MT · 2019 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Malta, 2019
In 2019, Malta's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 3.7% compared to 2018, reaching 20.6%.
The figure is above the EU-27 average of 18.7%.
Malta ranks 9th 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 16.3% (from 24.6% in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.