This statistic shows the biggest cities in Morocco in 2024. In 2024, approximately 3.22 million people lived in Casablanca, making it the biggest city in Morocco.

Morocco MA: Population in Largest City data was reported at 3,653,152.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 3,622,989.000 Person for 2016. Morocco MA: Population in Largest City data is updated yearly, averaging 2,596,373.500 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,653,152.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 966,796.000 Person in 1960. Morocco MA: Population in Largest City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Morocco – Table MA.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; ;

This statistic shows the degree of urbanization in Morocco from 2013 to 2023. Urbanization means the share of urban population in the total population of a country. In 2023, 65.12 percent of Morocco's total population lived in urban areas and cities. Urbanization in Morocco Like many countries around the world, Morocco is reporting growing urbanization figures, which means that an increasing number of Moroccans are moving to the cities and urban areas. In 2005, Morocco’s population was around 55.13 percent urban, however, over the course of ten years, the urban population had increased by 5 percent to 60.2 percent as of 2015. There are three major environmental zones in Morocco, and the majority of the population lives in the region which includes the coastal plains and plateaus. The desert and mountainous regions of the country are less populated. The largest city is Casablanca, which is located on the Atlantic Coast on the Chawiya Plain. Casablanca has about 3.3 million inhabitants. The country's capital, Rabat, is also locatzed on the Atlantic Coast, but much smaller with only about 600,000 inhabitants. The population of Morocco is growing at a faster rate than most developed nations, butthe growth rate is still significantly lower than that of the rest of Africa. Currently, Morocco has a population growth rate of around 1.39 percent, and the fertility rate is at around 2.5 children per woman. In total, Morocco has around 35 million inhabitants. Life expectancy is also slightly lower than average at around 74 years of age.

Population in largest city in Morocco was reported at 3950408 in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Morocco - Population in largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Morocco MA: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 16.511 % in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 16.738 % for 2016. Morocco MA: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 22.689 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 27.486 % in 1971 and a record low of 16.511 % in 2017. Morocco MA: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Morocco – Table MA.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; Weighted average;

Population in the largest city (% of urban population) in Morocco was reported at 15.8 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Morocco - Population in the largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

As of the first quarter of 2024, the Moroccan cities of Casablanca and Marrakech had the largest share of real estate asset transaction declines, standing at 23.2 and 28.4 percent, respectively. The only city that experienced a rise in the share of transactions was Fes.

In 2024, at **** percent, the city of Casablanca held the largest portion of the automotive market in Morocco, based on the number of sales. Rabat, the capital, followed with a share of almost ** percent, while Laayoune held only *** percent of the market.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

• Households
• Individuals
• Community

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The total number of households initially planned to be interviewed in the survey sample was 3,360. This number was selected based on the resources available, the length of the questionnaire, and the desire to complete the interview process within one calendar year. Due to non response, however, the number of households actually interviewed was 3,323. The sample is representative of the national population distribution between urban and rural areas, but is geographically stratified at the regional level rather than self-weighted, meaning that an equal number of households were chosen from each of seven economic regions (South, Tensift, Center, Center-South, Center-North, East and North-West). Thus the sample itself does not reflect the actual population distribution in Morocco nationwide. However, a system of weights assigned at the household level (calculated by the Moroccan Direction de la Statistique) yields results which are representative at the regional and national levels.

Sample Design: The sample for the 1990-91 MLSS was based on a master sample frame drawn in 1984 by the National Household Survey Unit of the Moroccan Direction de la Statistique (Dispositif National d'Enquêtes auprès des Ménages, Direction de la Statistique). The sample frame was in turn based on the 1982 Moroccan Population Census (Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat de 1982). This master sample frame contains a total of 968 primary sampling units (Unités Primaires, UP). After stratification into 7 economic regions, 140 of the 968 primary sampling units (Ups) were selected at random for the survey, 20 from each economic region.

At this stage the maps for each selected UP were updated, and three secondary sampling units (Unité Secondaire, US) were then selected from each UP according to a 'simple, random, equal probabilities' method of sampling.

