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RSS FeedsEgypt census workers detect another baby boom
(World News Egypt)

 
 

22 june 2017 09:14:22

 
Egypt census workers detect another baby boom
(World News Egypt)
 


CAIRO (AP) -- Census workers going door to door in Egypt's teeming neighborhoods and crowded towns are discovering a new country - of more than 20 million people born in the last decade alone. Family planning efforts have lapsed over the past decade, particularly during the chaotic years following the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. Today the government is mainly focused on combatting Islamic militancy and repairing the tattered economy. But the staggering growth rate in the most populous Arab country, already home to more than 93 million people, could worsen both problems by giving rise to yet another bulging generation with few job prospects and widespread reliance on...


 
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