The 2025 human development index, published by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), has classified Morocco as a country with “high human development”. Ranked 120th in the world in 193 countries, the kingdom obtained a score of 0.710, the one closest to 1 being the best.
In last year’s report, Morocco occupied the same 120th place, but with a score of 0.698, which placed it in the category “average human development”. The year before, he ranked 123rd.
Regarding the undanticators, the report, entitled “A question of choice: humans and potential in the era of artificial intelligence”, notes that life expectancy at birth in Morocco is 75.3 years. The number of years of expected schooling is 15.1 years, that of schooling being 6.2 years, while the gross national income per capita is $ 8,653.
Persistent disparities since the health crisis
The report shows how artificial intelligence can revitalize progress and reveals that the world is experiencing surprisingly weak development, instead of a lasting resumption after the exceptional crises of 2020-2021 linked to the pandemic. By excluding these years of crisis, the slight increase in global human development anticipated by this year’s report represents the lowest increase recorded since 1990.
As such, the document highlights the persistent differences in digital skills and limited access to devices or the Internet, even in high -income countries. Disparities are also linked to the concentration of IA research in the health field, in a few high -income countries.
According to the same source, research production is uneven: in Africa, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa are in the lead, with regard to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. For their part, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa focus on malaria and tuberculosis.
-Morocco ranked 13th among the Arab countries, behind the United Arab Emirates, first among the Arab nations and 15th worldwide, followed by Saudi Arabia (37th), Bahrain (38th), Qatar (43rd), Oman (50th), Kuwait (52nd), Algeria (96th). Egypt and Jordan follow, tied in the world ranking (100th), followed by Lebanon (102nd), Tunisia (105th) and Libya (115th).
Globally, Iceland is classified first, followed by Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Austria, with Hong Kong in eighth position, thus ahead of the Netherlands, then Belgium, in tenth position.
A long -term threat to development around the world
The report indicates an increasing gap between rich and poor countries, stressing that with growing global pressures on traditional development routes, decisive action is necessary to get the world out of prolonged stagnation. Achim Steiner, UNDP administrator, believes that the world has been on the right track, for decades, “to reach a very high human development by 2030”. From now on, this slowdown “constitutes a real threat to world progress,” he alerted.
“If the slow rate of slow progress for 2024 becomes the new standard, achieving the development objectives set for 2030 could be delayed by several decades, making our world less safe, more divided and more vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks,” added the UN official.
In the same vein, the relationship notes that the disparity between countries with low human development clues and those with very high clues increases for the fourth consecutive year, undergoing the long -term tendency to decrease these differences between the rich and poor nations.
