Socio – Demographic characteristics of Egyptian labor force

Like most developing countries, Egypt is currently suffering \ from high rate of population growth that exceeds annually 2%. Such a rate impedes its efforts towards socioeconomic progress in many different ways. It increases the proportion of children in the population and raises its age dependency ratio, which means a large part of the resources are devoted to supply of services, food and other basic necessities rather than to investment on developing human resource and generating gainful employment Consequently, the increase in labor supply, accentuates unemployment, underemployment, low production and wage-while the supply for employment is insufficient to absorb the increasing number of-working age population .