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Snapshot of E gypt 23
• President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's initiative “Investment in Human Capital” The Total Number of Students Enrolled in Educational Stages in
is considered a paradigm shift in Egypt. The initiative encompasses the 2020/21 (million student)
development of youth skills and the provision, in coordination with the
private sector, of trainings based on the needs of the labor market, as
well as the development of education, health care and community-
based protection networks.
• The total number of students enrolled in primary education in the
academic year 2020/21 reached about 13.6 million students, while
the total number of students enrolled in preparatory and secondary
education reached about 5.8 and 2 million students, respectively, Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total
Primary Education Preparatory Education Secondary Education
whereas the total number of students enrolled in public universities and
Source: CAPMAS - Egypt in Figures 2023
Al-Azhar, reached about 2.4 million students, and the total number of
students enrolled in private universities reached about 220.7 thousand. Enrolled in Universities during 2021/22
• The total number of public universities graduates in the academic year Enrolled in Enrolled in Public
2019/20 reached 450.5 thousand, while the total number of private Private Universities 101.2 Universities & Azhar
universities graduates reached about 30.4 thousand during the academic Thousand Thousand 1.1 Million 1.3 Million
119.5
Female
Female
year 2019/20. Male 220.7 Male
Thousand 2.4 Million
"Egypt advanced "“Times Higher "Egypt advanced Total Total
14 places in the Education” confirmed five places in the
education quality that Egypt is the most Global Innovation Universities Graduates during 2021
index issued by US represented African Index (GII) for 2022,
News, which ranks country in the Times Egypt ranked 89th Private Public
the best educational Higher Education globally out of Universities
270.1
systems, as Egypt rankings, and is 132 countries, if Universities 17.2 201.3 Thousand
16.7
th
ranked 37 in 2022, working for major Thousand Thousand Thousand Female
Female
Male
471.4
st
compared to 51 reforms in the higher compared to 94th Male 34.9 Thousand
place in 2019." education system." place in 2021." Thousand Total
Total
Source: CAPMAS - Egypt in Figures March 2023