Life expectancy in Morocco
Morocco: Life expectancy was 75.31 years in 2023. ▲ Rising
Life expectancy in Morocco, 1950–2023
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in years.
Analysis
Morocco recorded 75.31 years for life expectancy in 2023. That is the highest value across all 74 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 4.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, life expectancy in Morocco peaked at 75.31 years in 2023 and was at its lowest, 38.77 years, in 1950.
Morocco ranks 118th of 236 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 74 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 40.63 years | 38.77 years | 42.68 years | 10 |
| 1960s | 45.51 years | 41.73 years | 48.19 years | 10 |
| 1970s | 51.27 years | 48.69 years | 54.38 years | 10 |
| 1980s | 58.71 years | 55.22 years | 61.82 years | 10 |
| 1990s | 64.49 years | 62.4 years | 66.4 years | 10 |
| 2000s | 68.58 years | 66.79 years | 70.45 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 72.63 years | 70.82 years | 74.24 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 74.25 years | 73.13 years | 75.31 years | 4 |
Countries ranked near Morocco
More health data for Morocco
- Age population, age 16, male, interpolated 340,132 (2025)
- Age population, age 19, female, interpolated 304,635 (2025)
- Age population, age 18, male, interpolated 326,332 (2025)
- Age population, age 18, female, interpolated 311,427 (2025)
- Age population, age 17, male, interpolated 333,453 (2025)
- Age population, age 17, female, interpolated 317,375 (2025)
- Population, male 50.4% (2025)
- Population, female 49.6% (2025)
- Population, male 19.37 million (2025)
- Age population, age 07, female, interpolated 316,627 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is life expectancy in Morocco?
- Life expectancy in Morocco was 75.31 years in 2023, according to Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest life expectancy recorded in Morocco?
- The highest recorded value was 75.31 years in 2023.
- What is the lowest life expectancy recorded in Morocco?
- The lowest recorded value was 38.77 years in 1950.
- How does Morocco rank for life expectancy?
- Morocco ranks 118th out of 236 countries with data for 2023.
- Is life expectancy rising or falling in Morocco?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Morocco data come from?
- The figures come from Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Life expectancy. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.