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According to the results of the general population and housing census which was carried out between September 2nd and 20th, 2004, the population of Morocco reached 29.891.708 inhabitants, including 29.840.273 Moroccans and 51.435 foreigners. That is to say a 14,6 % progress in comparison to 1994.
Regardless of its geographic localization on the national territory, the population comprises 16.463.634 city-dwellers against 13.428.074 countrymen, i.e. an urbanization rate amounting to 55,1 %. The annual average rate of demographic growth is 1,4 % against 2,1 % between 1982 and 1994.Around the third of the population is concentrated in the regions of the Great Casablanca (3,6 million), |
Souss-Massa-Draa (3,1 million) and Marrakesh-Tensift-Al Haouz (3,1 million). The rest of the population is distributed according to proportions varying between 0,3 % in Oued Eddahab-Lagouira and 8,3 % in Tangier-Tetouan.
You can get the results of the last census from the site of the High Planning Commission.
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