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For the first time, the Cherifian kingdom rose to the rank of the most industrialized economy on the African continent in 2025. This is revealed by a report by the “the African Development Bank (ADB)”. Morocco is certainly benefiting from the South African retreat, but it is also the result of a pro-industry political strategy launched twenty years ago.<\/p>\n
The port of Tangier Med in northern Morocco<\/strong><\/p>\n In its report, the ADB highlights the successes of the Moroccan model: rising public and foreign investment, booming industrial zones and ever more connected infrastructure, especially with the port of Tangier Med, now the first African port.<\/p>\n As a result, the industry of the kingdom is no longer based only on phosphates or the automobile, but also on other promising sectors such as aeronautics. \u201cEvery plane in the sky today produced after the 2005\u2019s has at least one essential component produced in Morocco.<\/p>\n It was one of the bets to bet on aeronautics as well as on the automobile, says Abdelmalek Alaoui, president of the Moroccan Institute of Strategic Intelligence and author of the book Morocco, the challenge of power. \u00ab\u00a0When a country decides to put a lot of public investment into high-quality infrastructure \u2013 whether in connectivity, in in this ports or in telecoms, there are increasingly important international investors case but also accompanied by domestic investors. And that\u2019s where we change category\u00a0\u00bb says Abdelmalek Alaoui.<\/p>\n For Morocco remains a challenge: that the whole country benefits from this industrial success. \u00ab\u00a0There is a Morocco that wins, a Morocco near the ports, a Morocco of globalization. And there is still a Morocco of fringes, of territories. And the fact that we had this forced industrialization has widened gaps between those who are very rich and those who are much lower in the social pyramid\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n Because behind industrial performance, the disparities remain strong. In another report last month, the ADB noted that Morocco certainly has many companies, but struggles to create enough jobs for its population.<\/p>\n Morocco is, moreover, now “the economy closest to the frontier of industrial development, with a score of 0.8415, which puts it at 0.1585 points of the maximum value of 1”. This gap highlights the remaining margin of improvement, even for the highest-ranked economy, the study authors note.<\/p>\n