Morocco Faces Critical Brain Drain as 700 Doctors Emigrate Annually

About 700 doctors and between 2,000 and 3,000 engineers, in addition to 30,000 workers in the tourism sector, emigrate each year for various reasons, Abdellatif Miraoui revealed during his participation in the 65th anniversary ceremony of the University Mohammed V in Rabat, noting that the number of doctors who left the kingdom was around 600 in 2018, or 30% of the graduates in medicine and pharmacy during the same year. The minister deplores an "inestimable" human loss for Morocco.

The causes of these massive departures of Moroccan executives are justified by the combination of factors related to relatively unattractive job offers in Morocco and a strong demand for doctors and engineers in Europe or North America.