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Morocco–Spain and Morocco–France are among the top migration corridors involving African countries in 2024, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s World Migration Report 2026.
The Morocco–Spain corridor ranks fifth, with slightly more than one million migrants, while Morocco–France ranks eighth, also with more than one million migrants. Neighboring Algeria also appears on the list through the Algeria–France corridor, which ranks fourth with nearly 1.5 million migrants.
The report explains that these migration corridors are shaped by a combination of labor migration, geographic proximity, and historical ties linking North African countries to Europe.
The IOM report also places Morocco among the top African countries of origin for emigrants in 2024. Morocco ranks third on the list, behind Egypt and Sudan, and ahead of South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Algeria, and Zimbabwe.
According to the report, the proportion of male and female emigrants from Morocco is relatively balanced. More broadly, however, migration patterns in North Africa continue to show a slightly higher proportion of male migrants, reflecting longstanding trends of men migrating independently for work opportunities abroad.
The report further notes that Africa’s largest migration corridors are influenced by labor mobility, regional proximity, displacement caused by conflict, and historical and postcolonial ties. It adds that some routes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, are heavily linked to forced displacement and humanitarian crises.
Published by the International Organization for Migration, the UN migration agency, the World Migration Report 2026 estimates that the number of international migrants worldwide reached around 304 million people by mid-2024, representing 3.7% of the global population. The report also states that global displacement surpassed 120 million people by the end of 2024.
