Urbanization is gaining ground in Morocco. Admittedly, not yet to the point of bringing our country into the top 10 of the most urbanized African countries, but it is gaining ground year following year.
The latest global statistics unveiled by the World Bank on the evolution of the urban population, position Morocco in twelfth place on the African continent with an urbanization rate of 64%, or 1.5 percentage points compared to the previous ranking.
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Morocco still manages to very slightly reduce the gap that distances it from the top 10 of Africa and whose average urbanization rate is 74%. A platoon made up of African countries that are quite heterogeneous in terms of the level of socio-economic development, but which have in common a galloping urbanization, sometimes anarchic and having nothing virtuous, neither socially nor from an environmental point of view.
We find there our three Maghreb neighbors to the east (Libya, Tunisia and Algeria), as well as French-speaking (Djibouti, Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon), Portuguese-speaking (Angola) or English-speaking (South Africa and Botswana) countries. . Another Portuguese-speaking country, in this case Cape Verde, overtakes Morocco by positioning itself in 11th place in Africa with an urbanization rate of 67% (identical to that of Gabon, which brings up the rear of the top 10).
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On a trend of ten or even twenty years, these statistics show that Morocco is experiencing a slowdown in its trend of urbanization compared to other African countries (some of which exceed us today were at less than 10% in 1960 once morest 29 % for Morocco) and this, echoing the slowdown in the rural exodus, the main engine of urbanization until 2000. foundations of an inclusive and controlled town planning and to reduce territorial disparities and to whom the current “truce” gives an opportunity to catch up at the lowest cost.
