A note released by Morocco’s High Commission for Planning (HCP) showed that national economy lost 280,000 jobs while the unemployment rates increased from 12.1% to 12.9%, in the first quarter of 2023.
Rural areas lost 229.000 jobs and urban areas lost 51.000.
In contrast to the loss of 247,000 employment in “services” and 56,000 jobs in “agriculture, forestry, and fishing,” the construction industry saw the addition of 28,000 jobs.
Following the creation of 28,000 jobs in industrial activities and the loss of 38,000 jobs in craft or related activities, the industrial sector lost 10,000 jobs.
At the national level, the number of unemployed individuals increased by 83,000 (67,000 in urban regions and 16,000 in rural areas), as it went from 1,466,000 to 1,549,000 in 2022.
The unemployment rate thus went from 12.1% to 12.9% at the national level (from 16.3% to 17.1% in urban areas, and from 5.1% to 5.7% in rural areas).
This rate remains higher among young people aged 15 to 24 (35.3%), graduates (19.8%), and women (18.1%), declared the same authority.
HCP data showed that five regions are home to 73.2% of all working people aged 15 and over, with the Casablanca-Settat region being in first position with 22.4% followed by Rabat-Salé-Kénitra (13.7%), Marrakech-Safi (13.3%), Tangier-Tétouan- Al Hoceima (12.1%) and Fez-Meknes (11.7%).
As for underemployment, it is concentrated in the following five regions containing 70.7% of the unemployed.
The Casablanca-Settat region comes first with 26.1%, followed by Fès-Meknes (13.1%), Rabat-Salé-Kénitra (11.9%), Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima (10. 5%) and Oriental (9.1%).
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