Morocco

Ease of Doing Business in

Morocco

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for Morocco. The first table lists the overall "Ease of Doing Business" rank (out of 185 economies) and the rankings by each topic. It also lists the economy's distance to frontier (DTF)** measure. The rest of the tables summarize the key indicators for each topic and benchmark against regional and high-income economy (OECD) averages.

Economy Overview

Select All
Economy Summary
Starting a Business
Dealing with Construction Permits
Getting Electricity
Registering Property
Getting Credit
Protecting Investors
Paying Taxes
Trading Across Borders
Enforcing Contracts
Resolving Insolvency
Region Middle East & North Africa
Income Category Lower middle income
Population 32,272,974
GNI Per Capita (US$) 2,970
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
97 93 down -4

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
62.3 62.8 down -0.5
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 56 94 up 38
Dealing with Construction Permits 79 74 up -5
Getting Electricity 92 89 up -3
Registering Property 163 146 up -17
Getting Credit 104 97 up -7
Protecting Investors 100 98 up -2
Paying Taxes 110 107 up -3
Trading Across Borders 47 50 up 3
Enforcing Contracts 88 89 up 1
Resolving Insolvency 86 70 up -16

Economy Profile

1675.7 KB pdf file

Download Now

Doing Business Resources

Doing Business law library Law Library

Search for business laws and regulations in Morocco

 Contributors

See who contributed to Doing Business 2013

 Get all Data

See historical data sets and trends

Subnational Data


Additional Topic

Additional Data

Related Websites

Starting a Business

Info

The challenges of launching a business are shown below. Included are: the number of steps entrepreneurs can expect to go through to launch, the time it takes on average, and the cost and minimum capital required as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) per capita.

DB 2013 Rank 56 DB 2012 Rank 94 Change in Rank up38
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 86.9 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 86.4 Improvement in DTF** (% points) up0.5
YearNew business densityNumber of new limited liability companies
2011 0.563,213
Indicator Morocco Middle East & North Africa OECD

The total number of procedures required to register a firm. A procedure is defined as any interaction of the company founders with external parties (for example, government agencies, lawyers, auditors or notaries).

View methodology Procedures (number)
6 8 5

The total number of days required to register a firm. The measure captures the median duration that incorporation lawyers indicate is necessary to complete a procedure with minimum follow-up with government agencies and no extra payments.

View methodology Time (days)
12 23 12

Cost is recorded as a percentage of the economy’s income per capita. It includes all official fees and fees for legal or professional services if such services are required by law.

View methodology Cost (% of income per capita)
15.5 29.8 4.5

The amount that the entrepreneur needs to deposit in a bank or with a notary before registration and up to 3 months following incorporation and is recorded as a percentage of the economy’s income per capita.

View methodology Paid-in Min. Capital (% of income per capita)
0.0 72.3 13.3
No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 Obtain a "Certificat Négatif" online, which registers the company name at the Regional Investment Center (CRI, Centre Regional d’Investissement) 1 day MAD 230 (MAD 210 + MAD 20 droits de timbres)
2 Deposit paid-in capital in a bank and obtain a bank receipt (attestation de dépot) 1 day no charge
3 Pay stamp duty at Mayor’s office (Commune) 1 day DH 20/page + DH10
4 File documents with CRI to register with the Ministry of Finance for patent tax, with the Tribunal of Commerce, and for social security and taxation 7 days 1% of capital (at least DH1,000) + DH200 (registration fee) + DH 350 (registration at commercial registry) + DH 150 publication fee (DH 8-9/ line in business paper, DH4/ line bulletin officiel).
5 File a declaration with the economic office of the Préfecture (Service Economique de la Commune) 1 day no charge
6 Make a company stamp 1 day MAD 200

** The distance to frontier (DTF) measure shows the distance of each economy to the "frontier," which represents the highest performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies included in Doing Business since each indicator was included in Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 the frontier. Read more...

Explore Economy Data

Explore Economy Data


 - OR -

OTHER OPTIONS

Close