, and every number is an estimate from a cited open source.
Source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database (2020–2024 window), shares of Egypt's total arms imports. The supplier mix is now European-led — Germany, Italy and France — not US-led. Figures are SIPRI trend-indicator shares, not dollar values, and the volume of imports fell ~44% versus 2015–19.
Primary sources include the World Bank, the Central Bank of Egypt, CAPMAS, the Suez Canal Authority, Egypt's State Information Service, UNESCO, and the Met Museum. Disputed and approximate figures are flagged in the data itself — accuracy over polish.