A document issued by the Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, revealed that the legal population in Morocco reached a total of 36,828,330, according to the 2014 General Population and Housing Census.
The matter relates to the introductory note for the draft decree prepared by the Minister of the Interior, relating to the approval of the numbers specifying the legal population of the Kingdom, by determining the number of population at the level of the total national territory, as well as at the level of regions, prefectures, regions and communities.
This draft decree falls, according to the same document, within the framework of completing the final stage completed by the entitlement to complete the population and housing census in the Kingdom for the year 2024, which is to inventory and determine the final results of the census process conducted last September for the aforementioned census.
The general results of the census showed that the legal population in the Kingdom reached a total of 36,828,330 people on September 1 of this year. Thus, the population of the Kingdom since the General Population and Housing Census of 2014 was an increase of 2,980,088 people, or 48.80 percent. .
As for the total number of families that resulted from the census, it is determined at 9,275,038 families. This number, in turn, recorded a significant increase of 1,961,232 families, or a percentage equivalent to 26.82, compared to the number of families that were counted in 2014.
Regarding the number of foreigners residing in the Kingdom, the same source explains that their total number is determined at 148,152 people, recording an increase of 61,946 people, or an estimated rate of 71.86 percent, compared to the number of foreigners specified according to the 2014 census.
The introductory note revealed that the High Commission for Planning, after approving the aforementioned draft decree and publishing it in the Official Gazette of the Kingdom, will circulate the detailed results of the census and publish all data related to it in accordance with what is being done in this section.
