Morocco ranked 34th out of 100 countries in a new index by Canadian organisation Expothon assessing the mobilisation of small and medium-sized enterprises, according to the report.
The country has around 1.5 million SMEs, including 600,000 classified as high-potential businesses. Morocco ranked fourth among Arab League member states, behind Egypt in 14th place, Saudi Arabia in 25th and the UAE in 33rd. Saudi Arabia has more than 3.5 million SMEs, while the UAE has around 1.6 million.
India topped the global ranking, with more than 65 million SMEs, followed by China and the United States. Maldives, Chad and Niger were at the bottom of the list.
Expothon said that identifying high-potential companies and supporting them through structured training and artificial intelligence tools could help countries unlock broader economic growth. The organisation argued that SMEs are dynamic and require practical, ongoing support rather than slow bureaucratic or project-based systems.
It also said AI can give entrepreneurs faster access to global knowledge, best practices and capacity building, helping businesses improve products, enter new markets and increase exports. The report emphasised that broad-based prosperity depends on a large base of growing SMEs, rather than only a small number of major companies or foreign investors.
Source: Hespress
