Egypt
Arab Republic of Egypt
- Capital
- Cairo
- Region
- Northern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 118 million
- Currency
- EGP
- Area
- 1,002,450 km²
Across Egypt's 37 priced cities, one person needs about $391 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $138.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
55out of 100
- Purchasing power25%32
- Safety20%54
- Health care15%48
- Climate10%87
- Air quality10%52
- Connectivity10%53
- Cost10%100
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #88
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
16.7
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
3.4
New York = 100
Purchasing power
45.5
New York = 100
One person
$391
A month, rent included
Net salary
$138
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$141
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$3,086
2025
Growth
+4.4%
2025
Unemployment
6.8%
2025
Inflation
14.1%
2025
Life expectancy
71.8 years
2024
Internet users
75%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 27.5%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 22.5%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 14%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 0%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 11%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 18.8%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 54.0
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 46.0
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2017
- 1.3
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #71 worldwide
- 99
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #78 worldwide
- 52
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +10%
Cities in Egypt
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Al `arish | 66 | 16.5 | — | — | — | 199.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 2Kafr El Sheikh | 66 | 14.8 | $47.81 | — | — | 194.6K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 3El Mahalla El Kubra | 65 | 15.1 | — | — | — | 592.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 4Talkha | 65 | 15.1 | — | — | — | 112.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 5Qalyub | 65 | 15.4 | $47.81 | — | — | 156.4K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 6Shibin Al Kawm | 65 | 16.2 | — | — | — | 267.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 7Al-hawamidiyah | 65 | 16.8 | — | — | — | 155.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 8Shubra Al Khaymah | 64 | 16.4 | — | — | — | 1.2M | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 910th of Ramadan | 62 | 15.3 | $57.38 | $220 | 87.5 | 246.1K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 10Rosetta | 62 | — | — | — | — | 301.8K | Low confidence |
| 11Bilqās | 62 | — | — | — | — | 137.1K | Low confidence |
| 12Idkū | 61 | — | — | — | — | 177.2K | Low confidence |
| 13Disūq | 61 | — | — | — | — | 149.3K | Low confidence |
| 14Aḍ-Ḍawāḥy | 61 | — | — | — | — | 148.6K | Low confidence |
| 15Az-Zuhūr | 61 | — | — | — | — | 266.4K | Low confidence |
| 16Al Maţarīyah | 61 | — | — | — | — | 162K | Low confidence |
| 17Kafr ad Dawwār | 61 | — | — | — | — | 128.5K | Low confidence |
| 18Al Manzalah | 61 | — | — | — | — | 127.4K | Low confidence |
| 19Dikirnis | 61 | — | — | — | — | 101.1K | Low confidence |
| 20Al Qāhirah al Jadīdah | 60 | — | — | — | — | 313.1K | Low confidence |
| 21Munūf | 60 | — | — | — | — | 125.7K | Low confidence |
| 22As Sinbillāwayn | 60 | — | — | — | — | 124K | Low confidence |
| 23Abū Kabīr | 60 | — | — | — | — | 154.5K | Low confidence |
| 24Al-'Ubūr | 60 | — | — | — | — | 139K | Low confidence |
| 25Fāqūs | 60 | — | — | — | — | 116.9K | Low confidence |
| 26Ashmūn | 60 | — | — | — | — | 124.5K | Low confidence |
| 27Mīt Ghamr | 60 | — | — | — | — | 153.8K | Low confidence |
| 28Zefta | 60 | — | — | — | — | 111.7K | Low confidence |
| 296th of October City | 60 | — | — | — | — | 368.7K | Low confidence |
| 30Ḩalwān | 60 | — | — | — | — | 230K | Low confidence |
| 31Madīnat an Naşr | 60 | — | — | — | — | 668.4K | Low confidence |
| 32Bilbeis | 60 | — | — | — | — | 185.2K | Low confidence |
| 33Al Khuşūş | 60 | — | — | — | — | 488.9K | Low confidence |
