760,700 employed in Egypt’s public business sector in 2020

Egypt had a total of 760,700 employees in the public and public business sector in 2020, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).

The figures for 2020 reflect a decrease of 3.9% on the figure for 2019, when 791,200 were employed in the sector.

The data was issued in the agency’s Annual Bulletin of workers in public/ public business sector Statistics 2020. Other main indicators are show that

The report noted that there was a total of 659,700 male workers in the sector in 2020, compared to 686,400 in 2019, reflecting a decrease of 3.9 %.

Female workers reached 100,900 in 2020 compared to 104,800 in 2019, a decrease by 3.7%.

The Housing and Construction sector recorded the highest number of workers with 213,600 workers, representing 28.1% of total number of workers in the public/public business sector.