EU 6.25
· European ranking
32 / 34
No change compared with previous year
Malta: Unemployment rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
3.10% of labour force
EU 6.25 · -3.1 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force aged 15 to 74.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
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At a glance
Malta performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, 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, Unemployment rate is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 3.1% versus 6.3% in 2025, with a gap of 3.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Malta, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 4.90% in 2020 to 3.10% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 3.20% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.
Reading within the topic
In Malta, the evidence for Employment & Economic Security leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.