| 34Damietta (Dumyat) | 60 | 14.3 | $33.47 | $124 | 57.4 | 305.9K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 35Kirdāsah | 59 | — | — | — | — | 137.6K | Low confidence |
| 36Sinnūris | 59 | — | — | — | — | 133.5K | Low confidence |
| 37Port Said | 59 | 14.5 | — | $191 | 61.0 | 780.5K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 38Ḩadā’iq al Qubbah | 59 | — | — | — | — | 339.6K | Low confidence |
| 39Damanhur | 58 | 12.2 | $47.81 | $108 | 53.7 | 318.2K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 40Suez | 58 | 13.9 | $81.28 | $124 | 49.1 | 699.5K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 41Tanta | 57 | 13.9 | $63.75 | $112 | 47.2 | 576.6K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 42Banha | 57 | 14.1 | $115 | $147 | 51.3 | 182.3K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 43Zagazig | 57 | 14.6 | — | $156 | 49.6 | 430.4K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 44Ismailia | 57 | 13.6 | $79.69 | $105 | 42.4 | 429.5K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 45Qena | 56 | 18.9 | — | — | — | 252.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 46Mersa Matruh | 56 | 16.4 | — | $97.36 | 28.7 | 176.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 47Alexandria | 55 | 16.6 | $137 | $138 | 40.9 | 5.3M | High confidence, 72 contributors |
| 48Mansoura (El Mansura) | 55 | 14.4 | $120 | $95.24 | 32.4 | 622K | Medium confidence, 17 contributors |
| 49Hurghada | 54 | 19.3 | $219 | $153 | 34.3 | 207.1K | High confidence, 23 contributors |
| 50Giza | 54 | 16.7 | $141 | $127 | 37.0 | 4.4M | High confidence, 25 contributors |
| 51New Cairo | 54 | 21.4 | $310 | $190 | 34.5 | 313.1K | High confidence, 45 contributors |
| 52Esna | 54 | 18.9 | — | — | — | 462.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 53Al `alamayn | 53 | 15.9 | — | — | — | 7.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 54Sixth of October City (6th of October) | 53 | 16.1 | $124 | $268 | 83.6 | — | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 55Cairo | 52 | 19.9 | $216 | $205 | 45.5 | 9.6M | High confidence, 257 contributors |
| 56Aja | 51 | 23.6 | $113 | $285 | 69.5 | 47K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 57Beni Suef | 50 | 14.5 | $71.72 | $118 | 46.5 | 273.2K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 58Al Fashn | 49 | — | — | — | — | 113K | Low confidence |
| 59Samālūţ | 49 | — | — | — | — | 142K | Low confidence |
| 60Būsh | 49 | — | — | — | — | 136.4K | Low confidence |
| 61Maghāghah | 49 | — | — | — | — | 118.2K | Low confidence |
| 62Banī Mazār | 49 | — | — | — | — | 115.8K | Low confidence |
| 63Mallawī | 49 | — | — | — | — | 212.6K | Low confidence |
| 64Dayrūţ | 49 | — | — | — | — | 102.6K | Low confidence |
| 65Asyut | 48 | 14.2 | $95.63 | $115 | 42.4 | 528.7K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 66Manfalūţ | 48 | — | — | — | — | 117.9K | Low confidence |
| 67Abnub | 48 | — | — | — | — | 111.8K | Low confidence |
| 68Ţahţā | 48 | — | — | — | — | 134.3K | Low confidence |
| 69Abū Tīj | 48 | — | — | — | — | 105.4K | Low confidence |
| 70Ţimā | 48 | — | — | — | — | 101.1K | Low confidence |
| 71Sohag (Suhaj) | 48 | — | $95.63 | $134 | — | 266.9K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 72Akhmīm | 48 | — | — | — | — | 151.4K | Low confidence |
| 73Girga | 48 | — | — | — | — | 151.3K | Low confidence |
| 74El Faiyum | 47 | 15.2 | $179 | $70.13 | 19.7 | 519K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 75Minya | 47 | 13.7 | $96.49 | $77.19 | 29.2 | 283.6K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 76Aswan | 46 | — | — | — | — | 379.8K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 77Kom Ombo | 46 | — | — | — | — | 409.3K | Low confidence |
| 78Al Kharijah | 46 | — | — | — | — | 83.1K | Low confidence |
| 79Sharm El Sheikh | 46 | — | $363 | $153 | — | 38.5K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 80Dahab | 45 | 16.9 | $191 | $134 | 34.4 | 8K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 81Sheikh Zayed | 45 | 17.7 | $191 | $134 | 33.4 | — | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 82Luxor | 44 | 17.1 | $125 | $66.94 | 20.1 | 422.4K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 83Al Rehab | 44 | 16.9 | $242 | $115 | 26.5 | — | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |