Census in Egypt

A census is an enumeration of all the people of a nation or a registration region, a systematic and complete count of all who are living in specified places, usually on a specific date. The practice of conducting a periodic census began in Egypt in the second millennium before the common era, where it was used for tax gathering and to determine fitness for military services.

Pharaonic Period, 3050 BC
Egypt is one of the first world countries to know census. This is ensured by papyrus manuscripts, ancient monuments in Pharaonic temples, marking that the first census in Egypt was carried out in 3340 BC and in 3050 BC.

600 AD
A census also took place in the era of Hesham Abdel Malek ben Marwan in the year 600 AD including the number of population, their ages and residences.

1798 census

 * ’’’1798’’’- Egypt's population, estimated at 3 million when Napoleon invaded the country.

1882 census
The total number of population was 6.7 million.
 * ’’’1882’’’ The first census in Egypt had been carried out

1947 census

 * In’’’1947’’’ a census indicated that Egypt's population was 19 million.

1976 census

 * A census in’’’1976’’’ revealed that the population had ballooned to 36.6 million.

1986 census

 * In’’’1986’’’ a census indicated that the population of Egypt  reached a total of 50.4 million, including about 2.3 million Egyptians working in other countries.

1996 census

 * In’’’1996’’’ census the number of  population was 59.3 million.

2006 census

 * The thirteenth census in the  Egyptian census series ( 2006 census )   revealed that the Egypt's population hit 76.5 million inside and outside the country.