As of 2019, 28.5 percent of the violated women in Morocco bore direct and indirect costs as a result of violations committed in their regard. In the 12 months preceding 2019, violent acts committed against women in the country accumulated a total cost of approximately 2.8 billion Moroccan dirhams (roughly 3.1 million U.S. dollars). Direct costs were the most borne by the abused women, reaching 2.3 billion Moroccan dirhams, around 2.6 million U.S. dollars. Furthermore, at the said date, expenses emanating from physical violence significantly outweighed that of sexual violence. Overall in Morocco, females between the ages of 15 and 19 years were the most violated in 2019.
Cost accumulated from violence committed against women in Morocco as of 2019, by type of cost
(in million Moroccan dirhams)
cost borne by violated women; physical and sexual violence
Supplementary notes
The number of respondents was reached by expressing 28.5 (share of women who bore costs from violence) as a percentage of the total number of violated women (n=7,654).
The source adds the following information: "The national survey on violence against women in 2019, provides, for the first time in Morocco, a national data support for analysis to estimate the direct or indirect economic costs of violence against women and girls borne by individuals and their households in all living spaces and for forms of physical and sexual violence in the last 12 months."
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Haut-Commissariat au plan. (January 19, 2021). Cost accumulated from violence committed against women in Morocco as of 2019, by type of cost (in million Moroccan dirhams) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1207730/economic-cost-of-violence-against-women-in-morocco-by-type/
Haut-Commissariat au plan. "Cost accumulated from violence committed against women in Morocco as of 2019, by type of cost (in million Moroccan dirhams)." Chart. January 19, 2021. Statista. Accessed July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1207730/economic-cost-of-violence-against-women-in-morocco-by-type/
Haut-Commissariat au plan. (2021). Cost accumulated from violence committed against women in Morocco as of 2019, by type of cost (in million Moroccan dirhams). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1207730/economic-cost-of-violence-against-women-in-morocco-by-type/
Haut-Commissariat au plan. "Cost Accumulated from Violence Committed against Women in Morocco as of 2019, by Type of Cost (in Million Moroccan Dirhams)." Statista, Statista Inc., 19 Jan 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1207730/economic-cost-of-violence-against-women-in-morocco-by-type/
Haut-Commissariat au plan, Cost accumulated from violence committed against women in Morocco as of 2019, by type of cost (in million Moroccan dirhams) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1207730/economic-cost-of-violence-against-women-in-morocco-by-type/ (last visited July 22, 2024)
Cost accumulated from violence committed against women in Morocco as of 2019, by type of cost (in million Moroccan dirhams) [Graph], Haut-Commissariat au plan, January 19, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1207730/economic-cost-of-violence-against-women-in-morocco-by-type/
