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Egypt*

General Country Information
Capital: Cairo
Population: 80,471,869 (July 2010)
Form of Government: Military junta

Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone - main lines: 9.6 million (2009)
Telephone - mobile: 55.35 million (2010)
Internet hosts: 177,443 (2009)
Internet users: 11.414 million (2008)

Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.41
World Rank 2005/2006: 91

*The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) evaluates the opportunity, infrastructure and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) worldwide and was created by the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The DOI is based on a scale of 0-1, where 1 is ideal, and the World Rank is taken into consideration out of 181 countries, based on the DOI.

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