Moroccans don’t hesitate to “borrow” or steal their neighbours’ WIFI. This is revealed by a study conducted by the Global Consumer Survey of the German statistics platform Statista.
While Europeans are ranked at the top of the podium, Moroccans and Swiss occupy 4th place in the ranking of countries that use the WiFi network of their neighbors with a positive response rate of 9% of the population. 
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Morocco is the only African country on the list, which is justified by the very high internet penetration rate in the country. Indeed, in 2010, while the average internet penetration rate was only 9.3% on the African continent, Morocco had 52% of its population classified as internet users.
The Statista study was conducted among adults between 2021 and 2022 in several countries and had between 1,000 and 7,000 respondents. It showed that the main users of neighbors’ WiFi were Europeans, with the Dutch and Belgians in the lead, followed by Mexicans who reach 14%, for the top three.
For some of the respondents, this phenomenon is explained by colocation and rental, where it is the owner who pays for internet access or one of the co-tenants who has signed the service contract with the internet operator.
For others, it’s about sharing WiFi with neighbors or using their internet connection without their knowledge. 16% in Belgium and the Netherlands admit to using the Internet of a third party (neighbor or owner) at home.
“This is more than double the share measured in neighboring countries, France and Germany, where respectively 6% and 7% of Internet users admit to breaking into a wireless network located nearby”, notes Statista.
The same source stresses that “the reasons for these discrepancies are not completely clear from reading the survey data alone”.
And to add that depending on the country, intrusion into an encrypted WiFi network may or may not be considered a criminal offence.
The case of the Netherlands is interesting to note since the country does not consider WiFi connection theft to be an offence, which is not the case in France for example.
“We note that it is overall Europeans who are the most fond of this practice, while the United States and China show the lowest rates of Internet users using the WiFi of neighbors (respectively 3% and 2%)” , says the German company.