Incidence of poverty in Egypt 2015-2020, by size of household
The incidence of poverty increases in Egypt as the number of household members grows. Nearly 81 percent of the households with ten or more people were living under the national poverty line in 2019/2020. This was higher than both in 2015 and 2017/2018. In comparison, only 7.5 percent of the households with one to three members were poor in 2019/2020.