[betaby]

With a such rapid demographic growth they have no choice. The population of Egypt doubled in last ~35 years. (quadrupled in the last ~60 years)

[nradov]

That's true for now, although their rate of population growth appears to have peaked several years ago and like most other countries the birth rate has since declined sharply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Egypt

[betaby]

People born yesterday are alive today and will be alive in the next ~70 years mostly.

[cute_boi]

Given this unsustainable population growth, I wonder how serious the refugee issue will become for Europe and the Americas over the next 30 to 40 years.

[sajithdilshan]

How is that even sustainable, like housing, education, electricity, running water, etc. how can they scale those with that fast growing population

[BurningFrog]

Typically, people produce about as much as they consume, so a growing population normally sustains itself.

[lazide]

Grow more crops, build more dams, etc?

Until they are out of room anyway, but they have a lot of unused desert right now.