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href="/wiki/Population_pyramid" title="Population pyramid">population pyramid</a> in 2020</figcaption></figure> <p>All data about demographic information regarding <a href="/wiki/Western_Sahara" title="Western Sahara">Western Sahara</a> are extremely error-prone, regardless of source. Most countries take censuses every ten years, and some every five in order to stay abreast of change and miscounts; the last count was conducted in 1970, and even that data by colonial Spain is considered unreliable due to large nomadic populations. </p><p>Following the 1975 <a href="/wiki/Green_March" title="Green March">Green March</a>, the Moroccan state has sponsored <a href="/wiki/Moroccan_settlers" title="Moroccan settlers">settlement schemes</a> enticing thousands of Moroccans to move into <a href="/wiki/Southern_Provinces" title="Southern Provinces">the Moroccan-occupied part of Western Sahara</a> (80% of the territory). By 2015, it was estimated that Moroccan settlers made up at least two thirds of the 500,000 inhabitants.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">international law</a>, Morocco's transfer of its own civilians into <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_list_of_non-self-governing_territories" title="United Nations list of non-self-governing territories">Non-Self-Governing territory</a> is in direct violation of <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention#Article_49:_Deportations,_transfers,_evacuations" title="Fourth Geneva Convention">Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The religion in Western Sahara is <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>. The major ethnic groups are <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> and <a href="/wiki/Berbers" title="Berbers">Berbers</a>. The most common languages are <a href="/wiki/Hassaniya_Arabic" title="Hassaniya Arabic">Hassaniya Arabic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moroccan_Arabic" title="Moroccan Arabic">Moroccan Arabic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="CIA_World_Factbook_demographic_statistics">CIA World Factbook demographic statistics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: CIA World Factbook demographic statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following demographic statistics are from the <a href="/wiki/CIA_World_Factbook" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA World Factbook">CIA World Factbook</a>, unless otherwise indicated. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Western_Sahara_population.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Demographics of Western Sahara, Data of FAO, year 2005; Number of inhabitants in thousands."><img alt="Demographics of Western Sahara, Data of FAO, year 2005; Number of inhabitants in thousands." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Western_Sahara_population.svg/550px-Western_Sahara_population.svg.png" decoding="async" width="550" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Western_Sahara_population.svg/825px-Western_Sahara_population.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Western_Sahara_population.svg/1100px-Western_Sahara_population.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>Demographics of Western Sahara, Data of <a href="/wiki/FAO" class="mw-redirect" title="FAO">FAO</a>, year 2005; Number of inhabitants in thousands.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Languages">Languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic" title="Modern Standard Arabic">Modern Standard Arabic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>, the former colonial language, are the <a href="/wiki/Official_language" title="Official language">official languages</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Polisario_Front" title="Polisario Front">Polisario Front</a>, based in <a href="/wiki/Tindouf" title="Tindouf">Tindouf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>. <a href="/wiki/Hassaniya" class="mw-redirect" title="Hassaniya">Hassaniya</a>, an Arabic dialect, is the native language spoken in Western Sahara and in the refugee camps in Tindouf in Algeria. There is also a significant presence of <a href="/wiki/Berber_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Berber language">Berber language</a> speakers in the northern parts of the territory of Western Sahara. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Se%C3%B1al_de_tr%C3%A1fico_en_la_N1_indicando_las_distancias_a_El_Aaiun_y_Dajla_(Sahara_Occidental).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Se%C3%B1al_de_tr%C3%A1fico_en_la_N1_indicando_las_distancias_a_El_Aaiun_y_Dajla_%28Sahara_Occidental%29.jpg/220px-Se%C3%B1al_de_tr%C3%A1fico_en_la_N1_indicando_las_distancias_a_El_Aaiun_y_Dajla_%28Sahara_Occidental%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Se%C3%B1al_de_tr%C3%A1fico_en_la_N1_indicando_las_distancias_a_El_Aaiun_y_Dajla_%28Sahara_Occidental%29.jpg/330px-Se%C3%B1al_de_tr%C3%A1fico_en_la_N1_indicando_las_distancias_a_El_Aaiun_y_Dajla_%28Sahara_Occidental%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Se%C3%B1al_de_tr%C3%A1fico_en_la_N1_indicando_las_distancias_a_El_Aaiun_y_Dajla_%28Sahara_Occidental%29.jpg/440px-Se%C3%B1al_de_tr%C3%A1fico_en_la_N1_indicando_las_distancias_a_El_Aaiun_y_Dajla_%28Sahara_Occidental%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Bilingual road sign in <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>, Western Sahara.</figcaption></figure> <p>Hassaniya, primarily spoken at home, is dominated by the Moroccan dialect spoken in the streets, workplace, and schools. This is because the great majority of the population consists of Moroccans who settled in Western Sahara. <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> is also commonly used by the Moroccan administration. In the urban areas <a href="/wiki/Moroccan_Arabic" title="Moroccan Arabic">Moroccan Arabic</a> is now spoken, as <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a> controls and administers most of the territory of Western Sahara and all of its cities, and considers it an inseparable part of the country. The <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Morocco" title="Constitution of Morocco">Moroccan constitution</a> stipulates two official languages for the Kingdom of Morocco, including Western Sahara: Berber (Tamazight) and Arabic. </p><p>Spanish is common among <a href="/wiki/Sahrawi_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Sahrawi people">Sahrawi people</a> and especially among the Sahrawi diaspora, with the <a href="/wiki/Sahrawi_Press_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Sahrawi Press Service">Sahrawi Press Service</a>, official news service of the <a href="/wiki/Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic" title="Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic">Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic</a>, being available in Spanish since 2001<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Sahara_Film_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Sahara Film Festival">Sahara Film Festival</a>, Western Sahara's only film festival, showing mainly Spanish-language films. Spanish is used to document Sahrawi poetry and oral traditions and has also been used in Sahrawi literature.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite Spanish having been used by the Sahrawi people for over a century, the <a href="/wiki/Cervantes_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Cervantes Institute">Cervantes Institute</a> does not provide support or Spanish-language education to Sahrawis in Western Sahara and the <a href="/wiki/Sahrawi_refugee_camps" title="Sahrawi refugee camps">Sahrawi refugee camps</a> in Algeria. A group of Sahrawi poets known as 'Generación de la Amistad saharaui' produces Sahrawi literature in Spanish. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religions">Religions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Religions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Western_Sahara" title="Islam in Western Sahara">Islam in Western Sahara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Western_Sahara" title="Catholic Church in Western Sahara">Catholic Church in Western Sahara</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islam</a> is the major religion in Western Sahara.