Morocco’s Military Budget Surges to $4.12 Billion, Nearly Doubling in a Decade

In its latest report entitled "World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT)" released on Thursday, the US State Department states that Morocco’s military spending represented 3.7% of its national GDP in 2019. The kingdom imported $1 billion worth of arms from the United States from 2017 to 2019, $100 million from European Union (EU) countries, $100 million from non-EU European countries, and finally $200 million from China, it is also specified.

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What about the military workforce? With 220,000 soldiers (including 180,000 enlisted in the army, 9,000 in the navy and 13,000 in the air force) in 2019, or 0.65% of the population and 1.90% of the total workforce, Morocco is ranked 25th in the world.