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ISO 3166
MA
Main language + region
ary-MA
Currency
MAD · Moroccan Dirham
Region
EMEA · MENA · MENAP

Morocco

Morocco has 37.4M people, and 34.1M of them are online. Moroccan Arabic is the most widely spoken language at 87%, one of 11 languages CLDR lists here. Arabic, French, and Central Atlas Tamazight are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ary-MA.

ArabicFrenchCentral Atlas TamazightEMEAMENAMENAP

Market summary

Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.

People online

34.1M

0%world median 81%100%

91% of 37.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$4,672

Higher than 33% of 213 territories

GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.

Can pay online

44%

0%world median 71%100%

Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.

Languages

11

Moroccan Arabic 87% · Arabic 62% · French 36%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 3 of them are official nationally.

English proficiency

492

Very lowVery high

Low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.

Adult literacy

67%

0%world median 95%100%

Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.

What people speak

Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.

Most spoken in Morocco

share of 37.4M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 3 more languages sit below the top eight, at 10.7% combined.

CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ary-MA).

Plural categories

2

Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".

Script family

Latin

Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.

Reading direction

Left-to-right

Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.

Date

April 21, 2026

Short: 4/21/26

Time

6:30 PM

Week starts Mon

Currency

MAD 1,234.56

1,234.56 in MAD · Moroccan Dirham