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Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS; ) is the official statistical agency of
Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates statistical data and conducts the
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. CAPMAS was established by a Presidential Decree 2915 in 1964 and is the official provider of data, statistics, and reports. CAPMAS functions support state planning, decision-making and policy assessment but it has been criticized for acting as an information regulator and for failing to provide access to
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. Researchers must obtain a permit from CAPMAS prior to doing
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in the country.


History

A ''
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'' was being considered in 2013 by the
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, to help ensure high level of transparency and disclosure in line with international
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but some doubted it would pass and as of 2016, there is no such law for Egypt. The agency participated in
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(in October 2015), with activities honoring senior
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, holding workshops, and with the launching of their new website.


Population growth

One of the more important findings, by the agency, has been the type of population growth occurring in Egypt. Since 2014, Major General Abu Bakr al-Gendy, the head of CAPMAS, said that Egypt's population has been growing, for decades, at an
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rate. He said the population grows at an alarming 1 million Egyptians every six months and called this type of growth "a virus" that must be addressed.


See also

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Census in Egypt The practice of conducting a periodic census began in Egypt in the second millennium BC, where it was used for tax gathering and to determine fitness for military services. Pre-modern censuses Pharaonic era The earliest Egyptian census was the ...
*
List of national and international statistical services The following is a list of national and international statistical services. Central national statistical services Nearly every country in the world has set a central public sector unit entirely devoted to the production, harmonisation and dissemin ...


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Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...