Egypt
EGY · 2024 energy mix · renewables 5.8% · fossil fuels 94.2%
Threat reading 38 of 100, classified HIGH THREAT, HOLDING. 0 events recorded here in the last seven days, 0 in the last thirty.
That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.
Where its energy comes from
| Gas | 53.3% |
|---|---|
| Oil | 39.2% |
| Hydro | 3.1% |
| Coal | 1.7% |
| Wind | 1.3% |
| Solar | 1.3% |
In 2024, renewables accounted for 5.8% and fossil fuels for 94.2%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Egypt is close to balanced on electricity trade.
Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.
Recorded history
NOAA's hazard records hold 16 significant earthquakes and 4 tsunamis in or just off Egypt since 419.
The deadliest was the October 1754 earthquake (Egypt: Al-qahirah (Cairo)), which killed 40,000 people.
The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 7.2, on 22 November 1995 (Egypt: Nuwaybi; Saudi Arabia; Israel; Jordan).
The most recent entry is the 24 August 2002 magnitude 4.4 earthquake (Egypt: Cairo).
Across the entries that record a death toll, 73,806 people died.
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1754 | earthquake | Egypt: Al-qahirah (Cairo) | 40,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 1457 | earthquake | Israel: Palestine; Syria | 32,000 dead |
| 27 November 885 | earthquake | Egypt: Al-qahirah (Cairo) | 1,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 12 October 1992 | magnitude 5.3 earthquake | Egypt: Cairo | 545 dead, 9,350 homes destroyed, $1,200 million damage |
| 7 August 1847 | earthquake | Egypt: Al-fayyum, Cairo | 126 dead, 4,072 homes destroyed, damage over $25 million |
| 12 November 1458 | earthquake | Israel: Palestine: Jordan: Al-karak (Karak) | 100 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 12 September 1955 | magnitude 6.3 earthquake | Egypt: Nile Delta | 22 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 22 November 1995 | magnitude 7.2 earthquake | Egypt: Nuwaybi; Saudi Arabia; Israel; Jordan | 11 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 22 November 1995 | tsunami (waves to 4 m) | Gulf of Elat-aqaba | 11 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 31 March 1969 | magnitude 7.0 earthquake | Egypt: Beni-souef, Al-qahirah (Cairo) | 2 dead, 107 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 31 March 1969 | tsunami | Gulf of Suez | 2 dead, 107 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 11 July 1879 | magnitude 5.9 earthquake | Egypt: Gulf of Suez | damage under $1 million |
| 14 November 1981 | magnitude 5.3 earthquake | Egypt: Aswan | 11 homes destroyed, damage under $1 million |
| 11 July 1879 | tsunami | Gulf of Suez | damage under $1 million |
| 24 June 1870 | tsunami | Alexandria | damage under $1 million |
| 24 August 2002 | magnitude 4.4 earthquake | Egypt: Cairo | damage under $1 million |
| 1 May 1212 | earthquake | Egypt: Gulf of Aqaba | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 25 February 1070 | earthquake | Egypt: Al-qahirah (Cairo); Israel: Jerusalem | damage $1 to 5 million |
| 758 | earthquake | Israel: Palestine; Syria: Halab; Turkey: Antakya | damage $1 to 5 million |
| 419 | earthquake | Israel: Palestine | damage $5 to 25 million |
A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.
Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.
In the last 30 days
Our feeds placed no events in Egypt in the last 30 days. That is a statement about the feeds we read, not proof that nothing happened.
What the threat reading is made of
| Conflict | 0 |
|---|---|
| Unrest | 0 |
| Security | 40 |
| Spillover from neighbours | 25 |
| Natural hazard | 0 |
| Resilience | 67 |
Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.
Other countries tracked
Where the data comes from
Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.