YOUTH IN MOROCCO / EMPLOYMENT
Youth Employment in Morocco
Employment, unemployment and NEET evidence for Moroccan youth, with clear denominators and source dates.
DIRECT ANSWER
What the evidence says
Youth labour-market indicators in Morocco answer different questions. HCP's 2021 population snapshot reported that 16.3% of people aged 15 to 24 were employed, 7.6% were seeking work and 76.1% were outside the labour market. Those percentages use the whole youth population as the denominator and are not the same as an unemployment rate. In 2026, HCP and ILO profiling reported that roughly one in three people aged 15 to 29 were NEET. World Bank youth-unemployment series use ILO labour-force definitions and should be read separately.
These figures use the definitions shown on each card. They are context indicators, not interchangeable measures.
REFERENCE ANALYSIS
Youth Employment in Morocco
Employment is not the same as unemployment
A youth employment share describes how much of the age group is working. An unemployment rate describes the share of the labour force that is without work but available for and seeking work. Mixing the two produces misleading comparisons.
The NEET challenge
The 2026 HCP and ILO profiling work treats NEET status as a structural policy challenge and emphasizes the diversity of pathways inside the group. A single national share does not explain gender, education, household or territorial differences.
Transitions matter
The most useful policy questions concern transitions: from school to work, from inactivity to training, from temporary work to stable employment, and from exclusion to access to services. This page therefore links labour indicators to education, entrepreneurship and opportunity data.
Source hierarchy
MYCDIC gives priority to HCP national statistics, ILO labour concepts and clearly identified international indicator series. Every future chart should state the age range, denominator, year and source.
SOURCES AND METHOD
Primary evidence used on this page
MYCDIC prioritizes official national sources and primary international institutional sources. Access dates are shown so readers can evaluate freshness.
Note d information a l occasion de la journee internationale de la jeunesse du 12 aout 2022
Open source Haut-Commissariat au Plan (Morocco) · Official statistics · Primary
Published 2022-08-12 · Accessed 2026-08-22Jeunes NEET au Maroc : Profilage statistique au profit de l action publique
Open source Haut-Commissariat au Plan (Morocco) · Official statistics and policy analysis · Primary
Published 2026-04-21 · Accessed 2026-08-22Jeunes ni en emploi, ni en etudes, ni en formation au Maroc: enseignements et pistes d action
Open source International Labour Organization · International organization report summary · Primary
Published 2026-04-16 · Accessed 2026-08-22Unemployment, youth total (% of total labor force ages 15-24), modeled ILO estimate - Morocco
Open source World Bank Data, sourced from ILOSTAT · International statistical indicator · Secondary
Published 2026-01-17 · Accessed 2026-08-22