Morocco: Adolescents out of school, female (% of female lower secondary school age)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Morocco's adolescents out of school, female (% of female lower secondary school age) fell 2.9 percentage points on 2023 (from 5.29% to 2.39%).

Across the 17 yearly changes before that (2000 to 2023), the average change was −1.77 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.61 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.52 percentage points in 2018 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.63 percentage points in 2022. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 1.46 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 85% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about 1.4% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 3.75%, against 7.43% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.

How it compares

In 2024, Morocco had the 54th highest value of the 67 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Morocco in the 2024 ranking

• Estonia — 51st of 67: 2.69%
• Latvia — 52nd of 67: 2.55%
• Cayman Islands — 53rd of 67: 2.49%
• Israel — 55th of 67: 2.34%
• New Zealand — 56th of 67: 2.29%
• Spain — 57th of 67: 1.89%

What this measures

Adolescents out of school are the percentage of lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in school.

Limitations: The administrative data used in the calculation of the rate of out-of-school children are based on enrolment at a specific date which can bias the results by either counting enrolled children who never attend school or by omitting those who enroll after the reference date for reporting enrolment data. Furthermore, children who drop out of school after the reference date are not counted as out of school. Discrepancies between enrolment and population data from different sources can also result in over- or underestimates of the rate.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 22 values

Adolescents out of school, female (% of female lower secondary school age) in nearby economies

• Algeria — 77.72% (2025)
• Bahrain — 1.82% (2024)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 6.19% (2024)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 7.22% (2023)
• Israel — 2.34% (2024)
• Jordan — 2.9% (2024)
• Kuwait — 15.07% (2021)
• Lebanon — 30.47% (2024)

More education data for Morocco

• Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 12 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) — 106.37% (2024)
• Primary education, pupils — 4.61 million (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 116.59% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 115.44% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 117.68% (2024)
• Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort)

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Questions people ask

What is Morocco's adolescents out of school, female (% of female lower secondary school age)?

2.39% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1999?

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.SEC.UNER.LO.FE.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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