Mohammedia – The Moroccan civil service employed 576,062 civil servants in 2025, as per the human-resources report that accompanied the 2026 budget bill. The figure shows the number of budgetary posts for civilian personnel in the state’s public service.
The report reveals a striking imbalance, with 90.1% of the whole corps of civil servants concentrated in just 7 of Morocco’s 24 ministeries, leaving the other departments and public institutions to share less than 10% of the total workforce.
The Ministry of Education, Preschool and Sports, and the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation account for over 38.3% of the total civil staff alone.
The Interior Ministry comes next with 29.7%, followed by the Health and Social Protection Ministry at 12.4%.
Smaller percentages go to the Economy and Finance Ministry with 4.1%, the Prison Administration with 2.8% and the Justice Ministry with 2.7%.
This heavy concentration of staff across a few key ministries shows an uneven distribution of human resources within the public sector, offering a clearer snapshot of the state’s human-resources footprint in 2025.
However, the report notes that this uneven distribution is intentional, as it is related to government priorities in staffing. Between 2015 and 2025, about 61.6% of all new budgeted posts went to the Ministries of Interior, Education (including Higher Education), and Health, which are identified as priority social and security sectors.
These ministries, along with the National Defense, accounted for nearly 70% of new positions in 2025 alone, reflecting a deliberate policy of allocating human resources to public security, education, and health services—considered to be the backbone of Morocco’s social development agenda.
The staff data is also broken down by scale of function. In 2025, 66.9% of civil servants were in scale 10 and above, covering the senior positions in the public sector. Those in the execution scale (scale 6 and equivalent) make up 11.9%, and those in the supervisory scale (scales 7-9) 21.2%.
Distribution and structure civil service in 2025
The report says that while the total staffing is fixed at 576,062, its distribution between the ministries is far from equal.
The education ministries dominate with more than 38%, the interior ministry by almost 30%, and the other four big ministries share just under 22% altogether. This leaves the other ministries outside the top seven with under 10% of the positions.
In the combined list of top ministries, it is clear that the state’s policy today is strongly concentrated in sectors such as education, internal security, and health.
On the structural side, the high rate of senior scale personnel (66.9%) shows that the public service is skewed towards more qualified or higher-graded positions.
The lower rates in the execution and supervisory scales point to fewer staff in those grades in relation to the senior staff.
This could be the result of recent promotion policies or the selective appointment of higher-grade personnel.
Additionally, the “inter-ministerial” category, which encompasses approximately 26.7% of the total civil-service workforce, includes main professional groups such as administrators (29,609 persons), engineers (10,603), doctors (15,372), health technicians and nurses (7,705), technicians and editors (2,804), and administrative and technical assistants (21,536).
These statistics refer to the heterogeneity of professional profiles within the public service.
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