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Table 17
Nile Delta governorates and their farmers
Farmers and
governorates’
assets
Alexandria Damietta Daqahlia
Sharkia
Qalyubia
Kafr El-Sheikh Gharbia
Menufia
Beheira
Ismailia
Number of
rural population
of governorate
population
68,293
907,542
4,656,592
5,377,062
3,224,929
2,557,058
3,594,336
3,410,855
5,050,630
724,046
Number of
rural
population less
than 45 years
61,513
736,497
3,724,327
4,698,561
2,820,808
2,191,825
3,041,145
2,924,387
4,386,988
61,513
Number of
rural population
over 45 years
6780
171,045
932,265
678,501
404,121
365,233
553,191
486,468
663,642
662,533
Number of
rural illiterate
population
18,876
161,496
899,806
1,149,609
652,730
592,279
656,797
618,183
1,339,788
151,057
Number of
poor population
619,650
149,677
908,933
1,002,935
1,181,758
605,193
549,960
645,240
1,234,323
195,599
Number of
employment in
agriculture of
total
governorate
employment
91,900
84,600
436,900
586,500
215,200
391,600
302,900
413,700
958,900
106,100
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