Egypt Key Figures
- Population:
- 115 million
- GDP growth rate:
- 2.67 %/year
- Energy independence:
- 75.7%
Data of the last year available: 2024
- Total consumption/GDP:*
- 66.5 (2005=100)
- CO2 Emissions:
- 1.84 tCO2/capita
- Rate of T&D power losses:
- 15.3%
* at purchasing power parity
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Egypt Total Energy Consumption
Energy consumption per capita stood at 0.85 toe in 2024including 1 640 kWh of electricity.
Total energy consumption peaked in 2021 at 101 Mtoe then declined by 6% in 2022 and by 1% in 2021 and finally rebounded to 98 Mtoe in 2024 (+5%). It grew by 2.5%/year in average from 2010 to 2021.
Graph: CONSUMPTION TRENDS BY ENERGY SOURCE (Mtoe)
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Egypt Crude Oil Production
Crude oil production has declined by 15% since 2019 reaching 25 Mt (-3%/year), after fluctuating around 34-35 Mt since 2008. Production is concentrated in the Western Desert (56%) and the Gulf of Suez (23%). Egypt consumes almost all its oil production.
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Egypt Oil Products Consumption
Oil consumption increased by 5% in 2024 to 41 Mt, after a 7% decline in 2023, and a rapid progression from 2020 to 2022 (10%/year). Previously, consumption has been hovering around 34 Mt between 2000 and 2020.
The largest share of the oil consumption is absorbed by the transport sector (44%), followed by industry (15%), hydrocarbon industry (13%), power generation (11%), and buildings (9%).
Graph: OIL CONSUMPTION (Mt)
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Egypt Natural Gas Consumption
Gas consumption increased slightly in 2024 (+1%) to 57 bcm, after declining rapidly from 2021 to 2023 (-15%). Before it has been constantly increasing since 2000 except in 2014 (-10%), reaching its peak in 2021 at 66 bcm. Increase in gas consumption is driven by electricity production, while declining local gas production has impacted the overall consumption.
Almost 57% of the gas is used for the generation of electricity followed by industry 29%.
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Egypt Coal Consumption
Coal consumption is low. It reached 4.8 Mt in 2024 (+28%) increasing from 3.8 Mt in 2023 (+14%). Consumption had very strong fluctuations since 2015, with a very rapid progression from 2015 to 2018 where it reached its peak at 5.6 Mt, and then declined from 2018 to 2020, and rebounded strongly in 2021 (+ 62%).
Almost all coal consumption is absorbed by the industry sector (89%).
Graph: COAL CONSUMPTION (Mt)
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Egypt Power Consumption
Electricity consumption has increased by 4%/year since 2020, reaching 189 TWh in 2024. Between 2010 and 2018, it increased 3%/year on average and decreased by almost 6% in 2019.
Households absorb 35% of that consumption, followed by services (34%) and industry (26%) (2024).
Graph: ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION (TWh)
Graph: ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION BREAKDOWN BY SECTOR (2024,%)
Egypt Renewable in % Electricity Production
NREA, New & Renewable Energy Authority, was created in 1986 under the supervision of MERE to promote renewables. The Renewable Energy Law (2014) establishes different schemes for the private development of renewable energy projects, including the IPP public competitive bidding process, feed-in tariffs (FIT), and private-to-private sale of electricity from renewables.
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Egypt CO2 Fuel Combustion/CO2 Emissions
In its updated NDC (2023), the country increased its GHG emissions reduction target to 37% by 2030, instead of 33% in the 2022 update (reduction relative to a BaU scenario). This new objective implies a level of emissions of around 134 MtCO2eq in 2030 and a reduction of 80.5 MtCO2eq compared to the BAU scenario.