How many people are imprisoned in Morocco?

Morocco's prison population is 99,366 people. This figure aggregates all forms of detention counted by the source: sentenced prisoners, pre-trial detainees, and administrative detentions.

What is the incarceration rate in Morocco?

Morocco's incarceration rate is approximately 253 people per 100,000 population.

How many prisons are there in Morocco?

World Prisons indexes 150 individual facilities in Morocco. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

Does Morocco have the death penalty?

Morocco's death-penalty status is: abolitionist-in-practice. Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

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Africa · Northern Africa

Morocco

High confidence

Verified 20 May 2026 · Data dated 31 Dec 2025

Fresh · 2mo ago

DGAPR publishes annual reports including conditions and overcrowding figures.

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Prison population

99,366

Year: 2025

Rate per 100,000

253

Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

153.3%

Severely overcrowded

Pre-trial / remand

37.6%

Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

2.5%

Foreign nationals

1.7%

Figures from official sources · verified 20 May 2026 · methodology

Conditions risk — across 150 facilities

Average of our computed Conditions Risk Score across the country's facilities. Methodology · Browse highest-risk

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national average

150 unknown

abolitionist in practice on capital punishment. Last known execution: 1993.Methods: firing squadICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): not a signatory

Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.

How Morocco compares

vs Africa (8) & global averages

Rate per 100,000this: 253 · region: 184 · global: 214

Occupancy ratethis: 153% · region: 162% · global: 125%

Pre-trial sharethis: 38% · region: 34% · global: 32%

The vertical ticks mark the global (grey) and regional (amber) means. Bars are clipped at the high end for readability.

Prison population over time

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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See all 150 prisons in Morocco →

Data completeness

100%

Score based on how many fields are populated. We surface this so you know where the gaps are.

National population: 39,210,0002025
Source-verified: 20 May 2026
Source links: 1 cited

Sources

Direct citations for the figures on this page.

Primary reference
World Prison Brief (ICPS, Birkbeck) — Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research
See /data-sources for our methodology.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: MAR

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APA

World Prisons. (2026). Morocco — prison statistics. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/countries/morocco

Chicago

"Morocco — prison statistics." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/countries/morocco.

BibTeX

@misc{worldprisons-morocco,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Morocco — prison statistics},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/morocco},
  urldate = {2026-07-21}
}