Cost of Living inAl Fayyum, Egypt
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Purchasing Power vs. United States
Based on GDP per capita (PPP). Egypt: $16,798/capita.
How Far Your Money Goes
Prices are 78% lower than the global benchmark (New York City = 100).
Using the country-level NYC comparison for now. We do not have a defensible city-level aggregate cost index for this city yet.
Income Category
Happiness
4.0 / 10
#125 globally
GDP per Capita
City Population
Child Education
Public-school quality, expat access, instruction language, and homeschool legality for relocating families.
Public schools
Public-schooling rules are set nationally for Egypt; Al Fayyum-specific enrollment notes are still being verified.
Quality
Limited public-school fit
Expat access
Possible, rarely the expat path
hardInstruction
Arabic
Language fit is more manageable.
PISA / outcomes
Qualitative only
Using curated quality notes for now.
Why this quality rating
Egypt's public-school system is not the route most internationally mobile families choose when they have private or international alternatives.
Why the expat-access rating looks like this
Resident access can exist, but Arabic-medium instruction, crowding, and uneven quality make the public route a hard sell for most expat families.
๐ Homeschooling
Legal with MOE supervisionEgypt allows homeschooling under certain conditions with Ministry of Education oversight. Students must be enrolled in a school for official exams. The process is bureaucratic. Many expat families in Cairo use international schools instead. American and British school options are extensive.
Homeschool legality in Egypt โ check current regulations before committing.
Source: User-curated family relocation research (initial seed) (2026-04-14)
Childcare & Domestic Help
Estimate-only country fallback for the family-support costs we track in Egypt.
Full-time nanny (5 days)
$145-$210
Estimate-only country fallback
Live-in / 24-7 nanny
$190-$260
Estimate-only country fallback
Source: curated family relocation research(derived country fallback)
Getting Around
Neighborhood mobility profiles are rolling out city by city.Al Fayyum is still missing a verified walkability, transit, airport, and rideshare profile.
Healthcare
System strength, outcome signals, facility coverage, and self-pay visibility in Egypt.
Method: country metrics come from public system indicators, facility coverage reflects mapped providers we can inventory, direct pricing only reflects observed self-pay pages, and relative care cost can fall back to broad cost-of-living healthcare indices. Sparse pricing does not imply sparse healthcare availability.
Healthcare system
LimitedMaternal mortality is low help, but doctor staffing is lighter and hospital capacity looks tighter.
Public care
LimitedPublic funding looks lighter, patients still shoulder a meaningful share of costs, and country-level outcomes are weaker weigh on this rating.
Private care
LimitedA clearly private facility base help, but the tracked private-style network still looks thin and self-pay pricing transparency is still sparse.
UHC coverage
71/100
2023
Physicians
0.67/1k
2020
Hospital beds
1.06/1k
2021
Out of pocket
57%
2023
Outcome signals
Life expectancy
71.8 yrs
2024
Maternal mortality
17/100k
2023
Neonatal mortality
13.9/1k
2024
International patient readiness
LimitedA visible private hospital base help, but price transparency is still sparse and headline outcomes are less reassuring.
Pricing transparency
LimitedPublished self-pay prices are scarce and few facilities expose web pages we can verify weigh on this rating.
Facility coverage
Self-pay pricing visibility
No verified self-pay prices are published for the tracked facilities in Egypt yet.
This usually reflects low online price transparency rather than a lack of healthcare providers.
Notable facilities
System metrics: World Bank WDI ยท Updated 2026-06-01
Safety & Governance
Street Safety
Source: Numbeo where a city row is matched; otherwise World Bank WGI and country-level safety context.
Political Stability
World Bank WGI scale: -2.5 to +2.5.
Wages by Sector
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2024 annual wages in Al Fayyum, Egypt ยท Source: CAPMAS (region-adjusted)
Price Comparison vs. US
Visa Information (US passport)
Short-stay entry
US passport holders can obtain a visa on arrival.
Quick comparison FAQ
Structured from the deltas already shown on this page โ no invented facts, no extra data sources.
How far does your money go in Al Fayyum compared with the US?
Your money goes about 8.4x further in Al Fayyum than in the US, based on the current PPP estimate. We are using the country-level cost index for Egypt here because a defensible city-level aggregate index is not available yet.
Is Al Fayyum cheaper or more expensive overall than New York City?
Al Fayyum is cheaper overall than New York City โ overall living costs are about 78% cheaper than the global benchmark (New York City) for Al Fayyum. We are using the country-level cost index for Egypt here because a defensible city-level aggregate index is not available yet.
How does rent in Al Fayyum compare with New York City?
Rent in Al Fayyum is about 96% cheaper than the global benchmark (New York City). We are using the country-level cost index for Egypt here because a defensible city-level aggregate index is not available yet.
How expensive are groceries and restaurants in Al Fayyum?
Groceries in Al Fayyum are about 78% cheaper than the global benchmark (New York City), and restaurant prices are about 80% cheaper than the same benchmark. We are using the country-level cost index for Egypt here because a defensible city-level aggregate index is not available yet.
About Al Fayyum
Al Fayyum sits in a fertile depression about 100 kilometers southwest of Cairo, Egypt, drawing water from a Nile-fed channel that has supported intensive agriculture since pharaonic times. The city of roughly 519,000 anchors a governorate known for citrus, dates, olives, and the nearby Lake Qarun and Wadi El Rayan protected areas. The climate is hot desert with mild winters and almost no rainfall, and summer highs routinely exceed 38 Celsius. Relocators are rare outside development workers, archaeologists, and Arabic students; the city has minimal English-language infrastructure, conservative social norms typical of Upper Egypt, and limited international healthcare options. Road and minibus links to Cairo are frequent but slow, and there is no airport of its own.
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