Daniel Slotta
Research expert covering Greater China
Internet usage in Egypt - statistics & facts
Egypt ranks second in terms of its online population on the African continent. As of January 2023, the digital people in the country amounted to almost 80.8 million. It is Africa's third most populous country, following Nigeria and Ethiopia. Furthermore, this represented nearly 72 percent of the Egyptian population, increasing from 37 percent in 2017. North Africa had the slowest average internet download speed in the world in 2023, with Egypt placing second in the region, with a mean speed of 9.75 megabits per second. A rate that would take a five Gigabyte movie just over one hour and 10 minutes to download.
