Egypt recorded an 8 percent decline in population growth rate in 2023 compared to 2022, according to a statement released by Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar on Friday. The birth rate in Egypt reached 2.4 million in 2023, said Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, the ministry’s spokesman, Based on the official data, the number of births in 2023 reached 5,599 per day or nearly 233 per hour, the spokesman added. However, he noted that Upper Egypt’s governorates of Assiut, Sohag, Qena, Minya, and Luxor recorded the highest birth rates in 2023.