EU 29.09
· European ranking
28 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Malta: Financial Vulnerability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
18.70% of people
EU 29.09 · -10.4 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people living in households that cannot afford to meet an unexpected necessary financial expense from their available resources.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Inability to face unexpected financial expenses ilc_mdes04
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Internal regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Malta performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Malta
In Malta, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 18.7% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 10.4 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Malta, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 16.30% in 2020 to 18.70% in 2025. The latest step, from 18.30% in 2024 to 18.70% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Malta, Poverty & Financial Vulnerability shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.