Archive:Europe 2020 indicators - Malta
- Data from July 2013. Most recent data: Further Eurostat information, Main tables.
This article is part of a set of statistical articles based on the Eurostat publication Smarter, greener, more inclusive - Indicators to support the Europe 2020 strategy. It provides recent statistics on the Europe 2020 strategy of the European Union (EU), focusing on the situation in Malta.
Main statistical findings
Malta has achieved the fastest progress of all Member States towards itsearly school leaving target. In 2012 the country already exceeded its target on reducing the number of early school leavers from education and training by 6.4 percentage points. Despite the adverse economic situation, Malta experienced a pronounced increase in its employment rate. In 2012 Malta was the only country exceeding its national target, with an employment rate of 63.1 %. In addition, in 2011 Malta exceeded its R&D benchmark, although it has to be noted that the target is set at a much lower level than the EU average. There is scope for improvement in the areas of tertiary educational attainment, renewable energies and GHG emissions in order for the relevant indicators to be brought in line with the national targets. The target gap was particularly large for the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption (9.6 percentage points in 2012), with only three countries being farther from their national targets than Malta.
Context
Measures implemented to meet the national targets
- Employment: Addressing the shadow labour market; projects supporting the integration of disabled and other disadvantaged people in the labour market; incentives for increasing labour market participation of women and young people.
- R&D expenditure: Adoption of a New National Research and Innovation Strategy; launch of a doctoral and post-doctoral scheme; establishing incentives for R&D in industry; provision of funding for addressing bottlenecks in the commercialisation of innovative ideas.
- Climate change and energy: Increasing energy efficiency in transport; action plan for the implementation of large scale wind, solar, and waste to energy projects; scrappage scheme encouraging the purchase of environmentally friendly vehicles; support scheme for the installation of photovoltaic panels in households.
- Education: Strengthening student services and launching other support initiatives to prevent absenteeism and school drop-outs; scheme for monitoring families with high tendency for school absenteeism; extension of vocational education subjects; new scholarship schemes in higher education.
- Poverty: Fighting child poverty including the provision of training for lone parents; introducing reforms in the pension system and supplementary allowance system; incentives and support measures aimed at increasing the labour market participation rate of disabled people.
The European Commission's 2013 country-specific recommendations
- Employment: Further measures are still needed for enhancing the labour market participation of women such as the provision of flexible working arrangements and the enhancement of child-care services.
- Education: Take measures for increasing the labour market relevance of education.
- Climate change and energy: Continued efforts are needed in promoting energy efficiency and reducing emissions from transport.
- Others: Speed up the planned pension reform; link the retirement age to life expectancy; pursue a strict supervision of the banking sector to prevent the accumulation of imbalances; improve cost-effectiveness of the healthcare sector; step up reforms in the judicial system.
See also
Further Eurostat information
Publications
- Smarter, greener, more inclusive - indicators to support the Europe 2020 strategy (online publication, also downloadable as PDF file)
Main tables
Dedicated section
Methodology / Metadata
- Towards robust quality management for European Statistics - Communication from the Commission COM(2011) 211 final
Other information
- Regulation 223/2009 of 11 March 2009 on European statistics