5 Pounds National Population Centre

Egypt's 1986 census — the administrative event behind this issue — was a politically charged undertaking. The government needed accurate data to manage one of the Arab world's fastest-growing populations, which had surpassed 50 million that year, and the National Population Centre was the institutional body coordinating that effort. Commemorative silver issues tied to statistical agencies are rare in any tradition; this one reflects how seriously Cairo was treating demographic pressure as a national policy problem.