CAIRO: Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said Thursday that according to its latest national survey the number of working children in Egypt have risen to 5.1 million. The survey included children between the ages of five to 17-years-old. General Abou Bakr el-Gendy, head of CAPMAS, said in a press conference to announce the statistics that 46 percent of working children are between the ages of 15 and 17 and that 4.87 million of those give their parents the money they earn. 21 percent of working children are female and 79 percent are male. He added that 120,000 of working children do not attend school and 487,000 have dropped out completely. El-Gendey added that the largest percentage of the children work in agriculture, where the rate of females is found to be higher, although he did not give a specific number. Egypt's population, according to CAPMAS, is 80,519,874, which makes the percentage of working children roughly 6.3 percent of the country's total population. BM