Egypt’s unemployment rate drops to 6.1% in Q2 2025: CAPMAS reports
A new report by Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) shows that the country’s unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent in the second quarter of 2025 (April–June), marking a 0.2 percentage point decline from the previous quarter.
According to CAPMAS’s labour force survey for the second quarter of 2025 (April–June), released on Friday, the number of unemployed reached 2.054 million, representing 6.1 percent of the total labour force.
This figure marks a significant drop of 57,000 from the previous quarter and 4,000 from the same period last year. The unemployment rate among women declined to 15.8 percent, down from 16.4 percent in the previous quarter and 17.3 percent a year earlier.
Looking at the distribution of the unemployed population by age group, those aged 15-19 accounted for 10.2 percent of all unemployed individuals, up from 9.3 percent in the previous quarter. The largest share remained among those aged 20-24, holding steady at 28.9 percent. The 25-29 age group represented 20.7 percent, slightly up from 20.4 percent. In contrast, when considering a much broader age bracket — 30-64 — the proportion of unemployed declined to 40.2 percent of the total jobless population, compared with 41.4 percent in the previous quarter.
Geographically, unemployment in urban areas dropped to 9.7 percent of the labour force, down from 9.8 percent in the previous quarter and 10 percent in the same period last year. Rural unemployment fell to 3.3 percent, compared to 3.6 percent in the previous quarter and 3.8 percent a year earlier.
The report also noted that 78.2 percent of the unemployed hold intermediate, above-intermediate, or university qualifications, slightly lower than the 78.7 percent recorded in the previous quarter. Among the jobless, 21.8 percent have less than intermediate education, compared to 21.3 percent in the previous quarter; 33.4 percent hold intermediate or above-intermediate diplomas, down from 37.3 percent; and 44.8 percent have university degrees or higher, up from 41.4 percent in the previous quarter.