Morocco Ranks Among the 10 Most Important Military Powers in Africa

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Despite falling six places in the world rankings, the Kingdom’s military and strategic objectives are expected to improve by 2024

Global Firepower (GFP), a website dedicated to military affairs, has been compiling the ranking, which has been updated every year since 2006 and ranks countries according to their military power. The Global Firepower Index for 2023 evaluated the 145 nations, taking into account more than 60 different factors, such as troop size, availability of natural resources, a country’s location and its economic position. The information was collected using the most recent official data for each nation. According to this methodology, each is assigned a “PowerIndex” (PwrIndx) value, which indicates its place in the overall ranking, with a score of 0.000 being the perfect score.

Global Firepower aims to provide a better balance of each state’s actual power by emphasising the range of weapons at a country’s disposal rather than the total amount of weapons it may possess. The formula also allows smaller, more technologically advanced nations to compete with larger, less technologically advanced powers, with unique modifiers, in the form of bonuses and penalties, being applied to further refine the list, which is renewed each year. One special modifier is a nation’s possession of nuclear weapons; although not explicitly stated, these nations automatically receive a score increase.