How is the Egyptian National ID structured?

The 14 digits are a century marker (2 for 1900–1999, 3 for 2000–2099), date of birth as YYMMDD, a 2-digit governorate code, a 4-digit birth-order serial whose last digit encodes gender (odd = male, even = female), and a final check digit.

Why is the check digit not verified?

Egypt has not published an official check-digit algorithm for the 14th digit. This tool therefore decodes the documented structure and validates the embedded date and century, but it cannot confirm the final check digit.

Is my National ID sent anywhere?

No. The decoder is privacy-first. All processing happens locally in your browser with no network requests — your National ID never leaves your device and is never checked against any government database.

How do I find my date of birth in my National ID?

The first digit is the century (2 = 1900s, 3 = 2000s) and digits 2 to 7 are the date as YYMMDD. So 2 90 01 01 means 1 January 1990, and 3 05 12 31 means 31 December 2005.

Which digit shows gender in the Egyptian National ID?

The 13th digit, the last of the four-digit serial block, encodes gender. An odd value means male and an even value means female. The tool reads this digit automatically and labels it in English and Arabic.

What do the governorate codes mean?

Digits 8 and 9 are a two-digit governorate-of-birth code — for example 01 Cairo, 02 Alexandria, 21 Giza, 88 born abroad. The tool maps the code to the governorate name; an unknown code is flagged as possibly invalid.

Why does the tool not verify the 14th check digit?

Egypt has never published an official algorithm for the 14th check digit, so no tool can verify it reliably. This decoder therefore validates only the embedded date and the century marker.

Can a National ID with a valid structure still be fake?

Yes. A structurally valid number simply means the date, century and governorate fields are plausible. It does not prove the number was issued to a real person — only Egypt's civil registry can confirm that, and this tool never contacts it.

Egypt National ID Decoder — Date of Birth, Governorate & Gender

Egypt National ID decoder

Egypt’s 14-digit National ID (الرقم القومي) is a structured number, not a random sequence. Every digit block carries meaning, which is why a person’s date of birth, place of birth and gender can be read straight from the card. This decoder breaks the number into its parts and labels each one in both English and Arabic.

How it works

The 14 digits follow a fixed layout: [C][YYMMDD][GG][SSSG][V].

Position	Field	Meaning
1	Century marker	2 = born 1900–1999, 3 = born 2000–2099
2–7	Date of birth	Two-digit year, month, day (YYMMDD)
8–9	Governorate	Code for the governorate of birth
10–13	Serial	Birth-order serial; the 13th digit’s parity gives gender (odd = male, even = female)
14	Check digit	Egypt’s algorithm is unpublished, so this is not verified

The tool reconstructs the full year from the century marker, validates the date, maps the governorate code to a name, and reads the gender from the parity of the 13th digit.

Example

For 2 90 01 01 12 3456 7, the century marker 2 gives 1900s, so the date of birth is 1 January 1990. Governorate 12 is Dakahlia. The 13th digit is 6 (even) → Female. The decoder shows the full breakdown instantly.

Privacy-first: everything runs in your browser with no network requests. The decoder only interprets the structure — it never checks the number against any government database.