MT · 2018 · tespm040
Children at risk of poverty or social exclusion
Malta, 2018
In 2018, Malta's children at risk of poverty or social exclusion decreased by 0.9% compared to 2017, reaching 22.8.
Malta accounts for 97.4% of the EU-27 total of 23.4.
Malta ranks 15th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 30.9% (from 33.0 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespm040, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.