Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Morocco

Poverty at the national line in Morocco in 2022 — 3.9%. Ranked 1 in the world out of 52. Since 1998, the indicator has fallen by 12.4 pp.

2022 3.9% −0.9 pp vs 2013
World rank 1of 52
Period maximum 16.3%1998
Period minimum 3.9%2022

Trend over time

1998–2022 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Morocco, 1998–2022051015201998200120042007201020132016201920221998: 16.3%2000: 15.3%2006: 8.9%2013: 4.8%2022: 3.9%
Change over the period: −12.4 pp Annual average: -0.52 pp
Poverty at the national line — Morocco, by year Morocco All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 3.9
2013 4.8
2006 8.9
2000 15.3
1998 16.3

About the indicator

The share of the population below the national poverty line — the one a country has defined in its legislation or in the methodology of its statistical office. The indicator answers a question the international lines do not ask: how many people are poor by the standards of their own society. That is exactly why it is unfit for comparing countries with one another — yet it shows better than any other indicator how a country assesses poverty at home, and it is what the results of national policy are judged by.

Important: There are no aggregates for country groups, and this is not a gap: poverty lines differ between countries, and a sum of shares computed against different lines has no definition. For comparing countries there are the three international lines.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.