Total population | |
---|---|
1,000,000 to 1,500,000 (Moroccan origin) and [1] [2] [3] [4] (433,026) Moroccan-born people [5] | |
Languages | |
French (
Maghrebi French), Arabic ( Moroccan Arabic, Jebli Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan Arabic, Hassaniya Arabic), Berber ( Tashlhit, Tarifit, Central Atlas Tamazight), Spanish | |
Religion | |
Majority
Muslim Judaism, and Mainly Christianity (mostly Catholic and Protestant minorities), [6] Islam (mostly Sunni Islam) and other religions Irreligion. [6] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Algerians in France Tunisians in France |
French-Moroccans or Franco-Moroccans or simply ( French: Franco-Marocains) are French citizens and nationals ethnic group, of the France with French citizenship and a French passport of Moroccans descent, immigrants from Morocco to the France and their descendants they are the second largest ethnic group in the France after Algerians in France. French people of Moroccan descent living in France account for a large sector of the total immigrant population in France. Following the French protectorate in French Morocco from 1912 to 1956, many Moroccans chose to immigrate to France from the 1960s to the present due to France's favorable economic conditions.
The 2011 Census recorded 433,026 Moroccan-born people. [7]
Year | Moroccan-born population | + descendance | Foreigners | Migrants | Other data |
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1999 | 387,654 [8] | 506,000 [9] | |||
2005 | 846,901 [10] | ||||
2006 | 859,026 [10] | ||||
2007 | 870,871 [10] | 452,000 [9] | |||
2008 | 881,334 [10] | 1,314,000 [11] [12] | 654.000 [13] | ||
2009 | |||||
2010 | |||||
2011 | 433,026 [7] | 679,983 [14] [15] [3] | |||
2012 | |||||
2013 |
According to the national survey of 2020 holden by the INSEE, 95% of the French of Moroccan origin adhered to Islam; at the same time, 2% of the French of Moroccan origin adhered to Christianity, of whom 1% were Catholics and 1% other Christians (without further specification), and 2% to Judaism. [6] 1% of the French of Moroccan origin declared that they had no religion. [6] According to the same survey 99% of Moroccan-born people in France adhered to Islam. [6]
.