On Thursday, the government approved a draft decree related to approving the numbers specifying the legal population in the Kingdom. This was in response to the findings of the General Population and Housing Census, which was supervised by the High Commission for Planning over the course of last September.
According to the same legal text, “the legal population of the Kingdom amounts, as of September 1st of the current year, to a total of 36,828,330 people; Thus, since the General Population and Housing Census of 2014, the Kingdom’s population has increased by 2,980,088 people, an increase of 8.80, or one hundred.”
The same reference indicated that “as for the total number of families that resulted from the census process, it is determined at 9,275,038 families.” This number, in turn, recorded a significant increase of 1,961,232 families, or a rate equivalent to 26.82 percent compared to the number of families that were counted in 2014.”
“With regard to the number of foreigners residing in the Kingdom, their total number is determined at 148,152 people; This recorded an increase of 61,946 people, an increase estimated at 71.86 percent compared to the number of foreigners determined according to the 2014 census,” confirmed the same legal text bearing the signature of Abdel Wafi Laftit, Minister of the Interior.
The same document pointed out that the government’s approval of the draft decree related to approving the numbers specifying the legal population in the Kingdom “falls within the framework of completing the last stage that was completed by the special 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, according to the aforementioned census.
According to the same source, it is expected that “the High Commission for Planning will circulate the detailed results of the census and publish all data related to it in accordance with what is expected to be done in this section, after publishing this decree in the Official Gazette.”
