Egypt’s unemployment rate drops to 7.3% in Q2

Egypt’s unemployment rate eased to 7.3 percent in the second quarter of the year from 7.4 percent in the first quarter, state statistics agency CAPMAS said on Sunday.

The number of unemployed stood at 2.115 million out of a total workforce in the April-June period, from 2.155 million in the January-March period, CAPMAS said.