Morocco 
Facts
Population:
30,645,305 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
34.39% (male 5,368,784; female 5,170,891)
15-64 years:
60.93% (male 9,270,095; female 9,402,561)
65 years and over:
4.68% (male 646,567; female 786,407) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.71% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
24.16 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
5.94 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-1.15 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.82 male(s)/female
total population:
1 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
48.11 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
69.43 years
male:
67.2 years
female:
71.76 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
3.05 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.03% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Nationality:
noun:
Moroccan(s)
adjective:
Moroccan
Ethnic groups:
Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2%
Religions:
Muslim 98.7%, Christian 1.1%, Jewish 0.2%
Languages:
Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often the language of business, government, and diplomacy
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
43.7%
male:
56.6%
female:
31% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $105 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
0.8% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $3,500 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
15%
industry:
33%
services:
52% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line:
19% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.6%
highest 10%:
30.9% (1998-99)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
11 million (1997 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 50%, services 35%, industry 15% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate:
23% (1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$9.6 billion
expenditures:
$8.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $2.1 billion (2001 est.)
Industries:
phosphate rock mining and processing, food processing, leather goods, textiles, construction, tourism
Industrial production growth rate:
0.5% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production:
13.695 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
89.19%
hydro:
10.81%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
13.441 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
705 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
barley, wheat, citrus, wine, vegetables, olives; livestock
Exports:
$7.6 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
phosphates and fertilizers, food and beverages, minerals
Exports - partners:
France 35%, Spain 9%, UK 8%, Germany 7%, US 5% (1999)
Imports:
$12.2 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities:
semiprocessed goods, machinery and equipment, food and beverages, consumer goods, fuel
Imports - partners:
France 32%, Spain 12%, Italy 7%, Germany 6%, UK 6% (1999)
Debt - external:
$18.4 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$565.6 million (1995)
Currency:
Moroccan dirham (MAD)
Currency code:
MAD
Exchange rates:
Moroccan dirhams per US dollar - 10.590 (January 2001), 10.626 (2000), 9.804 (1999), 9.604 (1998), 9.527 (1997), 8.716 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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Demain
(Independent weekly, investigative reporting), Casablanca
(Progressive women's magazine), Casablanca
http://www.femmesdumaroc.ma
Finances News
(Financial weekly), Casablanca
(Independent financial weekly), Casablanca
http://www.lanouvelletribune.press.ma
La Vérité
(Independent weekly),
(Premier financial weekly), Casablanca
http://www.marocnet.net.ma/vieeco/
Le Journal de Tanger
(Weekly newspaper), Tangiers
Morocco in the News
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In Morocco on a 2004 Fulbright fellowship to research hip-hop, Josh Asen, then 24, impulsively abandoned the idea of writing a paper—too dry—and decided to make a film instead.
The current uprising has continued for over a year now, during which time there has been an increase of vocal disagreement with the presence of Morocco in Western Sahara.
“The beatings and insults meted out to the Sub-Saharans in Melilla are something more radical and frightening than racism: they are the manifestation of a belligerent and potentially homicidal anti-humanism.”
The bombings in Casablanca on May 16, 2003, and in Madrid last March 11, were both carried out almost entirely by Moroccan men. This fact is hard to swallow in a country that prides itself on its tolerant Islamic traditions and actively promotes itself as something of an exception within the Arab world.
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