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Morocco maintained its position in the Human Development Index issued by the United Nations Development Program under the title «The Next frontier : Human Development and the Anthropocene». It ranked 121st in the world, out of 189 countries, with a score of 0.686, thus placing it in the category of countries with «medium human development».
The report based its ranking on a number of sub-indicators, including average income, education and health measures, as well as an increase in the per capita gross national income for both males and females, as well as the rate of participation in the labor force.
The report indicated that the average life expectancy at birth in Morocco is 76.7 years. The expected years of schooling, according to the report, is 13.7 years, while mean years of schooling is estimated at 5.6 years. For the gross national income per capita, it amounted, according to the report, to 7,368 dollars.
Morocco ranked 14th in the Arab World
As for the gender inequality index, Morocco ranked 111th in the world, with a score of 0.454, and the same source stated that there are 60 deaths per 100,000 live births in the Kingdom. The percentage of the population who reached secondary level in education and those over the age of 25 years reached 29.1% for men and 36% for women.
As for the labor force participation index for men, it reached 70.1%, while this percentage for women decreased to 21.5%.
Morocco ranked 14th in the Arab world behind the United Arab Emirates ranked 31st in the world, Saudi Arabia 40th, Bahrain 42nd, then Qatar 45th, Oman 60th, Kuwait 64th, Algeria 91st, Lebanon 92nd, Tunisia 95th, Jordan 102nd, Libya 105th, Palestine 115th, and Egypt 116th.
Globally, Norway came at the top of the ranking, followed by Ireland, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Iceland. On the other hand, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Mali and Burundi came at the bottom of the ranking.
The report emphasized that human pressure on the environment has become so important that scientists say the Earth has entered a new geological era : the Anthropocene, or the age of humans.
It also stressed that the pressures that the world's countries cause on the planet are taken into account when measuring human progress, as more than 50 countries lose their «very high» human development rating due to this criterion. The same source explained that the progress of humanity will stop if governments do not take bold measures to relieve the tremendous pressure on the environment.
