Poverty & Inequality in Malta

151 indicators covering poverty & inequality for Malta.

IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank
Material and social deprivation rate by tenure status 8.7% 2025 down 45.6% 27th
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion by level of disability 12.1% 2025 down 38.6% 43rd
Severe material and social deprivation rate by level of disability 3.8% 2025 down 49.3% 19th
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion by age and sex 109 Thousand persons 2025 up 13.5% 44th
Material and social deprivation rate by number of items of deprivation 564 Thousand persons 2025 up 30.6% 42nd
Mean number of deprivation items among the deprived 8.2 Average 2025 down 2.4% 21st
Persons who cannot afford a computer by sex, age and a risk of 2.5% 2025 up 8.7% 23rd
Persons not having a computer for other reasons than affordability by 14.2% 2025 up 18.3% 15th
Persons not having a computer for other reasons than affordability by 14.2% 2025 up 18.3% 15th
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion by tenure status 109 Thousand persons 2025 up 13.5% 42nd
Persons who cannot afford a computer by sex, age, and risk of poverty 2.5% 2025 up 8.7% 23rd
Persons who cannot afford a personal car by sex, age and risk of 2.8% 2025 down 12.5% 37th
Persons who cannot afford two pairs of properly fitting shoes by age 4.2% 2025 down 54.8% 7th
Severe material and social deprivation by tenure status 4.1% 2025 down 50.0% 24th
Severe material and social deprivation rate by age and sex 23 Thousand persons 2025 down 34.3% 38th
Share in multidimensional poverty according to national definitions 19.8% 2023 down 19.5% 24th
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion - EU2030 target 109 Thousand persons 2025 up 13.5% 40th
Material deprivation for the 'Durables' dimension, by number of item 95.9% 2020 up 0.1% 3rd
Material and social deprivation rate by age, sex and most frequent 23.7% 2025 up 23.4% 6th
Severe material deprivation rate by age and sex 17 Thousand persons 2020 down 34.6% 44th
Proportion of population below the international poverty line of 0.0% 2015 down 100.0% 62nd
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax 0.3% 2025 down 3.2% 18th
Severe material deprivation rate by tenure status 3.3% 2020 down 49.2% 29th
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion by tenure status - EU 19.0% 2020 down 10.4% 27th
At-risk-of-poverty rate anchored at a fixed moment in time (2019) by 9.8% 2025 down 42.7% 22nd
Severe material and social deprivation by age, sex and most frequent 0 Thousand persons 2025 15th
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion by age and sex - EU 15 Cumulative difference from 2008, in thousands 2020 up 150.0% 15th
Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio 19.0% 2020 down 10.4% 24th
Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio, female 20.5% 2020 down 8.5% 20th
Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio, male 17.6% 2020 down 12.4% 24th
Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio, children 22.1% 2020 down 17.2% 20th