Egypt Hazard Profile

Basic Data
Name of the country: Egypt
Total Area: 1,001,450 km
Total Population: 84,705,681
Urban: 37,433,982
Rural: 47,271,699
GDP per capita: $1566.44
Spectral Distribution of GDP:
GDP-Service: 47.5 percent of total GDP
Main Hazards:
Disasters in Egypt
Egypt has been (and continue to be) susceptible to a multiplicity of natural and man-made
disasters. Moreover, urban disasters and severe accidents are also frequent in the country and
quite often result in massive disaster situations.

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Terrorism especially in Sinai

Bombs put near police buildings and public transportation
Dust and cold storms
Also Droughts, Epidemic breakouts, severe accidents, Urban disasters
The abuse of agricultural lands for the sake of the housing legacy as well as traffic
congestion.

6- population growth that the Egyptian government has been trying restlessly to control
during the last decades

Disaster management framework:

To face these challenges, the Egyptian government established, in 2006, the National
Committee for Crisis Management and Disaster Risk Reduction, with an annual

budget for the implementation of disaster risk reduction plans and activities on both
central and local levels. Further to this, a National Strategy on Disaster Management
has been approved to reduce the risk of disasters, including the revision of existing
legislation and resources allocation.