European ranking
28 / 30
Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year
Malta: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Malta
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
4.70 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
-14.6 puntos
Malta is 14.6 points below the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 0.03 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Malta performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to clearer recent change. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Malta
In Malta, Overcrowding stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 4.7% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 13.9 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Malta, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 4.20% in 2020 to 4.70% in 2025. Although the primary period is broadly stable, the latest step, from 3.70% in 2024 to 4.70% in 2025, shows material deterioration and provides a clearer recent signal.
Reading within the topic
In Malta, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress 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.