This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from Hibapress, the Arabic version:
Heba Press
The High Planning Commissioner said that the standard of living of Moroccans is generally improved between 2014 and 2022, because a remarkable improvement was recorded between 2014 and 2019 and slowed between 2019 and 2022, the period which witnessed the “Kofid” pandemic.
The delegate, in a memorandum on the most important results of national research on the standard of living of families 2022/2023, said that the average annual child alimony had moved between the years 2014 and 2022 the national level, which is equivalent to 95.386 dirhams in the urban center and 56. 769 dirhams in the rural center.
At the individual level, the delegate indicated that the average annual alimony of the individual had gone from 15,876 dirhams in 2014 to 20.658 dirhams in 2022, noting that, taking into account fixed prices, the annual alimony of the individual has increased At an annual rate of 1.1% between the years 2014 and 2022, going from 3.1% between the two years 2014 and 2019 to less than 3.1% between 2019 and 2022.
Family consumption: more expenses for food and the drop in entertainment expenses
The share of “food expenditure” went from the total budget of families of 37% in 2014 to 38.2% in 2022, and the share of “housing and energy” spending rose from 23% to 25.4% .
As for “prevention” and “communication” expenses, their fortress, successively, increased from 2.7% to 3.9% and from 2.2% to 2.6%.
On the other hand, the share of “health care” expenses increased from 6.1% to 5.9%, and those related to “transport” from 7.1% to 5.8%.
For its part, the share of expenses for “domestic equipment” increased from 3.2% to 2.3%, while the share of expenses related to “entertainment and culture” rose from 1.9% at 0.5%.
Exacerbation of social differences and the stability of field differences between 2014 and 2022
Between the years 2014 and 2022, the standard of living in the category of 20% of the lowest population was increased each year by 1.1%. This increase is due to an increase of 3.9% during the period between 2014 and 2019, and a decrease of less than 4.6% between 2019 and 2022.
As for the 20% easier category, their standard of living improved each year by 1.4% during the period 2014-2022, by 2.8% between 2014 and 2019, while a decrease in ‘A decrease of 1.7% between 2019 and 2022 was reduced.
With regard to the intermediate category of the population, its standard of living increased by 0.8% between 2014 and 2022, because it experienced an increase of 3.3% between 2014 and 2019, and a decrease of 4.3 % between 2019 and 2022.
Thus, the poorest categories and the most commonly improved groups were known to the level of their lives, while the middle class did not benefit at the same rate, whether growth fruits or redeemed buyout policies.
In this context, the differences in the standard of living, which were measured by the “Jenny” index between 2014 and 2022, were exacerbated, because this indicator increased from 39.5% to 40.5%, after a Decrease in 2019, it reached 38.5%.
As for the gap between the urban and villagers, which is measured by the average standard of living among the residents of the city compared to their counterparts in the villages, it remained at the same level during the years 2014 and 2022 ( 1.9 times), after it decreased to 1.8 times in 2019.
According to the High Commissioner for Planning, social policies have had a concrete impact on poverty reduction, but social groups which are not targeted by these policies have increased their fragility, which caused an increase in the percentage of Families confronted with the risk of falling into the fall in poverty, for the first time, at urban and rural levels.
It should be noted that the reversal of a trend that improves the various indicators between 2019 and 2022, which is the stage characterized by the restaurant “Kofid”, requires re -evaluating the standard of living of families in order to distinguish what is in This turns to what is structural in exchange for what is circumstantial.
It should be noted that the High Commission for Planning completed this national research, between March 2022 and March 2023, with a sample of 18,000 families representing various socio-economic groups and all regions of the kingdom.
This structural research, which comes after a similar research, was completed in 2014 and another partial in 2019, presenting a sophisticated vision of the social and economic dynamics that characterize Moroccan society.
