Rabat — UN urban centre
Rabat: 2,069,287 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #240 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2739; 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: 34.0195, -6.8547. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 603,192 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 767,720 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 927,510 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,105,929 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,343,732 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,473,532 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,628,725 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,740,351 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,856,472 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,965,217 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,069,287 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,176,626 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,266,141 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,335,780 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,394,207 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,442,572 | Projection |
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