According to the World Population Review, Egypt has a population of about 102 million people, and its population is expected to double by 2078. A national family planning program was initiated in 1964, and had succeeded in lowering the birth rate by the 1990s (Holt, 2022). World Population Review states that Egypt’s fertility rate is about 3.3 births per woman which is above the population replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman.  Egypt is the third most populous country in Africa and the most inhabited in the northernmost region of the continent, and as of 2021, the country was expected to have over 102 million individuals living in it (Galal, 2021). There has also been concern of a rapid increase in population which could pose a threat to the economy of Egypt where one-third of the people would live below the poverty line and the unemployment rate would be around 10% (World Population Review, 2022). According to Holt (2022), most of Egypt’s people live along the banks of the Nile River, and more than two-fifths of the population lives in urban areas.