Egypt Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 73,323 Egypt companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Egypt company register data is filed under the Commercial Register Law No. 34 of 1976, with a dedicated Ultimate Beneficial Owner register added by Ministerial Decree No. 41 of 2020, requiring every registered entity to maintain its own UBO file naming any natural person who owns or controls 25% or more of its shares or voting rights. Its access basis is not published in verifiable form, and the decree itself does not define what counts as 'control' beyond direct ownership, leaving some ambiguity for indirect holdings. Companies must retain the UBO register throughout the entity's life and for five years after dissolution.
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Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Egypt, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Egypt
Egypt’s economy grew an estimated 4.7% in FY2025/26 per the IMF’s January 2026 World Economic Outlook Update (up from an October 2025 projection of 4.3% for calendar 2025), with the World Bank’s June 2026 Global Economic Prospects report similarly upgrading its forecast to 4.6%; GDP grew 5.3% in Q1 FY2025/26, the strongest quarterly rate in over three years, following full-year FY2024/25 growth of about 4.4% (Ministry of International Cooperation). Non-oil manufacturing, tourism, and telecommunications are the World Bank and IMF’s cited drivers, offsetting declines in Suez Canal activity and mining/extraction. Inflation tells a more complicated story: annual urban headline CPI (CAPMAS) stabilized at 12.3% in December 2025, then rose to 13.4% in February 2026, up from 11.9% in January — Egypt’s disinflation from the 2023-2024 crisis peak, when urban CPI hit 24.0% in January 2025, is real but has stalled and partly reversed in early 2026, not a smooth downward path. The Egyptian pound has undergone repeated, large devaluations: a 2016 devaluation of roughly 45%, a January 2023 devaluation from EGP 24.63 to EGP 30.8/USD, and most significantly a March 6, 2024 flotation that let the pound fall to around EGP 50.1/USD within days, cumulatively depreciating from EGP 8.85/USD in March 2016. Egypt has an active $8 billion, 46-month IMF Extended Fund Facility, expanded in March 2024 from an original $3 billion 2022 package, plus a $1.3 billion Resilience and Sustainability Facility; the IMF Executive Board completed the Seventh EFF review and Second RSF review on July 30, 2026. GDP per capita is best cited in the low-$4,000s (USD, current prices) for 2024/2025; a separate World Bank data-page figure of $3,085.8 billion for nominal GDP appears erroneous and inconsistent with other sourcing and should be disregarded.
Suez Canal revenue has been on a real, dramatic boom-bust-rebound cycle directly tied to Middle East security events: after a record $9.4 billion in FY2022/23, revenue fell 23% to $7.2 billion in FY2023/24 as Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, beginning late 2023 and linked to the Gaza war, forced vessels to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope, and calendar-2024 revenue collapsed further to roughly $4 billion. Recovery accelerated sharply in 2026: FY2025/26 revenue reached $4.67 billion (+23% year-over-year, reported June 30, 2026), and July 2026 monthly revenue hit $505 million, the highest since December 2023, as the Iran-Israel conflict’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and reduced Houthi activity pushed shipping traffic back toward Suez; the Suez Canal Authority guided to $5.8-6 billion for full 2026. On February 23, 2024, Egypt signed a $35 billion deal with the UAE’s ADQ to develop Ras El-Hekma on the northwest Mediterranean coast, the largest FDI deal in an urban development project in Egypt’s modern history, driving net FDI inflows of $46.6 billion in FY2024/25, more than six times the prior year, before normalizing to roughly $9 billion in H1 2025 calendar terms. Tourism delivered a genuine record year: Egypt welcomed nearly 19 million tourists in 2025 (+21% year-over-year), beating prior forecasts, with tourism revenue rising to $16.70 billion from $14.40 billion in 2024. Remittances from Egyptians working abroad hit a record $41.5 billion for full calendar 2025 (Central Bank of Egypt, +40.5% year-over-year), attributed chiefly to exchange-rate unification pulling flows back into the formal banking system after the 2024 float closed the parallel-market gap. Meanwhile Egypt’s natural gas production fell 16.7% in 2024 to 49.4 bcm, driven substantially by a roughly 30% decline at the Zohr field, flipping Egypt from LNG exporter to net importer with a record 8.92 million tons of LNG imported in 2025. The EU was Egypt’s largest trading partner in 2025 (24.6% of total trade), followed by Arab countries collectively (21%) and China as the largest single non-oil bilateral partner ($19.1 billion); Egypt ran a large trade deficit of roughly $49.6 billion in 2025, with exports of approximately $51.39 billion against imports of approximately $101 billion.
