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2.7%
Monthly Unemployment rate: May 2025

0.5 P.P.

from May 2024

2.5%
Annual rate of inflation
(HICP): June 2025

1.2%

Monthly inflation from May 2025

3.7%
General Government Deficit in 2024 as a % of GDP

around 1.1 P.P. from 2023

999
Final deeds of sale of
residential property registered in June 2025

2.7%

over June 2024

€326.2m
Expenditure on Non-Contributory Benefits
in 2024

21.1%

over 2023

574,250
Population
at the end of 2024

1.9%

from the previous year

2.7%
Monthly Unemployment rate: May 2025

2.5%
Annual rate of inflation
(HICP): June 2025

3.7%
General Government Deficit in 2024 as a % of GDP

999
Final deeds of sale of
residential property registered in June 2025

€326.2m
Expenditure on Non-Contributory Benefits
in 2024

574,250
Population
at the end of 2024

Research & Development in Malta: 2023

18 July 2025

In 2023, total expenditure on R&D amounted to €121.0 million, corresponding to 0.6 per cent of GDP, an increase of €16.1 million compared to 2022.
Basic Research was the major R&D activity, while labour costs represented 69.2 per cent of the total R&D expenditure.
The highest proportion of expenditure by scientific field was noted in Engineering and technology, amounting to 51.2 per cent of the total R&D expenditure.
3,460 employees were engaged in R&D, with 1,955 on a part-time basis.
In 2024, the highest disbursements of Government Budget Allocations for R&D (GBARD) were recorded in the R&D financed from General University Funds for Social Sciences.

Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP): June 2025

17 July 2025

Sea transport between Malta and Gozo: Q2/2025

15 July 2025

Inbound Tourism: May 2025

14 July 2025

Index of Industrial Production: May 2025

11 July 2025

International Trade in Goods: May 2025

10 July 2025

World Population Day: 11 July 2025

10 July 2025

Residential Property Transactions: June 2025

09 July 2025

Structural Business Statistics: 2023

08 July 2025

Quarterly Accounts for General Government: Q1/2025

07 July 2025

Residential Property Price Index (RPPI): Q1/2025

04 July 2025

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