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sunni Muslims constitute about 99.9% of the population. Prior to 1975 there were over 20,000 <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Western_Sahara" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism in Western Sahara">Roman Catholics in Western Sahara</a> but as of 2007<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> there were only around 100.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nationality">Nationality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Nationality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Sahrawi_nationality_law" title="Sahrawi nationality law">Sahrawi nationality law</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moroccan_nationality_law" title="Moroccan nationality law">Moroccan nationality law</a></div> <p><i>Noun:</i> Western Saharan(s) <br /><i>adjective:</i> Western Saharan </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Population">Population</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>400,000 (November 2014 est.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Age_structure">Age structure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Age structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>0–14 years:</i> 44.9% (male 92,418/female 89,570) <br /><i>15–64 years:</i> 53.8% (male 105,191/female 108,803) <br /><i>65 years and over:</i> 2.3% (male 3,881/female 5,337) (2010 est.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Population_growth_rate">Population growth rate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Population growth rate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>3.097% (2011 est.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Birth_rate">Birth rate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Birth rate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>39.54 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death_rate">Death rate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Death rate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>11.49 deaths/1,000 population (2010 est.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Net_migration_rate">Net migration rate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Net migration rate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>−6.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.) </p><p>Morocco has a policy of subsidizing Moroccan settlers in the territory.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Infant_mortality_rate">Infant mortality rate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Infant mortality rate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>69.66 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Life_expectancy_at_birth">Life expectancy at birth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Life expectancy at birth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>total population:</i> 54.32 years <br /><i>male:</i> 52 years <br /><i>female:</i> 56.73 years (2010 est.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Total_fertility_rate">Total fertility rate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Total fertility rate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>4.3 children born/woman (2011 est.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literacy">Literacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Literacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>definition:</i> NA <br /><i>total population:</i> 50% <br /><i>male:</i> 75% <br /><i>female:</i> 25% </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Refugees">Refugees</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Refugees"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sahrawi_refugees" title="Sahrawi refugees">Sahrawi refugees</a></div> <p>The events triggered by the Moroccan and Mauritanian joint invasion of <a href="/wiki/Western_Sahara" title="Western Sahara">Western Sahara</a> at the end of 1975 are directly linked to the large displacement of the <a href="/wiki/Sahrawi_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Sahrawi people">Saharawi</a> population, most of whom live as refugees in south-west <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>. The major bulk of Saharawis became refugees during the war between the <a href="/wiki/Polisario_Front" title="Polisario Front">Polisario Front</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>. The south-western desert region near <a href="/wiki/Tindouf" title="Tindouf">Tindouf</a> offered a potential safe region. Algeria, in its rivalry with Morocco, offered the Sahrawis a safe place to settle and actively supported the Polisario. </p><p>The next Saharawi exodus, although on a smaller scale, took place in 1979 when <a href="/wiki/Mauritania" title="Mauritania">Mauritania</a> withdrew from the conflict and Morocco annexed the rest of Western Sahara. Exact figures cannot be provided for the numbers that fled the territory in those two waves, but the estimations are between 1/3 and 2/3 of the total population at that time. The current size of the population in the refugee camps is believed to be around 165,000. </p><p>Used by the Algerian government, this figure is the most widely quoted by NGOs and is also used by the UNHCR and the World Food Programme to raise funds for food aid to the refugees. In the 2004 WFP meeting in Rome, the number of refugees was officially recognized at 158,000.<sup id="cite_ref-forcedmigration.org_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forcedmigration.org-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Western_Sahara&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Legal_status_of_Western_Sahara" class="mw-redirect" title="Legal status of Western Sahara">Legal status of Western Sahara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Morocco" title="Demographics of Morocco">Demographics of Morocco</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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<li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Demographics of the Republic of the Congo">Republic of the Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Djibouti" title="Demographics of Djibouti">Djibouti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Egypt" title="Demographics of Egypt">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Equatorial_Guinea" title="Demographics of Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Eritrea" title="Demographics of Eritrea">Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Eswatini" title="Demographics of Eswatini">Eswatini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Ethiopia" title="Demographics of Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Gabon" title="Demographics of Gabon">Gabon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Gambia" title="Demographics of the Gambia">The Gambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Ghana" title="Demographics of Ghana">Ghana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Guinea" title="Demographics of Guinea">Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Guinea-Bissau" title="Demographics of Guinea-Bissau">Guinea-Bissau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Ivory_Coast" title="Demographics of Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Kenya" title="Demographics of Kenya">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Lesotho" title="Demographics of Lesotho">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Liberia" title="Demographics of Liberia">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Libya" title="Demographics of Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Madagascar" title="Demographics of Madagascar">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Malawi" title="Demographics of Malawi">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Mali" title="Demographics of Mali">Mali</a></li> <li><a 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