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Egypt
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How does Egypt compare to your home country on LGBTQ+ rights, democracy and women's rights?

Score overview — absolute values
LGBTQ+ rights
1.0 Critical
Democracy & press freedom
2.5 Critical
Women's rights
3.5 Weak
Rule of law
3.5 Weak
Prevention of child labour
~6.0 Mixed
Sources ↓
LGBTQ+ rights
1.0 / 10

Egypt scores notably below the global average on this dimension. Rights that might be taken for granted at home may be absent or actively restricted here.

For travellers

Take this dimension seriously when planning. Check current travel advisories from your home government and relevant human rights organisations.

Democracy & press freedom
2.5 / 10

Egypt scores notably below the global average on this dimension. Rights that might be taken for granted at home may be absent or actively restricted here.

For travellers

Take this dimension seriously when planning. Check current travel advisories from your home government and relevant human rights organisations.

Women's rights
3.5 / 10

Egypt scores notably below the global average on this dimension. Rights that might be taken for granted at home may be absent or actively restricted here. Abortion is legal only to save the mother's life or preserve her health.

For travellers

Take this dimension seriously when planning. Check current travel advisories from your home government and relevant human rights organisations.

Rule of law
3.5 / 10

Egypt scores notably below the global average on this dimension. Rights that might be taken for granted at home may be absent or actively restricted here.

For travellers

Take this dimension seriously when planning. Check current travel advisories from your home government and relevant human rights organisations.

Prevention of child labour
~6.0 / 10

In its 2024 review the US Department of Labor placed Egypt in the "Moderate Advancement" category — the second of four, meaning meaningful effort in some areas but not all. Read what that means before reading it as a verdict: it rates how hard a government worked in one year, not how many children are working. It comes in four steps rather than as a number, which is why we show it with a tilde — four tiers, four evenly spaced values, no false precision.

The same department keeps a second, separate list, of goods rather than governments, which names the products it has reason to believe are made with child or forced labour. It is public and searchable by country and product, and it is the more useful document if you want to know what your own shopping touches.

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Sources & further reading

Equaldex Equality Index LGBTQ+ rights — Equaldex Equality Index 10/100 (÷10): a Legal Index of 4 and a Public Opinion Index of 15. One source is now used for every country on Fair Away, so this score is comparable with your home country's. EIU Democracy Index Democracy & press freedom WEF Global Gender Gap Report Women's rights WJP Rule of Law Index Civil liberties & justice US ILAB, Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor 2024 Prevention of child labour — "Moderate Advancement", the second of four tiers, out of 131 countries assessed. ILAB publishes tiers rather than scores, so we map the four tiers to four evenly spaced values (8.0 / 6.0 / 4.0 / 2.0) and mark them with a ~.

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