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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 rinance and Economy (15, Sharia Mansonr, 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:—
Annuaire Statistique (Arabic and French).
Annual Return of Shipping (Arabic and English).
Monthly Summary, and Annual Statement of Foreign Trade (Arabic and English).
Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural and Economic Statistics (Arabic and English).
Le Canal de Suez, published every ten days. Paris. Returns of Shipping and Tonnage. London. Annual.
The Egyptian Almanac. Annual.
Les Aetes de Montreux, (Abolition des Capitulations en Egypte.) Annotés d’après les Procès-Verbaux des Séances et les notes personelles des auteurs. Paris, 1937.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1955). Egypt. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman's Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270848_55
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