Morocco

  • Languages: Arabic, Berber, and French.
  • Government: Constitutional Monarchy
  • Currency: Moroccan dirham 
  • Next UPR date:  31/03/2022 (Stakeholders report deadline); 08/08/2022 (national report deadline); 29/08/2022 (pre-session); 07/11/2022 (UPR working group)
  •  A country in North Africa, Morocco spans an area of 710,850 sq km.
  • Morocco has a population of 37,457,971 million and in 2021 a GDP of $ 132.73 billion.
  • According to CATO’s Freedom Index, Morocco is ranked 129 out of 162 countries ranked in human freedom measures, with zero rank change from 2017-2018. Furthermore, the Index indicates Morocco has a personal freedom score of 5.86 a category including but not limited to Freedom of assembly, association, freedom of religion, etc. 
  • The Index also reported Morocco having an economic freedom score of 6.70 a category including but not limited to money growth, the legal system of property, size of government, etc. 
  • Note: CATO report: The Human Freedom index 2020 demonstrates a strong positive correlation between Personal and Economic freedoms.
  • Also note the Index uses a scale of 1-10, where 10 represents the freest.