Migration trends in Egypt
Africa
4.8M people from Egypt have built lives abroad. That's 4.1% of the country population, spread across 72 different countries
116.5M
Population
1.1M
Immigrants
4.8M
Emigrants
−3.8M
Outflow
1 in every 25 people born in Egypt now lives abroad
The #12 largest source of emigrants worldwide
Top corridors
The largest migration routes in Egypt
Where people move to
Key moments
How migration has changed since 1990
1990
131.4K immigrants · 1.6M emigrants
1995
- Entered the world's 20 largest diasporas
2000
- Became the biggest country by emigrants in Africa
2005
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 63%
2010
- Surge of departures to Jordan — 234.3K people left
2015
- Syria overtook Palestine as the largest source of new arrivals
- Surge of departures to Kuwait — 185.1K people left
- A significant migration corridor emerged from Syria — 128K new residents
Today
- Sudan overtook Syria as the largest source of new arrivals
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 92%
- Surge of immigrants from Sudan — 451.5K new arrivals
- The foreign-born population passed 1M residents
- Since 1990: 935.2K more foreign-born residents and 3.2M more citizens living abroad