Morocco has climbed to 68th place in the 2025 EF English Proficiency Index, improving from last year's 76th position, yet still falls into the "Low" proficiency category. Despite regional and city-specific advances, significant disparities persist in gender and age-based proficiency, underscoring the ongoing challenges in enhancing English skills across the nation.
In 2024, Darija remains the dominant in Morocco, with French playing a significant role in professional settings and English steadily rising, according to a recent survey on the Moroccan linguistic landscape. The survey also highlights the country's multilingualism, with a growing number of people speaking multiple languages, especially among younger and urban populations.
Morocco ranked 76th out of 116 countries in the EF English Proficiency Index 2024, scoring 479 points. While the country has shown steady progress, it still falls in the «low proficiency» category.
Jalal Hami Eddine, father of two, has carved out his own path to success without letting his visual impairment be an obstacle. To him, «disability is not the problem, but feeling it is».
Ghailan or Guyland is a Moroccan warlord who dreamed of building his own emirate in northern Morocco. With his strong men, he won several battles and tried to seize English Tangier before being put to death by Moulay Ismail.
Through a crowdfunding campaign, Ghanaian artist Reuben Odoi Yemoh is trying to help West and Central African migrants in Morocco. To him, this community is a vulnerable one as the language barrier makes it hard to access help.
In 2017, Mouhcine Camel launched a free initiative in one of the old alleys of the city of Essaouira. His project aims to teach languages, especially English, to young people.
Morocco ranks among the very low category of the English Proficiency index, released to measure English language skills in the world. The low trends in Morocco are blamed on the country’s complex linguistic landscape.