ACOG - Morocco  - IBM

Geography

Location: Northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and Western Sahara

Area:
total area: 446,550 sq km
land area: 446,300 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than California

Land boundaries: total 2,002 km, Algeria 1,559 km, Western Sahara 443 km

Coastline: 1,835 km


People

Population: 29,168,848 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 38% (female 5,486,176; male 5,659,410)
15-64 years: 58% (female 8,456,525; male 8,327,560)
65 years and over: 4% (female 641,236; male 597,941)

Population growth rate: 2.09% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 27.93 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.97 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -1.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 45.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 68.98 years
male: 67.03 years
female: 71.02 years

Total fertility rate: 3.69 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: 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: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 50%
male: 61%
female: 38%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Kingdom of Morocco
conventional short form: Morocco

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Rabat

Independence: 2 March 1956 (from France)

Constitution: 10 March 1972, revised 4 September 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $87.5 billion

National product real growth rate: 8%

National product per capita: $3,060

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.4%

Unemployment rate: 16%

Electricity:
capacity: 2,620,000 kW
production: 9.9 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 361 kWh



Olympic Factoid
An estimated 5.3 million visted Centennial Olympic Park between opening day - 13 July - and closing day - 4 August, making the park the most single most visited Olympic site during the Games.