MT · 2018 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Malta, 2018
In 2018, Malta's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex increased by 0.9% compared to 2017, reaching 21.4%.
The figure is above the EU-27 average of 19.6%.
Malta ranks 8th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 12.7% (from 24.5% in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.