Moroccans in France

French-Moroccans

Total population
1,500,000 (Moroccan origin) and [1] [2] [3] 433,026 (Moroccan-born people) [4]
Languages
French (Maghrebi French), Arabic (Moroccan Arabic, Jebli Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan Arabic, Hassaniya Arabic), Berber (Tashlhit, Tarifit, Central Atlas Tamazight), Spanish
Religion
Majority Muslim Minorities Judaism, and Christianity (mostly Catholic and Protestant minorities), [5] other religions Irreligion. [5]
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.

Demographics

The 2011 Census recorded 433,026 Moroccan-born people. ^[6]

Year	Moroccan-born population	+ descendance	Foreigners	Migrants	Other data
1999			387,654 [7]		506,000 [8]
2005	846,901 [9]
2006	859,026 [9]
2007	870,871 [9]				452,000 [8]
2008	881,334 [9]	1,314,000 [10] [11]	654.000 [12]
2009
2010
2011			433,026 [6]	679,983 [13] [14] [2]
2012
2013

Religion

According to the national survey of 2020 holden by the INSEE, 65% of the French of Moroccan origin adhered to Islam; at the same time, 5% of the French of Moroccan origin adhered to Christianity, of whom 3% were Catholics and 2% other Christians (without further specification), and 4% to Judaism. ^[5] 25% of the French of Moroccan origin declared that they had no religion. ^[5] According to the same survey 89% of Moroccan-born people in France adhered to Islam. ^[5]

Notable people

Jamel Debbouze	Najoua Belyzel	Medhi Benatia	Abdelatif Benazzi	Amel Bent	Édith Piaf	Rachida Dati	David Serero
Gad Elmaleh	Abdelhamid El Kaoutari	Sofia Essaïdi	Audrey Azoulay	La Fouine	Eliette Abécassis	Saïd Taghmaoui	Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Myriam El Khomri	Roschdy Zem	Adil Rami	Amir Haddad	Elisa Tovati	Frida Boccara	David Guetta	Élie Semoun
Richard Anconina	Aure Atika	Roger Karoutchi	Romain Saïss	Mounir Mahjoubi	Sakina Karchaoui	Jade Nassi	Nesryne El Chad

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See also

• France portal
• Morocco portal

• Morocco–France relations

References

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2. Répartition des étrangers par nationalité en 2011. Paris: INSEE. 2011. Archived from the original on 19 December 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
3. Alaoui, Rachid (2013). "Peut-on parler de diaspora marocaine ?". Hommes & Migrations (1303): 7–15. doi: 10.4000/hommesmigrations.2543 . Archived from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
4. "Résultats de la recherche | Insee". Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
5. Drouhot, Lucas; Simon, Patrick; Tiberj, Vincent (30 March 2023). "La diversité religieuse en France : transmissions intergénérationnelles et pratiques selon les origines" [Religious diversity in France: Intergenerational transmissions and practices according to the origins](PDF) (in French). INSEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2023. Website (archive)
6. "Répartition des étrangers par nationalité en 2011 INSEE". Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
7. "Country-of-birth database". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Archived from the original on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
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9. "Stock of foreign-born population by country of birth". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
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12. "Répartition des étrangers par nationalité en 2008 INSEE". Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
13. "Répartition des immigrés par pays de naissance en 2011 INSEE". Archived from the original on 26 October 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
14. "Présentation du Maroc". Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2020.