Policy and Strategic Priorities for Egypt to Reap its Demographic Dividend
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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Egypt’s population program began in
the early 1970s and was very successful in bringing down the
country’s total fertility rate (TFR), the mean number of
children a woman will have by age 50. Key investments in
reproductive health and family planning (FP), as well as
women’s empowerment, contributed to an impressive decline in
the country’s TFR from 4.5 to 3.0 between 1988 and 2008.
Egypt’s population will continue to grow in the foreseeable
future. For Egypt to reap its demographic dividend, the
authors present six policy and strategic priorities that -
if well implemented - should yield the greatest reduction in
fertility. The six priorities are: increasing the
contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) - the central priority;
reducing school dropouts; increasing the female labor force
participation rate (LFPR); delaying age of marriage;
leveraging social protection programs; and improving the
governance of the population program.
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SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY, MARRIAGE AGE REFORM, FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION, HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT, GIRLS EDUCATION, SCHOOL DROPOUT REDUCTION, ACCESS TO CONTRACEPTIVES, POPULATION PROGRAM GOVERNANCE