29th December 1927 - Statistical Congress, Cairo.  Photogravure by the Survey Department, Cairo.  Usage valid until 16 March 1928.

The original sketch for a set of three stamps was submitted to the Ministry of Finance in August 1927. The subject was a statue of Amenhotep, a photo of which was supplied by the Cairo Museum.

The first census was conducted in 1800 at the time of Muhammad Ali Pasha. The population numbered 2.5 million at that time, but reached 4.5 million by the time of the 1850 statistical census, and 6.3 million in 1882. Egypt had, by then, regulated a periodical system that required the conducting of a census every ten years. Thus, this system was decennial from 1857 up to 1947.