In its Freedom on the Net report, Freedom House classified Morocco as a partially free country, scoring 54 out of 100 points, up from 51 the previous year. The report highlights ongoing violations of users' rights and content restrictions, reflecting a broader global decline in online freedom.
Morocco ranked 129th out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders' annual World Press Freedom Ranking 2024, up 15 places from last year's ranking.
In its 2021 World Press Freedom report, Morocco ranks 136th out of 180 countries, losing three places. According to Reporters Without Borders, Morocco’s media «continue to be subjected to judicial harassment».
In its recent report on the human rights situation in several countries, Human Rights Watch said that Morocco «continued to selectively target, prosecute, jail and harass critics, an enforce various repressive law, notably pertaining to individual liberties» in 2019.
The Freedom House recent reports ranks Morocco second in North Africa, behind Tunisia the freest country in the region.
According to the recent edition of the Economic Freedom Index, Morocco’s economy is the freest in North Africa. The country managed to improve its performance by implementing multiple financing options.
For the latest edition of Reporters Without Borders annual report, 2017 saw a great deal of additional judicial harassment of journalists in Morocco. The latter‘s performance declined when compared to previous years.
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.