Table 1.
Demographic and urban/rural evolution of the Moroccan population according to general censuses from 1960 to 2004 and estimation for 2011 [1]
|
Year of |
Population (millions) |
Annual growth rate |
Mean age at first marriage (years) |
|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
census |
Urban |
(%) |
Rural |
(%) |
Total |
|
Urban |
Rural |
National |
|||||
| (RGPH) | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||||||||
| 1960 |
3.4 |
(29) |
8.2 |
(71) |
11.6 |
|
24.4 |
17.5 |
23.8 |
17.2 |
24.0 |
17.5 |
||
| 1971 |
5.4 |
(35) |
9.9 |
(65) |
15.3 |
2.8% |
26.0 |
21.0 |
24.0 |
18.5 |
25.0 |
19.3 |
||
| 1982 |
8.7 |
(43) |
11.7 |
(57) |
20.4 |
2.6% |
28.5 |
24.0 |
25.6 |
21.0 |
27.2 |
22.3 |
||
| 1994 |
13.4 |
(51) |
12.7 |
(49) |
26.1 |
2.1% |
31.2 |
26.9 |
28.3 |
24.2 |
30.0 |
25.8 |
||
| 2004 |
16.5 |
(55) |
13.4 |
(45) |
29.9 |
1.4% |
32.2 |
27.1 |
29.5 |
25.5 |
31.2 |
26.3 |
||
| 2011 | 18.5 | (58) | 13.4 | (42) | 31.9 | 1.0% | 32.5 | 27.4 | 30.0 | 25.6 | 31.4 | 26.3 | ||