Agriculture, Services Sectors Hold Highest Employment Rates in Morocco

The agricultural and services sectors held the highest employment rate in Morocco at the end of the second quarter of 2022, according to a new report from the country’s Higher Commission for Planning (HCP), a state-owned business intelligence agency.

Rabat – The agricultural and services sectors held the highest employment rate in Morocco at the end of the second quarter of 2022, according to a new report from the country’s Higher Commission for Planning (HCP), a state-owned business intelligence agency.

Of Morocco’s 11 million labor force, the services sector accounted for 46.8%, says the report, further showing that agriculture comes second as it employs 30.8% of the Moroccan labor force.

The industrial sector featured in third place, employing 11.7% of Morocco’s current labor force. Construction trails behind with a 10.7% share of the labor force, the HCP report indicates.

On the geographical distribution of the labor force, the HCP report suggests that 7 out of 10 workers (68.1%) in rural areas work in agriculture while nearly two-thirds of the urban labor force (66.5%) work in the services sector.

Also highlighted in the report is that the agriculture sector has hemorrhaged 210,000 jobs nationally at the end of the first quarter of 2022, causing Morocco’s labor force in the agriculture sector to shrink by 6%.

At the end of the first six months of 2022, the services sector generated 237,000 jobs on the national level, 184,000 of which were created in urban areas and 53,000 in rural areas, marking a 5% rise in employment within the sector.

The Industrial sector equally saw an increase in the labor force, with 76,000 new job positions emerging within the sector.

Close to 69,000 of the new jobs within the industrial sector were created in urban areas and 7,000 in rural areas. Meanwhile, the construction sector generated 30,000 jobs at the end of June, with 16,000 jobs in urban areas and 14,000 in rural areas.