Each selected US was enumerated, providing a listing of all households located within its boundaries. Eight households (24 per UP) were then chosen from each US according to random, equal probabilities. The end result is a stratified sample with 20 UPs in each of 7 economic regions. The total number of households in the sample frame is 3,360 (7 regions x 20 UPs x 3 USs x 8 households = 3,360 households). The total number of UPs is 140 (7 x 20), and the total number of USs is 420 (7 x 20 x 3).

Rural vs. Urban Classification: Of the total 420 USs in the sample, about half were rural. Within each secondary sampling units, there are usually several douars (villages). Douars are classified as either 'grouped' or 'dispersed' (see question 2 in section I of douar questionnaire). Households within the same grouped douar are very close to each other, but households within the same dispersed douar may be very far (as much as 3-5 kilometers) apart. Urban secondary sampling units, and even primary sampling units, are classified as belonging to either a "centre" (town) or a "quartier" (a section of a large city).

The definition of urban and rural areas is drawn from the official Moroccan classification system (according to the 1982 census). The largest cities are 'municipalities', after which come 'centres autonomes' and finally the smallest urban entities, 'centres délimités'. The quartier questionnaire was administered only in municipalities, while the centre questionnaire was administered in both the centres autonomes and centres délimités. Finally, areas which fall outside of all three of these official urban classifications were reclassified as urban if there was a centralized electricity or piped water system. Such reclassified areas are known as 'petite centres', and the centre questionnaire (as opposed to the douar questionnaire) was administered to them.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Household Questionnaire: The household questionnaire contains two parts divided into a total of 24 sections. Parts I and II were administered to each household in two separate visits, with approximately two weeks in between the first and second visit. The survey covers all household members, defined to include all those individuals for whom the household is their primary residence, and who are economically dependent on the household. Household members also include: individuals who are not physically present but whose absence has been for less than one month (or in the case of those hospitalized, less than six months), lodgers who share at least one meal with the household, and servants who reside at and share meals with the household. The head of household is defined as that individual recognized as the head by the other household members, and is usually the individual with the greatest responsibility for income generation and the management of household expenditures. The household head was asked to respond to questions on general household information, or to indicate which household member should most appropriately respond to a particular question. If the household head was not available, another member able to provide information on household affairs was asked to answer the questions. In most sections of the questionnaire each individual was asked to respond for himself or herself except that parents were allowed to respond for young children.

Household Literacy Module The literacy module was administered to two-thirds of all households surveyed (i.e. in every 2 of the 3 secondary sampling units within each primary sampling unit), and thus covered about 2,240 households. The survey was administered to all persons in the household aged 9 to 69, with the exception of those who had passed the baccalauréat (French high school equivalency test) or with higher education. In the questionnaire, individuals are first asked to rate themselves according to their writing skills in Arabic and French.

Community Questionnaires: Community questionnaires were administered in all 140 primary sampling units (Unités Primaires, UPs). These questionnaires are designed to capture information on the characteristics of the community which influence the living standards of all households in the area. These surveys were conducted by the supervisors (contrôleurs). Depending on whether or not the community was located within a large urban area (quartier), a small urban area (centre), or a rural area (douar), three slightly different community questionnaires were administered. These questionnaires provide information on general housing characteristics, transportation, health, sanitation and education services as well as other general services which might be available such as police, red cross, sports facilities, library, etc. A list of informants from whom the information was obtained is also provided.

Price Questionnaire: The price questionnaire was administered by the supervisor (contrôleur) in each of the secondary sampling units covered by the survey. This module provides information on regional price levels so that nominal price values collected in the household survey can be appropriately deflated according to actual prices prevailing in the area. Prices were collected for each of 74 consumption items (57 food and 17 non - food items).

Dispensary (Health) Questionnaire: In theory this questionnaire was supposed to be administered to all dispensaries (health centers) located in each primary sampling unit. But in practice, only the dispensaries closest to the households surveyed were chosen to be interviewed. The dispensary data are not representative at a regional or national level, and thus the overall characteristics of health care facilities cannot be assessed. Again, this survey was administered by the supervisors (contrôleurs).

The questionnaire provides information on the health services offered by each dispensary and associated costs; type of trained personnel, equipment and medicines which are on-hand; and, the types of vaccinations offered.

