Egypt — Market Overview
🇪🇬 Egypt
Egypt trades through the currency first and domestic demand second, with external funding, inflation, and state-led investment shaping market leadership and confidence. The cleanest read usually comes from FX and reserve stability, inflation and rates, and whether tourism, remittances, and Suez revenues are easing the external financing burden.
Mapa regional
Datos clave
Egypt de un vistazo
Capital
Currency
Primary exchange
Central bank
Region
Time zone
Fuente: CAPMAS Egypt,
Country dashboard
Por qué importa este mercado
This first pass is built as a reusable country page instead of a static essay. The page now combines a stylized country map, a switchable line-chart explorer, and linked peer countries so users can move from Egypt into the rest of the region without losing the macro frame.
Explorador macro
Cambia de variable sin perder el contexto del país
GDP, inflation, labor, policy, and industrial activity are shown on a quarterly path from 2000 onward, while debt and the local equity benchmark come in when usable history exists. This keeps the page focused on fiscal room and macro regime while the broader official country pipeline keeps expanding.
Real GDP growth
Egypt starter GDP-growth path anchored to sourced country profile readings; full official historical wiring is still pending.
Variables disponibles
Comercio y posición externa
Exportaciones, servicios y balanza externa
En lugar de un muro genérico de tarjetas macro, esta sección se centra en cómo el país capta demanda del exterior, dónde está su ventaja comercial y cómo evoluciona la balanza externa.
The full export figure, combining goods and services in one line. It is the cleanest way to read how much external demand Egypt is capturing across both physical products and higher-value intangible flows.
This is the merchandise side of exports: industrial supplies, capital goods, autos, food, and other physical products. It matters because it reflects the health of manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and the broader global industrial cycle.
This is the intangible side: finance, travel, licensing, business services, and IP-linked flows. It matters because it shows where Egypt is strongest in higher-margin, knowledge-intensive, and branded service activities.
Socios comerciales
Dónde comercia el país
Enfoque en materias primas
Exposición a materias primas
Trade in goods and services equaled 39.6% of GDP in 2024. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Services represented 46.6% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.
Manufactures accounted for 51.9% of merchandise exports in 2024.
Fuel exports accounted for 12.5% of merchandise exports in 2024, useful for reading commodity exposure.
Food exports accounted for 21.9% of merchandise exports in 2024, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Fuente: World Bank API: totalExports,
Qué vigilar
Marco de lectura
FX stability
Egypt should first be read through fx stability. When this regime shifts, local multiples and sector leadership usually shift with it.
inflation and rates
The cleanest read usually comes from FX and reserve stability, inflation and rates, and whether tourism, remittances, and Suez revenues are easing the external financing burden. That makes inflation and rates one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
tourism, remittances, and Suez revenues
The final layer is tourism, remittances, and suez revenues, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable earnings support for the EGX30.
Otros países
Continúa por Africa
Cada tarjeta abre la misma plantilla de país con su propio mapa, variables macro intercambiables y vista de referencia. Es la primera red enlazada de páginas de país de la región.
Africa
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
A fast-growing but state-shaped economy where reforms, inflation, agriculture, and FX shortages drive the macro picture.
Africa
🇬🇭 Ghana
A frontier market where cocoa, gold, oil, inflation, and IMF-backed stabilization shape sentiment.
Africa
🇰🇪 Kenya
An East African market where banks, telecoms, agriculture, and shilling stability drive the investment case.
Africa
🇲🇦 Morocco
A North African market shaped by domestic banks, consumer demand, phosphates, and the European trade cycle.
Africa
🇳🇬 Nigeria
A frontier market where oil, banking liquidity, inflation, and FX reform dominate the macro read.
Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania
An East African market where infrastructure, mining, telecoms, and domestic demand shape the growth story.
Real GDP growth
Qué señala esto
GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is lower by 3.0%, which points to a softer or less supportive backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still downward.