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Population in Morocco compared to Sri Lanka: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Morocco was 38,081,173 in 2024 vs 21,916,000 people in Sri Lanka in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Morocco's population is 38,697,192 people compared to 22,125,995 in Sri Lanka.

Population statistics:

  • Morocco's population is 1.75 times bigger than Sri Lanka's.
  • Morocco is ranked the 41st most populous country in the world, while Sri Lanka is the 63rd.
  • The countries together account for 0.74% of the world: 0.47% for Morocco vs 0.27% for Sri Lanka.
  • For the last 10 years, Morocco has had an average growth rate of +1.09% per year vs +0.57% in Sri Lanka.
  • Since 2005, the population of Morocco has increased from 30.4M people to 38.7M (27.5% growth), while Sri Lanka has grown from 20.2M to 22.1M (9.45% growth).
  • Morocco is projected to reach its peak in 2058 at 43.7M people compared to the peak of 23.5M people in 2051 for Sri Lanka.

Morocco vs Sri Lanka: live population counter

Morocco Sri Lanka
Current population
38697192
22125995
Population rank 41/197 63/197
Percent of world population 0.47% 0.27%
One net population change
1.43 minutes
4.34 minutes
One birth every
50.1 seconds
2.13 minutes
One death every
2.47 minutes
2.91 minutes
One migration net change every
11.2 minutes
19.3 minutes
Annual migration change -46,802 -27,245
Daily growth/decline +1,010 -332
Annual growth/decline +368,668 -121,000
Annual growth/decline rate +0.98% -0.55%
Population growth rate rank 105/197 187/197

