Overpopulation Pressures Egypt's Health Sector

January 2006 | Company Finance Alert

However, despite the problems with the healthcare system, Egypt's health indicators have improved. Female life expectancy at birth rose from 70.5 to 72.8 years between 1999 and 2004, while male life expectancy rose from 66.3 to 68.4 years in the same period. The infant mortality rate for under-fives declined from 36.9 per 1,000 in 1999 to 28.6 in 2004. This was largely due to immunisation and other programmes such as rural healthcare schemes funded by foreign

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