Insurance and financial services in Egypt
Egypt: Insurance and financial services was 12.0% in 2025. ▲ Rising
Insurance and financial services in Egypt, 1977–2025
Source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF). Measured in % of commercial service imports.
Analysis
Egypt recorded 12.0% for insurance and financial services in 2025.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 9.6% on the previous year and up 16.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, insurance and financial services in Egypt peaked at 12.4% in 2020 and was at its lowest, 2.7%, in 1992.
Egypt ranks 36th of 197 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 49 years of available data.
Insurance and financial services in Egypt, year by year
| Year | % of commercial service imports | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 3.8% | — |
| 1978 | 4.4% | +15.9% |
| 1979 | 4.6% | +4.5% |
| 1980 | 3.7% | -20.7% |
| 1981 | 4.4% | +19.7% |
| 1982 | 3.9% | -10.6% |
| 1983 | 4.3% | +10.0% |
| 1984 | 5.3% | +21.6% |
| 1985 | 5.1% | -4.1% |
| 1986 | 4.8% | -4.4% |
| 1987 | 5.3% | +9.7% |
| 1988 | 5.5% | +3.4% |
| 1989 | 4.3% | -21.1% |
| 1990 | 4.6% | +7.3% |
| 1991 | 4.1% | -12.4% |
| 1992 | 2.7% | -34.4% |
| 1993 | 2.7% | +0.1% |
| 1994 | 3.6% | +33.5% |
| 1995 | 4.6% | +29.3% |
| 1996 | 4.1% | -10.7% |
| 1997 | 3.4% | -18.4% |
| 1998 | 7.7% | +129.5% |
| 1999 | 8.2% | +6.0% |
| 2000 | 6.6% | -19.5% |
| 2001 | 6.9% | +4.9% |
| 2002 | 7.1% | +2.8% |
| 2003 | 7.4% | +4.7% |
| 2004 | 8.2% | +10.9% |
| 2005 | 10.3% | +25.0% |
| 2006 | 10.2% | -1.4% |
| 2007 | 10.4% | +2.9% |
| 2008 | 10.1% | -3.0% |
| 2009 | 11.3% | +11.7% |
| 2010 | 11.5% | +1.5% |
| 2011 | 11.5% | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 10.5% | -8.7% |
| 2013 | 10.6% | +1.1% |
| 2014 | 10.5% | -1.1% |
| 2015 | 10.3% | -1.8% |
| 2016 | 11.1% | +7.5% |
| 2017 | 11.1% | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 11.2% | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 11.1% | -0.5% |
| 2020 | 12.4% | +11.9% |
| 2021 | 11.2% | -9.8% |
| 2022 | 10.4% | -7.6% |
| 2023 | 12.3% | +19.1% |
| 2024 | 11.0% | -11.0% |
| 2025 | 12.0% | +9.6% |
Egypt compared with similar countries
- Egypt's 12.0% is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 6.5%, 1.8× the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Egypt's 12.0% is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 6.7%, 1.8× the median. (22 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Insurance and financial services in Egypt changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | +129.5% | 3.4% | 7.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 4.3% | 3.8% | 4.6% | 3 |
| 1980s | 4.7% | 3.7% | 5.5% | 10 |
| 1990s | 4.6% | 2.7% | 8.2% | 10 |
| 2000s | 8.9% | 6.6% | 11.3% | 10 |
| 2010s | 10.9% | 10.3% | 11.5% | 10 |
| 2020s | 11.6% | 10.4% | 12.4% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Egypt
- 33 Timor-Leste 12.4% compare
- 34 Dominican Republic 12.3% compare
- 35 Togo 12.2% compare
- 37 Chile 12.0% compare
- 38 Hong Kong, China 11.9% compare
- 39 Kyrgyzstan 11.7% compare
More private sector data for Egypt
- Merchandise trade 40.8% (2025)
- Food imports 20.4% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 52.2% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 97.54 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 21.9% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 51.9% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 51.40 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 434.27 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1407 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 21.67 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is insurance and financial services in Egypt?
- Insurance and financial services in Egypt was 12.0% in 2025, according to Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- What is the highest insurance and financial services recorded in Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 12.4% in 2020.
- What is the lowest insurance and financial services recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.7% in 1992.
- How does Egypt rank for insurance and financial services?
- Egypt ranks 36th out of 197 countries with data for 2025.
- Is insurance and financial services rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt data come from?
- The figures come from Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF), published as part of Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Financial services covers services related to financial intermediation, financial risk management, liquidity transformation or auxiliary financial activities. It also includes insurance and pension scheme services which are services related to providing life insurance and annuities, non-life insurance, reinsurance, pensions, standardised guarantees and auxiliary services to insurance, pension schemes, and standardised guarantee schemes. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service imports which are commercial services provided by non-residents to residents.