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Morocco

38,430,770

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+349.6K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+35.2%from 28.42M
Life expectancy75.5 years2024
Fertility rate2.21births per woman · 2024
Urban population63.1%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanLower middle income

A country at every age

How Morocco is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1425.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6466.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+8.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate16.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+10.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-56.25Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Morocco look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 43.44M in 2050—14.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202438.08M
  2. 205043.44M
  3. 210037.88M
Median age in 205037.4years
Births in 2050530.49Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050372.89Kduring the year
Life expectancy79.8years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196011.62M
  2. 197015.13M
  3. 198019.46M
  4. 199024.38M
  5. 200028.42M
  6. 201032.47M
  7. 202036.58M
  8. 202538.43M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/16/2026

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