As of 2020, the majority of the individuals in the labor force in Egypt were men, as they accounted for 83.2 percent of the total. As of the same year, over 56 percent of the labor force actively working or searching for a job was in rural areas.
Distribution of the total labor force in Egypt in 2020, by gender
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