The average Egyptian family spends close to half of their income on food and drink according to a government statistical agency. The Central Agency for Public Mobilization And Statistics (CAMPAS) announced that the average Egyptian family spends 44 percent of their gross income on food and drink. The bottom fifth of incomes spent a majority of their income (51.7 percent) on food while the top fifth spent 36.3 percent. Meat made up the largest expenditure of food at 26.6 percent of urban food budgets and 25.2 percent of rural food spending. The proportion spent on food and drink declined with education, regardless of where the family lived. 31.8 percent of university educated urban families' incomes in cities went towards sustenance compare to 51.3 percent for college graduates in the countryside.
