Egypt Internet Market and Telecommunications Reports

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Egypt
Internet Usage and Telecommunications Reports


Egypt, officially the People’s officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a Middle Eastern country in North Africa. Egypt is geographically situated in Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula, east of the Suez Canal, connecting as a land bridge to Asia. Egypt borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and Israel and the Gaza Strip to the northeast; on the north and the east are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, respectively. Egypt is the sixteenth most populous country in the world.


Internet Usage Statistics:
16,636,000 Internet users as of December/09, 21.1% of the population, according to ITU.

Latest Population Estimate:
78,866,635 population for 2009, according to US Census Bureau.

Gross National Income:
GNI per capita is US$ 1,801 ('08) according to the World Bank.

Country Area:
1,001,450 sq km

Internet Usage and Population Growth:

YEAR

Users

Population

% Pen.

Usage Source

2000

450,000

66,303,000

0.7 %

ITU

2006

5,100,000

71,236,631

7.0 %

ITU

2008

10,532,400

81,713,517

12.9 %

ITU

2009

16,636,000

78,866,635

21.1 %

ITU