The latest Census in 2016 recorded 39,779 Egypt-born people in Australia, an increase of 8.9 per cent from the 2011 Census. At the time of the 1901 Census, there were 108 Egypt-born people living in Australia and by 1947 this number increased to 803.
The 2021 Census shows that the majority of Egypt-born Australians are located in Sydney (19,680) and Melbourne (13,312). Christianity (Majority) Islam, Baháʼí, Judaism (Minority).
The largest populations of Egyptian immigrants are found in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, but outside of these two areas, they are widely distributed across the United States. The state with the largest number of Egyptian immigrants is California.
Most of Egypt's people live along the banks of the Nile River, and more than two-fifths of the population lives in urban areas. Along the Nile, the population density is one of the highest in the world, in excess of 5,000 persons per square mile (1,900 persons/km2) in a number of riverine governorates.
Today, 95 percent of Egyptians live within a few kilometers of the Nile. Canals bring water from the Nile to irrigate farms and support cities. The Nile supports agriculture and fishing. The Nile also has served as an important transportation route for thousands of years.
However, Egyptians DNA makeup also shows that 3% originates from Southern Europe, 3% from Asia Minor, 3% from Eastern Africa, and 4% from the Jewish Diaspora. What is most staggering about the report is that nationals of the "Arab Republic of Egypt" are only 17% Arab.
Today, most of the Egypt-born population in Australia arrived prior to 1976. Most of the Egyptians who have arrived in Australia in recent years are urbanised and well educated, often migrating due to the shortage of skilled employment opportunities in their home country.
Worldwide gross domestic product in 2022 was at about 12,663 USD per capita. GDP in Egypt, on the other hand, reached USD 4,295 per capita, or 476.75 billion USD for the whole country. Egypt is therefore currently ranked 32 of the major economies. Inflation in Egypt in 2022 was around 13.90%.
The Egyptians are not Arabs, and both they and the Arabs are aware of this fact. They are Arabic-speaking, and they are Muslim—indeed religion plays a greater part in their lives than it does in those either of the Syrians.
The Chinese community in Egypt has grown to over 10,000 people, thanks to a burgeoning commercial relationship between the two countries.
Indigenous people have lived in Australia more than 65,000 years ago, according to scientific evidence of human occupation1. To put this in perspective, this is ten times older than the ancient Egyptian pyramids.
Australia and Egypt have warm relations based on longstanding ties and strong people-to-people links. There are approximately 100,000 Australians of Egyptian descent, and nearly 40,000 people living in Australia were born in Egypt.
Egypt has a GDP per capita of $12,000 as of 2020, while in Australia, the GDP per capita is $48,700 as of 2020.
Australian and New Zealand troops arrived in Egypt in December 1914. They set up Mena Camp near the Great Pyramids outside Cairo and began training in preparation for the Western Front and Gallipoli. This footage sees them exploring the extraordinary landmarks - the Pyramids and the Sphinx.
Around 97% of the community in Victoria reside in Melbourne, with large concentrations in Broadmeadows, Brunswick and Coburg. Coptic Egyptian Christians are distinguished as the original inhabitants of Egypt and Northern Sudan.
All travellers, except New Zealand citizens, must obtain a visa or electronic travel authority before travelling to Australia. There are no direct flights between Egypt and Australia.
Egypt is largely dominated by one ethnic group: the Egyptians. But there are also two smaller groups, the Bedouins and the Berbers.
Ancient Egyptians Were Likely To Be Ethnically Diverse
Instead, they simply classified themselves by the regions where they lived. Scholarly research suggests there were many different skin colours across Egypt, including what we now call white, brown and black. But this is still a subject of much debate.
The official language of Egypt is Arabic, and most Egyptians speak one of several vernacular dialects of that language. As is the case in other Arab countries, the spoken vernacular differs greatly from the literary language.
The Nile was "a critical lifeline that literally brought life to the desert," as Lisa Saladino Haney, assistant curator of Egypt at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, writes on the museum's website. "Without the Nile, there would be no Egypt," writes Egyptologist in his 2012 book, The Nile.
The River Nile is the primary source of freshwater for drinking, irrigation, and industrial purposes in Egypt.
There are no places where you can swim in the Nile 100% safely. The biggest risk is from water-borne disease; however, other risks also exist – regardless of what your tour captain may tell you!