Malta

Key:
	Indicator is moving in a upward trajectory (Based on 2008-2012 trend)
	Indicator is moving in a downward trajectory (Based on 2008-2012 trend)

Above average
	1 ≥ standard deviations
	0.7 standard deviations
	0.4 standard deviations
	0.1 standard deviations

Below average
	1 ≥ standard deviations
	0.7 standard deviations
	0.4 standard deviations
	0.1 standard deviations

Population	School Aged Pop	Birth Rate	GDP/pc (Constant)	Inequality (Gini)	Human Development Index
420,000	12%	1.4	$18,000	28.2	0.83 (Very High)

Pre-Primary

99 Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Grade 1 Entrants With ECCE Experience 70%	School Life Expectancy (years) 2.60

Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.8 standard deviations and growing by 0.6 per year
ECCE Experience	Above average by 1.5 standard deviations and has little recorded momentum
School Life Expectancy	Below average by 11.6 standard deviations and growing by 0.03 per year

Primary

98 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Out-Of-School Children Change (2000-2015) -74%	School Life Expectancy (years) 5.63

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0,8 standard deviations and growing by 1.1 per year
Out-Of-School Children	An estimated 74% decrease between 2000 and 2015, falling by 110 children per year
School Life Expectancy	Below average by 6.4 standard deviations and growing by 0.01 per year

Lower Secondary

90 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Out-Of-School Children Change (2000-2015) %	School Life Expectancy (years) 6.93

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 2.4 standard deviations and growing by 0.8 per year
Out-Of-School Children	Insufficient data available
School Life Expectancy	Above average by 3.2 standard deviations and growing by 0.03 per year

Upper Secondary

70 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Youth Unemployment 13.21%	Gross Enrolment Ratio 99.48

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 1.8 standard deviations and growing by 1.5 per year
Youth Unemployment	Above average by 0.3 standard deviations and growing by 0.1 per year
Gross Enrolment Ratio	Above average by 3.7 standard deviations and growing by 0.1 per year

Inequality

Disabilities

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol

Signed the Convention

Ratified the Convention

Signed the Protocol

Ratified the Protocol

	Pre-primary	Primary	Lower Secondary	Upper Secondary
Gender Parity Index 2015 Est.	0.8	0.92	1.35	1.07

		Urban	Rural
Urban-Rural	Primary Dropout Rate	1.9	2.8

		Top 20%	Bottom 20%
Income	Students with 1 Year ECCE	59%	47%
Income	Primary Dropout Rate	2.1%	3%

Shadow Education	Statistics reported in a 2013 publication indicated that between 37.6% and 51.9% of primary students were receiving private tutoring and up to 82.9% at secondary level.

Quality

Funding (% of GDP)	Funding (% of Budget)
15.61%	40.95%

Youth Literacy Rate	Adult Literacy Rate
89%	79%

Learning (Students at Lowest Benchmark)		Learning (Students at Highest Benchmark)
Math	12% ‡	Math	4% ‡
Science	30% ‡	Science	2% ‡
Reading	22% ‡	Reading	4% ‡

Pre-primary		Primary		Lower Secondary		Upper Secondary
Funding (% of GDP)	1.01	Funding (% of GDP)	1.32	Funding (% of GDP)	1.89	Funding (% of GDP)
Teacher-Student Ratio	6	Teacher-Student Ratio	25	Teacher-Student Ratio	7	Teacher-Student Ratio	9
Trained Teachers	68%	Trained Teachers	84%	Trained Teachers	74%	Trained Teachers	77%