With a population exceeding 105 million citizens and nearly 9 million foreign residents, Egypt boasts a sizable and continually expanding populace. It currently holds the 14th position among the world's most populous nations. The population issue has been a long-standing concern for successive governments, impacting various facets of life in Egypt.
This is precisely why the construction of new cities has been initiated, with the promise of mitigating congestion in Cairo. The Egyptian capital's population has now surged to 10.3 million, as per the continuously rising population estimate maintained by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).