Country profile · MT
Malta
2 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →
Population
574.3k
GDP
€23.1B
GDP per capita
€40,218
Population density
1,861 /km²
Unemployment
3.1%
pop-weighted
Employment
83.6%
pop-weighted
Area
308.5 km²
NUTS-3 regions
2
Country indicators · 69 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€21.4B
country total
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€114M
country total
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1.6B
country total
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1.3B
country total
GVA — construction (F)
€801M
country total
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€6.6B
country total
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€21,200
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
43,835 PPS
pop-weighted avg
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€40,543
pop-weighted avg
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€8.6B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€455M
country total · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€19.4B
country total · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1.8B
country total
GVA — information & communication (J)
€2.7B
country total
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€7.2B
country total
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5.0B
country total
Labour market
Employment, total persons
325.2k
country total
Self-employed persons
44.9k
country total
Employment in manufacturing (C)
25k
country total
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
82.6%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
9.6%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
56.4k
country total
Enterprise births
9.7k
country total
Enterprise deaths
3.7k
country total
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.2%
pop-weighted avg
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
4.5
country total
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
11 /M
pop-weighted avg
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
37.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
47.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
19.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
22.1%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.0%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
97.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
11.3m
country total
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
576 /1k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1
country total
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
0.2
pop-weighted avg
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
10.9
pop-weighted avg
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
country total
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
398.7k
country total
Population aged 65+
105.9k
country total
Population aged under 15
69.6k
country total
Median age of population
40.1 yrs
pop-weighted avg
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
26.6%
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of total population change
19.0 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
18.6 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude birth rate
7.7 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude death rate
7.4 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Live births
4.4k
country total
Deaths
4.2k
country total
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
44.1%
pop-weighted avg
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.02
pop-weighted avg
Population density (persons per km²)
2,043 /km²
pop-weighted avg
Social
Life expectancy at birth
83.0 yrs
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
904 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
193 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.9 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
43.7 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
129 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
751 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
21 /M
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
93 m
pop-weighted avg
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
30 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
environment
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14.2
pop-weighted avg
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
68.1
pop-weighted avg
Largest regions by GDP