According to the recently published Democracy Index 2023 by The Economist, Morocco ranks 93rd globally out of 167 countries, falling within the «hybrid regimes» category.
Morocco has gone down in the ranking of the 2018 Freedom in the World report. The latter, conducted to assess each country's degree of political freedoms and civil liberties, has rated the Kingdom as a partially free nation.
The Moroccan and the Jordanian monarchies have been perceived differently when compared to the other Arab kingdoms. «Moderate, Western-oriented and reform-minded», the Washington Post argues that the two regimes are not ready for democracy.