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Egypt is an independent sovereign state. The British protectorate, declared on 18 Dec., 1914, terminated on 28 Feb., 1922, and the Sultan was proclaimed king on 15 March, 1922.
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Statistical Information.—The Statistical Department, attached to the Ministry of Finance and Economy (15, Sharia Mansour, Cairo) was formed in 1905; Director-General.—Hamed El-S. Azmy. Previously, various government departments had their own statistical sections. Estimates of population were made in 1800, 1821 and 1846; the first census took place in 1873. Among the publications of the Statistical Departments are the following:—
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Steinberg, S.H. (1956). Egypt. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270855_25
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