Morocco’s Civil Service Costs Exceed 112 Billion Dirhams, Employs Over 560,000

According to the report, the analysis of the distribution, by department, of the civilian workforce of the State personnel, for the year 2019, clearly shows that more than 90% of the civilian civil servants available to the Moroccan civil service serve at the level of 6 ministerial departments.

In detail, the Department of National Education and Higher Education consumes almost half of the civilian workforce of the State (48.6%), followed by the Departments of the Interior (23.6%), Health (9.5%), Justice (3.5%), Economy and Finance (3.3%) and Prison Administration (2.1%). The other ministerial departments combined employ only 9.4% of the civilian civil servants.

Regarding personnel expenditures, they have increased, between 2009 and 2019, from 74.03 billion dirhams to 112.16 billion dirhams, an overall increase of 51.51% over the period, and an average annual increase of 4.24%, it is specified. Similarly, personnel expenditures represented an average of nearly 10.4% of GDP, due to employer contributions for retirement and social security. These expenditures represent 31.48% of the general budget in 2019.

The combined effect of the operations of creating and eliminating budgetary positions in previous years explains the evolution of the civilian workforce of the State, the report concludes.