Egypt’s population passed 108 million on August 16, 2025 (CAPMAS), with the pace of population growth slowing somewhat, taking 287 days to add the most recent million versus 268 days for the prior million; unemployment stood at 6.3% for full-year 2025 (CAPMAS), though youth (15-29) unemployment rose to 16.8% in 2025 from 14.9% in 2024 despite the falling headline rate, with a stark gender gap, male youth unemployment 9.8% versus female youth unemployment 37.1%, 2024 figures. The most recent official poverty figure, a national rate of 29.7% from CAPMAS’s FY2019/20 survey, is now materially stale, predating the entire 2022-2024 devaluation and inflation shock, and no more recent official survey was located. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, in power since 2014 following the 2013 removal of President Morsi, continues to govern; parliamentary elections were held November 10-11, 2025. Independent human-rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, EuroMed Rights, and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, documented, as of their respective 2025 publications, restrictions on independent political organizing ahead of the November 2025 elections and the arbitrary detention of more than 100 individuals following online calls for protest over price hikes and power cuts — these are the organizations’ own characterizations, reported here with attribution rather than independently adjudicated. The Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza has intermittently closed and reopened tracking the Israel-Hamas conflict: Israeli forces closed Gaza-linked crossings around March 2, 2025 after the first ceasefire phase lapsed, a new ceasefire was reached October 9, 2025 in Sharm el-Sheikh with Egyptian, Qatari, US, and Turkish mediation, and Rafah reopened for limited traffic around February 2, 2026, though aid volumes remained below pre-war benchmarks even after reopening. On subsidy reform, Egypt raised the price of subsidized bread in June 2024 from 5 to 20 piasters per loaf, the first increase in 36 years, while pledging to keep the subsidy program, relied on by more than 62 million Egyptians, in place; fuel subsidies are being phased out under IMF guidance, with fuel prices rising at least 11.7% in April 2025.
Egypt company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
Based on CAPMAS’s Fifth Economic Census (2017 reference year, roughly 3.7 million economic establishments); figures are rounded and sum to approximately 100%. A newer Sixth Economic Census (2022-2023 reference period) found approximately 3.9 million establishments with the private sector accounting for 99.8% of the total, but a comparably granular size breakdown from that newer census was not located and should be sought directly from CAPMAS if a more current figure is required. Source: CAPMAS, Fifth Economic Census (2017 reference year).
Foreign-controlled entities
4.6% of Egyptian firms had at least 10% foreign ownership as of the World Bank/EBRD/EIB Enterprise Surveys Egypt 2020 country profile (fieldwork December 2019-April 2020, n=3,075 firms), with a breakdown by firm size of 4.5% of small firms, 4.2% of medium firms, and 6.9% of large firms — below the Middle East & North Africa regional average (6.5%) and well below the Lower Middle Income comparator average (12.4%). This figure predates Egypt’s 2022-2024 currency devaluations and the 2024 Ras El-Hekma FDI surge and may be materially outdated as a current indicator.
Who uses Egypt ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Egypt counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 3 Egypt entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many registered Egypt businesses does Zavia track?
Zavia holds 73,323 company records for Egypt, of which 73,271 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Can I look up the beneficial owner of a Egypt company?
Egypt company register data is filed under the Commercial Register Law No. 34 of 1976, with a dedicated Ultimate Beneficial Owner register added by Ministerial Decree No. 41 of 2020, requiring every registered entity to maintain its own UBO file naming any natural person who owns or controls 25% or more of its shares or voting rights. Its access basis is not published in verifiable form, and the decree itself does not define what counts as 'control' beyond direct ownership, leaving some ambiguity for indirect holdings. Companies must retain the UBO register throughout the entity's life and for five years after dissolution.
Is shareholder data available for Egypt companies on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 2 shareholder records for Egypt companies, with 18,757 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Who are the registered directors of Egypt companies, and is that searchable?
Yes. Zavia holds 74 officer and director records for Egypt companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Does Zavia track VAT registrations in Egypt?
Yes. Zavia holds 1 VAT records for Egypt companies, linked to the same registered entity as its company profile.
Is financial data available for Egypt companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 3 digitized financial reports for Egypt companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Is there a bulk or API option for Egypt company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Egypt, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Does Zavia have a deeper guide on Egypt company ownership?
Zavia's Egypt beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.