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IndicatorMLTMaltaMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.92rank #18
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile53.3rank #75
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.64rank #34
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.69rank #22
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.83rank #46
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile63.4rank #59
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.92rank #18
Military spending% GDP0.45%rank #139
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.53rank #28
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile79.6rank #46
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile62.6rank #56
Rule of Law0-100 percentile69.5rank #52
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.83rank #38
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.78rank #25
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.62rank #40
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile73rank #42
Women in parliament% seats29.1%rank #76
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.92rank #15
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment0.88%rank #175
Agriculture value added% GDP0.47%rank #154
Annual working hours per workerhours1,847.8rank #77
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker273,520.7rank #54
Current account balance% GDP7.1%rank #19
Employment-to-population ratio%61.8%rank #58
FDI net inflows% GDP170.1%rank #1
GDPcurrent US$27.77Brank #117
GDP growth%4%rank #72
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$47,906.9rank #25
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $63,655.5rank #17
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $52,155.1rank #29
Government expenditure% GDP33.7%rank #29
Gross capital formation% GDP18.7%rank #101
Gross savings% GDP25.9%rank #51
High-technology exports% manuf. exports45.2%rank #9
Human capital indexindex3.2rank #41
Industry value added% GDP10.1%rank #153
Inflation%2.4%rank #70
Labour force participation rate%63.4%rank #79
Personal remittances received% GDP0.06%rank #152
R&D expenditure% GDP0.65%rank #48
Researchers in R&Dper million2,355rank #36
Tax revenue% GDP24.1%rank #17
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.83rank #27
Trade openness% GDP219%rank #5
Unemployment% labor force2.9%rank #36
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%2.6%rank #28
Vulnerable employment% employment10.1%rank #39
Youth unemployment% ages 15-248.4%rank #53
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-247.4%rank #45
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #1
Basic sanitation access% pop100%rank #1
Child mortalityper 1000.53rank #24
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,406.6rank #34
DTP3 immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Health spending% GDP8.8%rank #47
Infant mortalityper 1k births4.7rank #24
Life expectancyyears83rank #25
Maternal mortalityper 100k8rank #8
Measles immunization% children88%rank #12
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%88%rank #12
Physiciansper 1k4.5rank #14
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m310.8rank #51
Road traffic deathsper 100k4.1rank #15
Smoking prevalence% adults24.6%rank #91
Suicide mortality rateper 100k6.5rank #77
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k15rank #49
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births5.3rank #42
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Adult literacy%93.3%rank #31
Education spending% GDP4.7%rank #59
Expected years of schoolingyears15.9rank #48
Mean years of schoolingyears12.4rank #33
Primary completion rate% relevant age97.1%rank #59
Primary enrollment% gross97.7%rank #108
Secondary enrollment% gross103%rank #41
Tertiary enrollment% gross80.5%rank #23
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0007.7rank #181
Fertility ratebirths/woman1rank #193
Median age of populationyears40.3rank #44
Net migration rateper 1,00012.4rank #17
Populationpeople579,704rank #170
Population growth%1.9%rank #53
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years86.8rank #16
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands535.7rank #172
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age49.1rank #156
Urban population%95.7%rank #5
Climate
CO₂ emissionst1.73Mrank #158
CO₂ per capitat3.2rank #101
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation0%rank #84
Electricity from solar% generation15.5%rank #21
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #80
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita5,013.1rank #45
Forest area% land1.4%rank #191
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita4.4rank #89
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh484rank #60
Renewable electricity%16%rank #71
Renewable energy share%8.6%rank #135
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e2.5rank #26
Society
Asylum seekerspeople16rank #6
Extreme poverty% pop0.4%rank #5
Female labor participation%55.8%rank #76
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10044.5rank #13
Gender Development Indexratio0.98rank #45
Gender Inequality Index0-10.11rank #33
Gini indexindex31.8rank #16
Homicide rateper 100k0.56rank #7
Human Development Index0-10.92rank #18
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.84rank #17
Internet users% pop93.9%rank #33
Life satisfaction0-106.4rank #41
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.8rank #7
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #65
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #30
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #36
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #37
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people8,306rank #96
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people11rank #5
Youth NEET rate%7.7%rank #19
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year0rank #1
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-100.9rank #4
Human hazard & exposure0-100rank #1
INFORM risk score0-101.7rank #6
Lack of coping capacity0-102.9rank #21
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-100.4rank #1
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-104.8rank #27
Natural hazard & exposure0-101.8rank #6
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year0rank #1
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.5rank #6
Vulnerability0-101.9rank #9
Vulnerable groups0-103.1rank #26
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