Omar Al-Muzain – Code ///
Today, Thursday, the Government Council approved draft Decree No. 2.24.1009 approving the numbers specifying the legal population in the Kingdom, presented by Abdel Wafi Laftit, Minister of the Interior.
This project falls within the framework of completing the final stage of 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 for the aforementioned census.
This draft decree aims to ratify 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.
According to the general results of the census process, the legal population in the Kingdom reached a total of 36,828,330 people on September 1st of the current year. Thus, since the General Population and Housing Census of 2014, the Kingdom’s population has witnessed an increase of 2,980,088 people, or an increase of 8.80% +.
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 rate equivalent to +26.82%, compared to the number of families that was counted in 2014.
Regarding the number of foreigners residing in the Kingdom, their total number is determined at 148,152 people, recording an increase of 61,946 people, or an estimated rate of 71.86% + compared to the number of foreigners specified according to the 2014 census.
