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Unemployment rate in Morocco

How hard is it to have a job there?

Morocco's unemployment rate is 9.00 % — #101 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

9.00%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Morocco over time

13.58 %11.24 %8.90 %13.58 % · 20008.90 % · 20232000: 13.58 %2001: 12.46 %2002: 11.59 %2003: 11.92 %2004: 10.83 %2005: 11.01 %2006: 9.67 %2007: 9.56 %2008: 9.57 %2009: 8.96 %2010: 9.09 %2011: 8.91 %2012: 8.99 %2013: 9.23 %2014: 9.70 %2015: 9.46 %2016: 9.30 %2017: 9.22 %2018: 9.27 %2019: 9.19 %2020: 11.19 %2021: 10.55 %2022: 9.41 %2023: 8.90 %2024: 9.10 %2025: 9.00 %2000201220259.00 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#101 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
19 %
23 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.10 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
4.58 pp
peak 13.58 % in 2000
Full series
▼ 4.58 pp
since 2000

In Africa: #12 of 21vs median 5.25 %: +3.75 pp (worse)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Morocco: ahead of 19 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentMorocco 9.00 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Morocco is ahead of 19 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Morocco
99 Belize8.86 %−0.14 pp
100 Chile8.97 %−0.03 pp
101 Morocco9.00 %—
102 Bahamas9.21 %+0.21 pp
103 Zimbabwe9.29 %+0.29 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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