Changes in family-building patterns in Egypt and Morocco: A comparative analysis. International Family Planning Perspectives 26(2

($3,829) than in Morocco ($3,477), as is the proportion of adults who are literate (51% vs. 44%). Life expectancy at birth is almost equal in the two countries (66 years in Mo-rocco and 65 years in Egypt). In Morocco, 52 % of the population live in urban areas, compared with 45 % of the Egyptian population. During recent years, urban growth has slowed somewhat in Egypt, as migration from rural areas to cities has tapered off because improve-ments in the transportation network have facilitated daily migration. In Morocco, on the other hand, entire rural families still move to the city to find work. Moreover, in both urban and rural areas, the popu-lation distribution is more concentrated in Egypt than in Morocco; for example, 23 % of Egypt’s total population lives in greater Cairo, while only 17 % of Moroc-co’s population resides in the megalopo-lis that stretches along the Atlantic coast from Casablanca to Kenitra.3 The Arab nation of Egypt is more eth-nically and linguistically homogenous than Morocco, which has a large minori-ty Berber population; for example, at least Eltigani E. Eltigani is assistant research professor at th