Morocco's Snapshot Country Profile

• Full name: The Kingdom of Morocco

• Population: 30.2m***
  

• Capital: Rabat

• Largest city: Casablanca

• Timezone: GMT

• Area: 710,850 sq km (274,461 sq miles) (including W Sahara)

• Sunshine: minimum of 330 days per year

• Coastline: 1835km. Beaches:  Mediterranean coast ideal for swimming, snorkelling, sailing and sunbathing, and the Atlantic coast for: sailing, surfing, swimming, sunbathing

• Major religion: Islam

• Major languages: Arabic (official), Berber, French, Spanish

• Internet domain: .ma

• International dialling code: +212

• GDP – $137 billion (PPP '08 est*)

• Economic Growth: 6.4% **

• Labour Force: 11.35m  (*est 2007)

• Unemployment: 15% (* est '07)
  

• Inflation: 4.6% *

• FDI: $1,946bn (prel. 2005 IMF) 1.5% of GDP (2004 World Bank)

• Average Wage: 1,825 dirham month (approx£152)#

• Monetary unit: Dirham = 100 centimes

• Main exports: Minerals, seafood products, citrus fruit

• Member of EU: No

For a fuller overview of Morocco’s country profile go to STEP country profile to give you more in-depth information of the Social, Technological, Economic and Political profile for the country.

To give you more background as to why you might consider investing in property in Morocco, go to the Why Invest Section, or maybe look at the individual towns and cities profiled in each country's Towns Section.

Source: *CIA Factbook, ** Euromonitor, ***World Bank, # Credit Research Paper, IMF, http://www.intute.ac.uk/, www.morocco-uk.com/embassy, BBC