Here are the main points of the Information note of the High Commission for Planning (HCP) relating to the situation of the labor market in the first quarter of 2025:
Job :
– Creation of 282,000 jobs at the national level
– Distribution by medium:
• Creation of 285,000 urban jobs
• Loss of 3,000 rural stations
– By type of job:
• Creation of 319,000 paid jobs
• Loss of 37,000 unpaid jobs
– Sectoral distribution:
• Creation of 216,000 positions in services
• Creation of 83,000 positions in the industry • Creation of 52,000 jobs in building and public works (construction)
• Loss of 72,000 positions in agriculture, forestry and fishing – the activity rate increased by 0.3 points to 42.9%
– The employment rate increased from 0.5 points to 37.2%
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Unemployment :
– The number of unemployed fell from 1% to 1,630,000 people
-The unemployment rate fell from 0.4 points to 13.3%: • 16.6% in urban areas (-1 point)
• 7.3% in rural areas (+0.5 point)
• 11.5% in men (-0.5 point)
• 19.9% among women (-0.2%)
• 37.7% among young people aged 15 to 24 (+1.8 point) • 21.2% among people aged 25 to 34 (-0.8 point)
• 7.5% in people aged 35 to 44 (-0.5 point) • 3.9% for those aged 45 and over (-0.6 point)
• 19.4% among graduates (-0.9 point)
Regional labor market situation:
– Five regions have housed 72% of all assets aged 15 and over
– Four regions display activity rates above the national average (42.9%)
-Five regions concentrate 70%of the unemployed, namely Casablanca-Settat (23%), Fès-Meknès (13.2%), Oriental (12.2%), Rabat-Salé-Kenitra (11.9%) and Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima (9.8%)
– The highest unemployment rates are observed in the Oriental region (25.2%) and the southern regions (23.8%)
-Two regions exceed the national average (13.3%) namely Casablanca-Settat (13.7%) and Fès-Meknès (14.7%)
-The regions of Drâa-Tafilalet (8%), Marrakech-Safi (8.9%) and Tangier-Tétouan-Al Hoceima (11.2%) record the lowest rates.
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Main characteristics of the occupied active population:
– almost 37.6% of busy assets reside in rural areas and 20.2% are female sex
– Young people aged 15 to 34 are 33.7% of the total employment volume (7.6% for 15 to 24 and 26.2% for 25 to 34 year olds)
– Almost 47% of the busy assets have no diploma, 33.2% have an average diploma and 19.8% a higher diploma
– The “Services” sector employs 49.2% of busy assets, followed by “agriculture, forest and fishing” with 25%
– nearly 6 worked workers out of 10 in rural areas (59.9%) exercise in the “agriculture, forest and fishing” sector, and nearly two thirds of the city -occupied assets (65.9%) work in the “Services” sector
– Almost 9.3%of the worked workers exert an unpaid job, with a higher proportion in rural people (21.5%) than in city dwellers (1.9%), and in women (24.4%) than in men (5.4%)
– Almost 11.8% of worked assets exercise an occasional or seasonal type employment (17.8% in rural areas and 8.3% in urban areas)
– almost three out of ten workers (31.1%) benefit from employment -related medical coverage (42.4% in urban areas and 12.3% in rural areas)
– The busy assets exercising in “industry” record the highest medical coverage rate (48.9%), followed by those relating to the “services” (42.6%), construction (13.6%) and “agriculture, forest and fishing” sector (7.6%)
– at national level, 46.5% of employees benefit from medical coverage provided by the employer (54.2% in urban areas and 26.2% in rural areas; 63.1% among women and 42.4% among men)
