Morocco Data Book

Last update: August 2025

This page contains information about some of the data available in the FEWS NET Data Explorer (FDE) for Morocco. This is not a comprehensive guide.

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Summary table

Country food security context

Statistical reporting units

Morocco usually uses administrative units as their statistical reporting units.

Administrative (admin) units are the geographical areas into which a country is divided. FEWS NET uses the following terminology: National boundary = admin 0, First sub-national division = admin 1 (e.g., states in the United States), Second sub-national division = admin 2 (e.g., counties in the United States), and so on.

Admin 1: Region. Before 1997, there were 7 regions in the country and between 1997 and 2015, there were 16. As of 2015, there are 12 regions in Morocco, three of which lie either entirely, or in part, in the contested Western Sahara territory.   

Admin 2: There are two types of non-overlapping Admin 2 entities, one referred to as a prefecture, and the other, a province. There are currently 13 prefectures, and 62 provinces, for a total of 75 Admin 2 entities. 

Admin 3: Below the province/prefecture, the structure of local governance is via municipalities, generally referred to as communes, of which there are more than 1,500.

The FDW contains reporting unit relationship tables which define 17 annual sets of Admin 2 boundaries. These begin in 1971. The current set starts in 2016. Each annual set describes the statistical reporting entities at that time, and their temporal and hierarchical relationships as of the date of the set, carried until a new annual set overtakes it due to changes made in the country’s administrative structure. Taken together, these annual sets describe a genealogy of changes in Morocco’s statistical reporting units between 1980 and the present. 

Crop data

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View our documentation on using the Crop Domain.

Crop estimate data sources

The original source of the country’s crop statistics found in the FEWS Data Warehouse (FDW) is the Ministère de l'Agriculture, de la Pêche Maritime, du Développent Rural et des Eaux et Forêts. Every year they are published by the Haut-Commissariat au Plan (HCP) in an annual publication entitled “Annuaire Statistique du Maroc”.

Crop reporting units

Morocco’s crop data is primarily reported at the Admin 2-level (provinces and prefectures), and crop statistics for Morocco are available in the FDW covering a period running from 1997 to 2023. 

Year and season definition

The annual agricultural year (or cropping year) for in Morocco runs between July and June of the next year. A two-year notation (e.g. 2023/2024) is often used to identify a specific crop in time. When a one-year notation is used (e.g. 2024) it is end-aligned, referring to the second year in the two-year notation when the harvests occur.

 Example: 2023 refers to crops planted in 2022 and harvested in 2023.

Statistics for all crops in Morocco are presented for an annual period running between July and June. No seasonal or production-system breakouts are provided. 

The main grain crops in Morocco (wheat, barley) are generally planted in October and harvested by the end of June in the next year.

Primary crops

The principal food crops grown in the country are:

• Wheat: hard (durum) and soft

• Barley

• Pulses of various types

• Oil-producing crops: peanut, rape, sesame and sunflower

• Sugar-producing crops: sugar beets, sugarcane

Production systems

 The country’s crop production statistics provide no production system breakouts (e.g. irrigated, rainfed, etc.).  

Crop statistics context

The country’s source documents provide area estimates in hectares, and production estimates in quintals.

Methodology

No information is currently available from the Ministry of Agriculture.