EGYPT: THE "WHY NOW"

UNDERSTAND THE WHY NOW IN EGYPT

We have to look the demography in African countries to understand the "why now"

Bellow some numbers of Egypt, UK, Germany and Portugal

Egypt

Age structure

0-14 years: 33% (male 13,308,407/female 12,711,900)

15-64 years: 62.7% (male 25,138,546/female 24,342,230)

65 years and over: 4.3% (male 1,546,774/female 1,818,778) (2010 est.)

Median Age

Total: 24 (2007)

Male: 24 (2007)

Female: 24 (2007)

UK

Age group	Population		%
	Male	Female
0–14	5,560,489	5,293,871	18.0
15–64	20,193,876	19,736,516	66.3
65+	4,027,721	5,458,235	15.7

GERMANY

Age structure

▪   0–14 years: 13.7% (male 5,768,366/female 5,470,516)

▪   15–64 years: 66.1% (male 27,707,761/female 26,676,759)

65 years and over: 20.3% (male 7,004,805/female 9,701,551) (2010est.)

PORTUGAL

Estrutura etária

Ano		Estrutura Etária
		0-14 anos	15-64 anos	65 ou + anos
2005
	Percentagem	16,6%	66,3%	17,1%

When looking at those numbers we see at once that the people on the street will not move until Mubarak step down. In 1968 in France, we know that the times were different, and De Gaule used the army to stop the students on the streets. But now in Egypt the world would not accept it