Egypt - Migration In the early 1960s, most of the Greek
population emigrated as the result of the government's
nationalization measures; nearly all Jews, who formed less than
0.3% of the population in 1966, left the country after the 1967
war with Israel. With the completion of the Aswan High Dam in
1970, up to 100,000 Nubian tribesmen were moved from flooded
parts of the upper Nile and resettled in the plain downstream.
During the 1970s there was significant internal migration from
rural to urban areas. During the 1970s and first half of the
1980s, more than 3 million workers took jobs in other countries.
In 1992 some 2,850,000 Egyptians were living abroad, including
about 1 million in Libya and 850,000 in Saudi Arabia. The
Egyptian government estimates that there are 3–5 million
Sudanese refugees, and some have lived in Egypt for over 30
years. In 2000 there were 169,000 migrants living in Egypt. In
2000, the net migration rate was -1.2 migrants per 1,000
population. The government views the immigration lev