Number of emigrants from Egypt 2000-2020, by gender
number of people migrating from Egypt can be observed since 2000, with slightly more than 1.9 million leaving the country. It is worth noting that the ratio between female and male migrants remained relatively stable.
In 2020, cumulative Egyptian emigrants amounted to roughly 3.6 million. Of these, the vast majority constituted males, amounting to roughly 65 percent of the total emigrants. The number of emigrants increased by around 14.6 percent in the five years since 2015. Overall, an increasing trend in the