Latest News About Moroccan Census

Here is the latest I can gather based on recent publicly reported updates.

• Morocco completed the data collection for its 2024 General Population and Housing Census (RGPH 2024). The High Commission for Planning (HCP) announced that the field operation wrapped up and data were being processed at the central data management center, with emphasis on data security and digitization. This aligns with the government’s ongoing push for a data-driven approach to governance. [sources indicate completion of data collection and ongoing processing]

• Separate reports confirm that the census began earlier in 2024, with fieldwork spanning across regions and involving tens of thousands of enumerators (around 55,000 reported in some briefings). The initiative was described as comprehensive, aiming to capture demographic, social, and housing data, and supported by royal directives stressing large-scale participation and new data themes.

• There were early disruptions or delays in the planning stages in 2024, but the primary objective remained to deliver an updated national portrait of Morocco’s population and housing, to inform policy, development planning, and investment. The most recent items focus on completed enumeration and forthcoming detailed results, with preliminary discussions circulating in media and official channels.

Illustration: A typical census workflow in Morocco involves planning and royal directives, household enumeration across regions, data capture via tablets, centralized digitization at the HCP data center, and phased release of results after processing and validation. This streamlined path supports timely policy inputs and improved data security.

If you’d like, I can pull in more precise dates, counts, and forthcoming report release timelines from specific sources and summarize them in a compact timeline. Also, I can monitor for any official release of the census results and provide a concise synthesis once available.