Egypt Energy - 2023

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2020)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 59.826 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 149,079,120,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 360 million kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 74 million kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 33.623 billion kWh (2019 est.)

comparison rankings: installed generating capacity 22; consumption 26; exports 79; imports 111; transmission/distribution losses 11

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 88.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 2.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 7.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 0.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Nuclear energy

Number of operational nuclear reactors: 0

Number of nuclear reactors under construction: 3 (2023)

Net capacity of operational nuclear reactors: 0GW

Percent of total electricity production: 0%

Percent of total energy produced: 0%

Number of nuclear reactors permanently shut down: 0

Coal

production: 262,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 2.31 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 86,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 2.134 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 16 million metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 660,800 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 810,200 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 204,100 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 117,400 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 3.3 billion barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

547,500 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

47,360 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

280,200 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 64,292,955,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 58,176,781,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 5,009,100,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

imports: 83.563 million cubic meters (2019 est.)

proven reserves: 1,783,958,000,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

235.137 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 8.728 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 112.281 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 114.128 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

40.063 million Btu/person (2019 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding Egypt on this page is re-published from the 2023 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Egypt 2023 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Egypt 2023 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.