MT · 2020 · tespm040
Children at risk of poverty or social exclusion
Malta, 2020
In 2020, Malta's children at risk of poverty or social exclusion decreased by 7.6% compared to 2019, reaching 21.8.
Malta accounts for 92.4% of the EU-27 total of 23.6.
Malta ranks 14th 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 23.2% (from 28.4 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespm040, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.