The dataset of ratios (cost by square meter) that we elaborated for the estimation of the cost generated by the integration of insulation materials. We focused on four elements of the building envelope. The data gathered consists of the cost of different building materials used in the main cities of the Northern region of Morocco: It concerns a basket of building materials made up of 33 items for the structural work and 87 items for the finishing work. Based on these secondary data, we performed our own analysis to come up with ratios (cost by square meter) that take into account the integration of building insulation materials to 4 different parts of the building’s envelope, namely: the external walls, the windows, the roof, and the floor

Abstract

In order to develop various methods of comparable data collection on health and health system responsiveness WHO started a scientific survey study in 2000-2001. This study has used a common survey instrument in nationally representative populations with modular structure for assessing health of indviduals in various domains, health system responsiveness, household health care expenditures, and additional modules in other areas such as adult mortality and health state valuations.

The health module of the survey instrument was based on selected domains of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and was developed after a rigorous scientific review of various existing assessment instruments. The responsiveness module has been the result of ongoing work over the last 2 years that has involved international consultations with experts and key informants and has been informed by the scientific literature and pilot studies.

Questions on household expenditure and proportionate expenditure on health have been borrowed from existing surveys. The survey instrument has been developed in multiple languages using cognitive interviews and cultural applicability tests, stringent psychometric tests for reliability (i.e. test-retest reliability to demonstrate the stability of application) and most importantly, utilizing novel psychometric techniques for cross-population comparability.

The study was carried out in 61 countries completing 71 surveys because two different modes were intentionally used for comparison purposes in 10 countries. Surveys were conducted in different modes of in- person household 90 minute interviews in 14 countries; brief face-to-face interviews in 27 countries and computerized telephone interviews in 2 countries; and postal surveys in 28 countries. All samples were selected from nationally representative sampling frames with a known probability so as to make estimates based on general population parameters.

The survey study tested novel techniques to control the reporting bias between different groups of people in different cultures or demographic groups ( i.e. differential item functioning) so as to produce comparable estimates across cultures and groups. To achieve comparability, the selfreports of individuals of their own health were calibrated against well-known performance tests (i.e. self-report vision was measured against standard Snellen's visual acuity test) or against short descriptions in vignettes that marked known anchor points of difficulty (e.g. people with different levels of mobility such as a paraplegic person or an athlete who runs 4 km each day) so as to adjust the responses for comparability . The same method was also used for self-reports of individuals assessing responsiveness of their health systems where vignettes on different responsiveness domains describing different levels of responsiveness were used to calibrate the individual responses.

This data are useful in their own right to standardize indicators for different domains of health (such as cognition, mobility, self care, affect, usual activities, pain, social participation, etc.) but also provide a better measurement basis for assessing health of the populations in a comparable manner. The data from the surveys can be fed into composite measures such as "Healthy Life Expectancy" and improve the empirical data input for health information systems in different regions of the world. Data from the surveys were also useful to improve the measurement of the responsiveness of different health systems to the legitimate expectations of the population.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The sample was a multi-stage stratified random sampling described as follows. Twenty-two cities were selected following the main structure of Morocco composed of 5 strata and seven areas.

Once the stratum was defined, the city was chosen at random except for Casablanca and Rabat which were chosen intentionally due to their importance. At the second stage, a representative rural town from each area was chosen at random. The third stage consisted of selecting city quarters randomly. The fourth stage was the household selection according to the .step method. which meant approaching every third house.

In the case of a building, the interviewers were asked to begin from the top floor, to choose only one apartment on each floor and go downstairs every other floor with a maximum of two interviews per building. The last stage was the respondent.s selection based on the Kish Method.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Cleaning operations

Data Coding At each site the data was coded by investigators to indicate the respondent status and the selection of the modules for each respondent within the survey design. After the interview was edited by the supervisor and considered adequate it was entered locally.

Data Entry Program A data entry program was developed in WHO specifically for the survey study and provided to the sites. It was developed using a database program called the I-Shell (short for Interview Shell), a tool designed for easy development of computerized questionnaires and data entry (34). This program allows for easy data cleaning and processing.

The data entry program checked for inconsistencies and validated the entries in each field by checking for valid response categories and range checks. For example, the program didn’t accept an age greater than 120. For almost all of the variables there existed a range or a list of possible values that the program checked for.

