Casablanca — UN urban centre
Casablanca: 4,457,471 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #94 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2076; territory: Morocco (MAR). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 33.5818, -7.5426. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,743,210 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,072,636 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,377,366 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,668,567 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,959,106 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,171,277 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,448,389 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,761,530 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,049,162 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 4,277,517 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,457,471 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,606,563 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,746,181 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,847,145 | Projection |
| 2045 | 4,929,923 | Projection |
| 2050 | 4,988,449 | Projection |
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