Egypt is placed at the Intermediate stage in the 2025 release. National AI strategy: 2nd generation; dedicated governance bodies: 4; AI-relevant regulations: 5; data protection law: 2020.
- National AI strategy
- 2nd generation
- Dedicated AI governance bodies
- 4
- AI-relevant regulations
- 5
- Data protection law
- 2020
- International frameworks referenced
- 4
- OECD.AI registered initiatives
- 8
- Sovereign language-model programme
- National Arabic model (planned)
Index pillars
Indicators
Position among Arab League states with data
Oxford Insights AI readiness, 202559.10
UN E-Government Development Index, 2024rank 950.6699
Human Capital Index, 20240.6150
ITU Global Cybersecurity Index95.48
National Cyber Security Index57.14
Internet users, 2023 (% of population)72.69
AI publications, 2023669
Trends
AI readiness score
Human Capital Index
AI publications per year
Typology coding
- Governance type
- Centralised, ministerial
- Regulatory approach
- Phased, soft to hard
- Enforcement model
- Supervisory (MCIT)
- Sovereignty posture
- Active
- International alignment
- OECD adherent
- Cluster label (M3)
- MENA Institutional Leader
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Contact the LabCite this profile
Arab AI Governance Lab (2025). Egypt: country profile. https://arablab.ai/countries/egypt/ Data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MOVIFA
Sources: Oxford Insights; UN DESA; World Bank WDI; ITU; e-Governance Academy; OECD.AI; Lab coding (F1, M3).