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General Information

Region		Northern Africa
Population (000, 2024)		590^a
Pop. density (per km2, 2024)		2.2^a
Capital city		El Aaiún
Capital city pop. (000, 2024)		232.4^d
Surface area (km2)		266 000^b,c
Sex ratio (m per 100 f)		122.8^a
National currency		Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
Exchange rate (per US$)		9.9^e

Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Employment in agriculture^f (% of employed)	21.6	19.7	19.1^c
Employment in industry^f (% of employed)	21.2	21.3	21.4^c
Employment in services^f (% employed)	57.2	59	59.5^c
Unemployment^f (% of labour force)	7.6	9	8.1
Labour force participation rate^f (female/male pop. %)	29.5 / 79.2	28.6 / 75.3	31.0 / 79.5

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Population growth rate (average annual %)	2.8	1.7	1.8^a
Urban population (% of total population)	86.5	86.8^g	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	1.9^h	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	2.4	2.3	2.2^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	71.3 / 67.6	72.6 / 69.0	73.8 / 69.9^a
Population age distributionⁱ (0-14/60+ years old, %)	24.8 / 7.8	24.0 / 9.1	23.1 / 10.1^a
International migrant stock (000/% of total pop.)	5.2 / 1.0^f	5.4 / 0.9^f	... / ...
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	37.7	31.3	27^a

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Threatened species (number)	39	58	87^e
Forested area (% of land area)	2.5^f	2.5^f	2.5^j

Footnotes

a		Projected estimate (medium fertility variant).
b		Comprising the Northern Region (former Saguia el Hamra) and Southern Region (former Rio de Oro).
c		2022
d		2018
e		2023
f		Estimate.
g		2019
h		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
i		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
j		2021