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Egypt's Revolution has cost the country, up to September, US$9.79 billion, according to a report issued by consultancy group Geopolicity. Titled "The cost of the Arab spring & Roadmap for G20/UN support", the report shows results of a costing exercise undertaken by Geopolicity, based on data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It accounts for the impact of productivity losses on GDP and public finance, but excludes losses to human life, infrastructure damage and business and foreign direct investment losses. The near 10 billion dollars shed by Egypt are divided among the $4.27 billion cost to GDP and $5.52 billion in lost public finances.

Soft Loans JAPAN extended concessional loans to Egypt in order to assist Egypt to implement large-scale economic infrastructure projects such as Al-Dekheila Integrated Steel Mill and the Suez Canal Expansion Project. Since 1991, Japan has stopped extending new loans because of the debt rescheduling for Egypt, but new three candidate projects were formally applied for the government of Egypt to Japan in 1999.