Transport and infrastructure in Morocco

Our listing of the primary types of transport compares the infrastructure of Morocco with the average of all countries in Africa. The traffic routes have noticeable defects in many places and are often not in particularly good condition.

In terms of the length of its rail network, Morocco ranks 98th in the world with 0.06 meters per inhabitant. In total, the rail network is 2,295 kilometers long. Freight traffic on the rails most recently totaled 3.15 billion tons and kilometers traveled. Passenger traffic reached 4.46 billion passenger-kilometers in 2021.

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Road traffic

The network of roads and highways has a total length of 57,300 km. For each of the country's 37.08 million inhabitants, this corresponds to 1.55 meters. This puts Morocco in 185th place in the global ranking. However, the country's size and population density of around 83 inhabitants per km² must also be taken into account. Countries with fewer inhabitants in the same or even larger area naturally achieve quite different values here and have to connect remote areas to the transport network despite a smaller population.

With an average of 6744 traffic fatalities per year (2013 - 2019), road traffic in Morocco is considered rather mixed. This corresponds to 19.0 accident fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year. By comparison, this figure is 12.3 in the USA and 17.0 worldwide.

In Morocco, traffic drives on the right-hand side of the road, i.e. people drive in the right-hand lane and overtake on the left. Oncoming traffic comes toward you on the left side. Here you can also find an overview of all countries with left-hand traffic.

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Morocco
Roadways	57,300 km	1,545.45 km	128.32 m
Railroads	2,300 km	61.90 km	5.14 m
Waterways	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Commercial harbors	93	2.51	0.000
Airports	14	0.38	0.031

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Africa
Roadways	2,997,800 km	2,151.40 km	98.86 m
Railroads	88,600 km	63.57 km	2.92 m
Waterways	68,400 km	49.09 km	2.26 m
Commercial harbors	7,949	5.70	0.000
Airports	413	0.30	0.000

Data sources used

• Global Health Observatory Data Repository (World Health Organization)
• UNCTAD
• Internation Union of Railways (UIC)
• CIA Factbook
• OECD Statistics
• Wikipedia (german)

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