Key Indicators
Income Group High income
Regional Group Europe
Population (Total) 574,346
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) 73,259

Performance Overview

ISO3

MLT

Country

Malta

Score

60.97

Rank

22

Input

23

Output

24

Enable

58.84

Attract

78.69

Grow

51.50

Retain

72.09

VT

57.85

GA

46.87

Pillar: Enable Score: 58.84Rank: 34
SCORERANK

Regulatory Landscape

64.49 39

1. Government effectiveness

58.1949

2. Rule of law

69.2935

3. Political stability

86.3717

4. Regulatory quality

62.6039

5. Corruption

46.0054

Market Landscape

54.97 48

1. Extent of market dominance

50.6052

2. Domestic credit to private sector

29.2145

3. Cluster development

46.3570

4. R&D expenditure

9.5358

5. Population covered by at least a 3G mobile network

100.001

6. Internet access in schools

n/an/a

7. Urbanisation

94.116

Business & Labour Landscape

57.06 30

1. Labour rights

85.2062

2. Labour-employer cooperation

64.6347

3. Professional management

60.8360

4. Relationship of pay to productivity

51.0054

5. Enterprise software

26.9636

6. Cloud computing

22.7340

7. Firms with website

88.1016
Pillar: Attract Score: 78.69Rank: 4
SCORERANK

External Openness

83.06 5

1. FDI regulatory restrictiveness

n/an/a

2. Financial globalisation

97.714

3. Migrant stock

70.6610

4. International students

100.001

5. Brain gain

63.8622

6. AI skills migration

n/an/a

Internal Openness

74.32 23

1. Tolerance of minorities

80.8510

2. Tolerance of immigrants

75.3832

3. Social mobility

65.0041

4. Economic empowerment of women

91.2536

5. Gender parity in high-skilled jobs

68.2079

6. Leadership opportunities for women

65.2265
Pillar: Grow Score: 51.50Rank: 27
SCORERANK

Formal Education

32.25 41

1. Vocational enrolment

26.2249

2. Tertiary enrolment

47.4621

3. Tertiary education expenditure

37.2914

4. Reading, maths, and science

50.3038

5. University ranking

0.0079

Lifelong Learning

51.47 25

1. Business masters education

0.0064

2. Prevalence of training in firms

86.314

3. Employee development

68.1030

Access to Growth Opportunities

70.79 18

1. Delegation of authority

59.4554

2. Youth inclusion

88.4218

3. Use of virtual social networks

68.4659

4. Use of virtual professional networks

66.8213
Pillar: Retain Score: 72.09Rank: 29
SCORERANK

Sustainability

62.99 37

1. Pension coverage

82.7565

2. Social protection

63.7531

3. Brain retention

55.8339

4. Environmental performance

66.9013

5. Vulnerable employment

87.7538

6. Protect Against Future Disasters

27.3396

7. Household Financial Resilience

56.5831

Lifestyle

81.19 20

1. Personal rights

82.4032

2. Personal safety

87.4916

3. Physician density

67.3118

4. Sanitation

99.959

5. Employee Wellbeing / Happiness score (life ladder)

68.7846
Pillar: Vocational and Technical Skills (VT) Score: 57.85Rank: 45
SCORERANK

Mid-level Skills

50.01 50

1. Workforce with secondary education

46.3958

2. Population with secondary education

40.2262

3. Technicians and associate professionals

58.7831

4. Labour productivity per employee

54.6628

Employability

65.69 49

1. Ease of finding skilled employees

40.35125

2. Relevance of education system to the economy

53.2944

3. Skills matching

77.9826

4. Highly educated unemployment

91.1318
Pillar: Generalist Adaptive Skills (GA) Score: 46.87Rank: 21
SCORERANK

High-level Skills

44.78 26

1. Workforce with tertiary education

52.6030

2. Soft Skills

54.5565

3. Professionals

41.6531

4. Researchers

22.4538

5. Senior officials and managers

61.477

6. Digital skills

35.9316

7. AI talent concentration

n/an/a

Talent Impact

48.97 19

1. ICT services exports

9.5481

2. Mobile apps development

71.4731

3. Intellectual property receipts (% of total trade)

91.755

4. High-value exports

67.616

5. Software development

30.0135

6. New business density

31.9722

7. Scientific journal articles

40.4330

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