Morocco and Sri Lanka: population history and growth rate by year chart

Morocco
Population

Growth rate
Sri Lanka
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Morocco Sri Lanka Morocco Sri Lanka
1960 11,624,933 9,661,389 - -
1961 11,931,085 9,899,372 2.63% 2.46%
1962 12,253,092 10,143,754 2.7% 2.47%
1963 12,577,502 10,395,040 2.65% 2.48%
1964 12,898,886 10,653,397 2.56% 2.49%
1965 13,239,171 10,916,965 2.64% 2.47%
1966 13,597,065 11,183,928 2.7% 2.45%
1967 13,968,175 11,457,328 2.73% 2.44%
1968 14,347,899 11,736,088 2.72% 2.43%
1969 14,734,255 12,013,858 2.69% 2.37%
1970 15,129,449 12,287,110 2.68% 2.27%
1971 15,527,225 12,551,910 2.63% 2.16%
1972 15,924,692 12,809,205 2.56% 2.05%
1973 16,326,269 13,060,916 2.52% 1.97%
1974 16,733,842 13,305,693 2.5% 1.87%
1975 17,150,786 13,548,984 2.49% 1.83%
1976 17,574,182 13,796,770 2.47% 1.83%
1977 18,014,756 14,049,371 2.51% 1.83%
1978 18,477,385 14,310,128 2.57% 1.86%
1979 18,955,589 14,579,614 2.59% 1.88%
1980 19,459,943 14,847,974 2.66% 1.84%
1981 19,985,401 15,099,414 2.7% 1.69%
1982 20,520,318 15,286,567 2.68% 1.24%
1983 21,060,696 15,388,794 2.63% 0.67%
1984 21,593,778 15,441,860 2.53% 0.34%
1985 22,113,953 15,544,154 2.41% 0.66%
1986 22,600,803 15,731,256 2.2% 1.2%
1987 23,054,392 15,916,576 2.01% 1.18%
1988 23,500,524 16,078,621 1.94% 1.02%
1989 23,939,414 16,248,557 1.87% 1.06%
1990 24,375,551 16,352,458 1.82% 0.64%
1991 24,799,014 16,475,354 1.74% 0.75%
1992 25,212,468 16,739,284 1.67% 1.6%
1993 25,614,586 17,025,918 1.59% 1.71%
1994 26,000,822 17,275,773 1.51% 1.47%
1995 26,399,429 17,564,068 1.53% 1.67%
1996 26,808,107 17,905,018 1.55% 1.94%
1997 27,213,337 18,248,200 1.51% 1.92%
1998 27,621,648 18,596,003 1.5% 1.91%
1999 28,027,179 18,944,731 1.47% 1.88%
2000 28,423,435 19,293,054 1.41% 1.84%
2001 28,814,643 19,600,362 1.38% 1.59%
2002 29,198,142 19,805,752 1.33% 1.05%
2003 29,571,415 19,951,521 1.28% 0.74%
2004 29,953,018 20,087,605 1.29% 0.68%
2005 30,358,144 20,216,524 1.35% 0.64%
2006 30,771,178 20,352,411 1.36% 0.67%
2007 31,186,468 20,492,545 1.35% 0.69%
2008 31,606,767 20,629,378 1.35% 0.67%
2009 32,030,778 20,756,435 1.34% 0.62%
2010 32,467,016 20,879,089 1.36% 0.59%
2011 32,912,588 21,009,048 1.37% 0.62%
2012 33,355,241 21,169,458 1.34% 0.76%
2013 33,787,571 20,585,000 1.3% -2.76%
2014 34,204,780 20,778,000 1.23% 0.94%
2015 34,607,588 20,970,000 1.18% 0.92%
2016 35,023,457 21,209,000 1.2% 1.14%
2017 35,446,392 21,453,000 1.21% 1.15%
2018 35,839,760 21,670,000 1.11% 1.01%
2019 36,210,898 21,803,000 1.04% 0.61%
2020 36,584,208 21,919,000 1.03% 0.53%
2021 36,954,442 22,156,000 1.01% 1.08%
2022 37,329,064 22,181,000 1.01% 0.11%
2023 37,712,505 22,037,000 1.03% -0.65%
2024 38,081,173 21,916,000 0.98% -0.55%
2025 38,430,771 22,035,440 0.92% 0.54%
2026 38,762,439 22,148,172 0.86% 0.51%
2027 39,080,092 22,255,601 0.82% 0.49%
2028 39,384,122 22,357,682 0.78% 0.46%
2029 39,674,554 22,453,922 0.74% 0.43%
2030 39,953,461 22,546,245 0.7% 0.41%
2031 40,221,736 22,635,106 0.67% 0.39%
2032 40,477,986 22,720,118 0.64% 0.38%
2033 40,722,975 22,802,043 0.61% 0.36%
2034 40,957,241 22,879,527 0.58% 0.34%
2035 41,182,092 22,952,739 0.55% 0.32%
2036 41,398,224 23,022,027 0.52% 0.3%
2037 41,604,025 23,088,877 0.5% 0.29%
2038 41,802,267 23,152,480 0.48% 0.28%
2039 41,990,437 23,211,633 0.45% 0.26%
2040 42,168,202 23,265,986 0.42% 0.23%
2041 42,339,039 23,315,260 0.41% 0.21%
2042 42,500,324 23,359,578 0.38% 0.19%
2043 42,650,491 23,398,752 0.35% 0.17%
2044 42,792,499 23,433,096 0.33% 0.15%
2045 42,925,305 23,464,943 0.31% 0.14%
2046 43,046,175 23,492,738 0.28% 0.12%
2047 43,158,165 23,512,629 0.26% 0.08%
2048 43,262,402 23,525,953 0.24% 0.06%
2049 43,355,724 23,533,940 0.22% 0.03%
2050 43,440,428 23,538,230 0.2% 0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Morocco increased by 4,249,444 people (a 14% growth), while Sri Lanka gained 753,476 people (a 3.73% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Morocco gained 4,089,604 (a 11.8% growth), while Sri Lanka's population increased by 1,155,995 (a 5.51% growth).

Morocco was ranked 37th most populous country in 2005 and is 41st in 2025. Sri Lanka was ranked 53rd in 2005 and ranked 63rd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Morocco's population will grow by 12.3% to 43,440,428 people with a rank change from 41st to 50th. The population of Sri Lanka will increase by 6.38% to 23,538,230 people and rank change from 63rd to 70th.

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