Marrakech 2009 at a glance

Participants: 2,106 registered participants (more than 2,300 including NOC invited guests)

Gender: 1,000 women (47.7%), 1,092 men (52.2%).

Age: 501 participants aged below 34 (24%); 941 participants below the age of 45 (45%).

Affiliation: 70% affiliated to research centres and universities and 22% affiliated to national
   governments, international organizations and civil society institutions involved in public policy
   formulation and implementation.

IUSSP Members: 1,371 (65% of participants): 1,009 members and 362 student members.
  

 

Regional distribution of participants (by residence):
  Africa   24%
  Asia   13%
  North America  20%
  Latin America   8%
  Europe   33%
  Oceania  2%

 

 

Countries most represented:

Morocco (268) 
USA (254)
France (158)
Italy (92)
Canada (87)
India (87)
United Kingdom (74)
Brazil (66)
Germany (54)
Spain (53)
Mexico (46)
Argentina (34)
Australia (34)
Netherlands (34)

Nigeria (33)
Sweden (33)
Egypt (32)
Belgium (30)
China (27)
Korea (Republic) (24)
Algeria (22)
Iran (22)
Poland (22)
Japan (21)
South Africa  (18)
Kenya (17)
Burkina Faso (16)
Philippines (16)

Bangladesh (15)
Cameroon (15)
Ghana (14)
Senegal (14)
Czech Republic (13)
Russia (13)
Thailand (12)
Uruguay (12)
Tunisia (11)
Estonia (10)
Indonesia (10)
Pakistan (10)
Uganda (10)

 

Financial Support

• The IUSSP funded 397 participants, mostly from Latin America, Africa and Asia.

• The NOC funded 84 participants, mostly from Africa.


Scientific Programme

• 3,156 submissions to the Call for Papers.

• 1,720 total communications accepted on the Scientific Programme.

• 865 papers presented in the 219 regular sessions.

• 565 posters presented in the 5 Poster sessions.

• 10 NOC sessions on the Arab World.

• 3 training sessions (2 in regular sessions and 1 as a side meeting).

• 4 plenary sessions.

• 44 side meetings organized by 41 institutions.

• 46 exhibit booths.