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==== Egypt ==== Most of [[Egypt]]'s businesses are small-sized, with 97 percent employing fewer than 10 workers, according to census data released by state-run statistics body [[Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (Egypt)|CAPMAS]] (Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics).<ref name=Ahram>{{cite web |url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/113642.aspx |title=Egypt lacks medium-sized businesses, as analysts blame regulation |author=Marwa Hussein |website=[[Ahram Online]] |date=2014-10-22 |accessdate=2025-03-15}}</ref> Medium-sized enterprises with 10 to 50 employees account for around 2.7 percent of total businesses. However, big businesses with over 50 employees account for 0.4 percent of all enterprises nationwide.<ref name=Ahram/> The data is part of Egypt's 2012/13 economic census on establishments ranging from small stalls to big enterprises. Economic activity outside the establishments β like [[street vendors]] and farmers, for example β were excluded from the census.<ref name=Ahram/> [[File:Expected_change_in_credit_demand_from_small_and_medium-sized_enterprises_over_next_year_(%25)_respondents_in_East_Africa.png|thumb|325x325px|Results from the [[European Investment Bank]]'s Banking in Africa survey, 2021, for the expected change in credit demand from SMEs in [[East Africa]]<ref name="Bank"/>]] The results show that Egypt is greatly lacking in medium-sized businesses.<ref name=Ahram/> Seventy percent of the country's 24 million businesses have only one or two employees. But less than 0.1 percent β only 784 businesses β employ between 45 and 49 people.<ref name=Ahram/>
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