Malta
Malta in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Malta recorded GDP per capita: 47,907 (2025), ranking 35 of 212 worldwide; Population: 579,704 (2025), ranking 170 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 83.0 (2024), ranking 25 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 2.36% (2025), ranking 114 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+10976%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-87%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits above the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 11 of 19 comparable series are higher and 7 are lower.
Its population of 579,704 (2025) makes it one of the smallest populations in this dataset.
18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 27,771,821,560.94 | 2025 | +10976.4% |
| GDP per capita | 47,906.9 | 2025 | +5682.8% |
| GDP growth | 3.96% | 2025 | +61.4% |
| Population | 579,704 | 2025 | +77.5% |
| Population growth | 1.89% | 2025 | +574.0% |
| Urban population | 95.68% | 2025 | +6.2% |
| Inflation | 2.36% | 2025 | -30.2% |
| Life expectancy | 82.96 | 2024 | +21.4% |
| Infant mortality | 4.7 | 2024 | -86.9% |
| CO2 per capita | 3.18 | 2024 | +40.8% |
| GDP (PPP) | 41,860,622,488.58 | 2025 | +1071.9% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 72,210.34 | 2025 | +616.0% |
| Labor participation | 63.98% | 2025 | +28.3% |
| Unemployment | 2.9% | 2025 | -54.3% |
| Electricity access | 100% | 2024 | 0.0% |
| Internet users | 93.86% | 2024 | — |
| Education spending | 4.71% | 2022 | -23.4% |
| Forest area | 1.44% | 2023 | +31.4% |
| Health spending | 8.84% | 2023 | +33.5% |