Morocco’s Economic Powerhouses: Three Regions Dominate Service Sector Growth

Secondary activities, for their part, are concentrated in the regions of Casablanca-Settat and Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima. Thus, they contributed 56.6% to the national value added of the sector in 2017 against 57.2% the previous year.

Primary activities, on the other hand, remain the hallmark of a limited number of regions, the same source points out, noting that six of them, namely Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Fès-Meknès, Casablanca-Settat, Marrakech-Safi, Souss-Massa and Béni Mellal-Khénifra, created a little more than two-thirds of the value added of the sector for a contribution of 76.7% to the creation of the national value added of the primary sector in 2017, against 75.8% in 2016.

According to the same note, primary activities (agriculture and fishing) constitute 12.4% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the national level in 2017. It also specifies that the contribution of this sector to wealth creation exceeds this national average in the majority of regions.

As proof, these primary activities contribute 27.1% to the GDP of the Dakhla-Oued-Ed-Dahab region, 21.7% to the GDP of the Fès-Meknès region, 18.7% to the GDP of the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region and 18.4% to the GDP of the Souss-Massa region, the same source points out.

It also indicates that the Casablanca-Settat region, for its part, shows the lowest share with 5.3%. Secondary activities, on the other hand (industry, mining, electricity and water, construction and public works), contribute 26.2% of GDP at the national level in 2017. Casablanca-Settat (35.2%), Béni Mellal-Khénifra (34.9%), Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima (34%) and Laâyoune-Saguia Al Hamra (28.2%), for their part, show shares higher than this average.

Half of the national wealth is provided by tertiary activities in 2017, according to the same source.