Total fertility rate of Egypt 1910-2020

In Egypt, the fertility rate in 1910 was 6.02 births per woman (the fertility rate gives the amount of children a woman is expected to have over the course of their reproductive years). This number spiked somewhat in the inter-war period, before dropping down to 5.91 births in 1940 during the Great Depression and the Second World War. As part of the global baby boom following the Second World War, Egypt’s fertility rate increased until it peaked at 6.75 births per woman in 1955. From 1955 until 2010, Egypt’s fertility rate fell, at first slowly, than more intensely from 1980 to 2010; primarily due to general improvements in healthcare and sanitation, but also as a result of strong government promotion of family planning initiatives. However, after bottoming out at 3.02 in 2010, Egypt’s fertility rate saw a sharp reversal, rising to 3.45 births per woman by 2015, following a period of significant economic and political unrest in the country.