European ranking
18 / 30
Improved by 8 positions since the previous year
Malta: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20
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Country overview
Malta
Current reading for Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20
Latest value
4.50 Ratio
Compared with Europe
-0.2 puntos
Malta is 0.2 points below the European average.
EU: 4.73
Affected population
574.2K
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20
Granularity: Regions
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Malta
—4.50
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At a glance
Malta performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Income quintile share ratio S80/S20, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Malta
In Malta, S80/S20 ratio is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.49 versus 4.73 in 2025, with a gap of 0.24 in the ratio.
Recent trend
In Malta, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 4.69 in 2020 to 4.49 in 2025. The latest step, from 5.07 in 2024 to 4.49 in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Malta, the evidence for Income & Purchasing Power leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.