Economic growth averaged 4.5% from 2000-2012, but only 3% since then, a relatively low figure for an emerging market. A quarter of Moroccans are either poor or at risk of poverty, a recent World Bank report said, and the kingdom ranks 123rd in the U.N.’s human development index.
The internal challenges facing the national economy are, essentially, unemployment, illegal migration, crime, poverty and the fragility of the middle class.
These difficult conditions, according to some observers, have angered the street where protests are often organized like the Rif movement which erupted in late 2016 after the death of the street vendor Mohsen Fekri. The movement started in the city of Al Hoceïma before spreading to the Rif regions in the north of the country. Protests had escalated and been the most intense since the protests in 2011.
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