Morocco’s population amounts to around 37.8 million inhabitants in 2023. The country is among the
on the African continent and has the third largest number of inhabitants in North Africa after Egypt and Algeria. In 2032, over 7.6 million people lived in Casablanca-Settat, the
in the country. The population of Morocco has been increasing annually in recent years, registering a
of 1.02 percent in 2022.
Declining births and mortality
In the Kingdom of Morocco, the
fertility rate reached 2.4-3 children per woman in 2022. The rate refers to the number of children a woman would give birth to in her lifetime if she shows age-specific fertility rates and survives through her childbearing years. As fertility is not particularly high, the total
number of births in the country has declined in recent years, falling from around 690,000 in 2017 to 640,000 in 2022. At the same time, the
crude death rate in Morocco has declined gradually between 2012 and 2018 before increasing during 2020 and 2021 as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Growing number of households
The
number of households in Morocco was forecast at 8.8 million in 2022, after constantly increasing since 2010. Reflecting the degree of urbanization in the country, the number of urban households was higher, as it amounted to approximately 6.2 million compared to 2.7 million rural households. In 2022, families in Morocco had an
average size of four members and tended to be larger in urban areas rather than in rural communities. In general, family demographics in Morocco have evolved in recent years.
Marriages declined from around 280,000 to 252,000 between 2018 and 2022, respectively. In contrast, the
number of divorces has been on the rise, reaching a total of 135,724 in 2021.
Decreasing poverty levels
The poverty situation is not particularly critical in Morocco, which has the lowest
poverty rate in North Africa. In 2023, the poverty headcount ratio was projected at 2.65 percent, which means that the said share of people lived below the national poverty line. The
poverty rate has been on the rise recently. For instance, in 2024, around six percent of the population was considered poor. Moreover, the
Gini index, which measures the degree of income inequality on a scale from zero (total equality) to one (complete inequality), stood at 0.39 points in Morocco in 2023.
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