Morocco 
Facts
Population: 33,757,175 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 31% (male 5,339,730/female 5,140,482)
15-64 years: 63.9% (male 10,750,240/female 10,815,470)
65 years and over: 5.1% (male 740,686/female 970,567) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.528% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 21.64 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 5.54 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -0.82 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.039 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.994 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.763 male(s)/female
total population: 0.994 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 38.85 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 42.56 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 34.96 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71.22 years
male: 68.88 years
female: 73.67 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.62 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 15,000 (2001 est.).
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: 52.3%
male: 65.7%
female: 39.6% (2004 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $152.5 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 9.3% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $4,600 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 13.3%
industry: 31.2%
services: 55.5% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 11.25 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 40%
industry: 15%
services: 45% (2003 est.).
Population below poverty line: 19% (2005 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.6%
highest 10%: 30.9% (1998-99).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.8% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 7.7% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $15.85 billion
expenditures: $20.39 billion; including capital expenditures of $2.19 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: barley, wheat, citrus, wine, vegetables, olives; livestock.
Industries: phosphate rock mining and processing, food processing, leather goods, textiles, construction, tourism.
Industrial production growth rate: 4% (2004 est.).
Electricity - production: 18.48 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 18.89 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 1.7 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $11.72 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: clothing, fish, inorganic chemicals, transistors, crude minerals, fertilizers (including phosphates), petroleum products, fruits, vegetables.
Exports - partners: France 30.3%, Spain 18%, UK 6.2%, Italy 5.2%, India 4.1% (2005).
Imports: $21.22 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: crude petroleum, textile fabric, telecommunications equipment, wheat, gas and electricity, transistors, plastics.
Imports - partners: France 18.2%, Spain 11%, Saudi Arabia 6.8%, Russia 6.8%, Italy 6.1%, China 5.2%, Germany 4.7% (2005).
Debt - external: $17.9 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $706 million (2004).
Currency (code): Moroccan dirham (MAD).
Exchange rates: Moroccan dirhams per US dollar - 8.7722 (2006), 8.865 (2005), 8.868 (2004), 9.574 (2003), 11.021 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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Tamazight
(Berber-oriented, trilingual weekley), Rabat
Twiza
(Monthly, Berber-oriented, trilingual newspaper), Nador
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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