In addition, the data was entered twice to capture other data entry errors. The data entry program was able to warn the user whenever a value that did not match the first entry was entered at the second data entry. In this case the program asked the user to resolve the conflict by choosing either the 1st or the 2nd data entry value to be able to continue. After the second data entry was completed successfully, the data entry program placed a mark in the database in order to enable the checking of whether this process had been completed for each and every case.

Data Transfer The data entry program was capable of exporting the data that was entered into one compressed database file which could be easily sent to WHO using email attachments or a file transfer program onto a secure server no matter how many cases were in the file. The sites were allowed the use of as many computers and as many data entry personnel as they wanted. Each computer used for this purpose produced one file and they were merged once they were delivered to WHO with the help of other programs that were built for automating the process. The sites sent the data periodically as they collected it enabling the checking procedures and preliminary analyses in the early stages of the data collection.

Data quality checks Once the data was received it was analyzed for missing information, invalid responses and representativeness. Inconsistencies were also noted and reported back to sites.

Data Cleaning and Feedback After receipt of cleaned data from sites, another program was run to check for missing information, incorrect information (e.g. wrong use of center codes), duplicated data, etc. The output of this program was fed back to sites regularly. Mainly, this consisted of cases with duplicate IDs, duplicate cases (where the data for two respondents with different IDs were identical), wrong country codes, missing age, sex, education and some other important variables.

In 2016, the city of Beni Mellal in Morocco generated around 530,000 metric tons of municipal solid waste (MSW), which is higher compared to Rabat and Tangier, generating approximately 237,000 and 350,000 metric tons, respectively. Managing solid waste is one of the main environment-related threats in Morocco. Overall, reasons such as inadequate infrastructure and insufficient funding for solid waste management may account for the improper disposal of solid waste in the country.

In 2024, Renault Group produced a total of 413,614 vehicles in both Tangier and Casablanca, two of the biggest cities in Morocco. Tangier's plant accounted for the majority of the production, with 312,381 vehicles, while the SOMACA plant hit the 100,000 vehicle production mark for the first time in its history.

In 2023, at **** percent, city cars held the largest portion of the passenger vehicle market in Morocco. SUVs and four-by-four vehicles followed with a **** percent market share. On the other hand, luxury sedans, micro city cars, and sports cars all had a share of *** percent, each.

In 2022, Casablanca, the largest city in Morocco, registered a crime index of 55.59 points. This meant that, at the said date, crime in the city was on a moderate level. Compared to 2016, when the level of crime in the country peaked, it decreased by approximately eight percent. Overall, at the national level, Morocco achieved a crime index score of 49.1 points.

Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, ranked as the most expensive city to live in Africa as of 2024, considering consumer goods prices. The Ethiopian capital obtained an index score of 46.7, followed by Harare, in Zimbabwe, with 37.4. Morocco and South Africa were the countries with the most representatives among the 15 cities with the highest cost of living in Africa.

As recorded by the source, Moroccans ranked as the foreign nationality with more residents in Spain in 2023, closely followed by Romanians. After years of losing its foreign population, Spain’s immigration figures started to pick up in 2015, with the number of people that moved to the Mediterranean country surpassing the number of foreigners that decided to leave.

A matter of balance The net migration rate of Spain changed its course mainly due to the great inflow of foreigners that move to reside in the Mediterranean country. Spain’s immigration flow slowed down after the 2008 financial crisis, albeit the number of foreigners that opted to change their residence saw a significant growth in the last years. In 2022, Colombians ranked first as the foreign nationality that most relocated to Spain, distantly followed by Moroccans and Ukranians.

Spain does not have the highest number of immigrants in Europe In recent years, the European Union confronted a rising number of refugees arriving from the Middle East. Migration figures show that Germany accommodated approximately 15 million foreign-born citizens, ranking it as the country that most hosted immigrants in Europe in 2022. By comparison, Spain’s foreign population stood slightly over seven million, positioning the Western Mediterranean country third on the European list of foreign-born population. Unfortunately, thousands of persons have died ore gone missing trying to reach Spanish territory, as more and more irregular migrants opt to use dangerous maritime routes to arrive at Southern Europe from Africa's coasts.