Supply and Use Tables (SUT) provide a detailed picture of the supply of goods and services by domestic production and imports and the use of goods and services for intermediate consumption and final use (consumption, gross capital formation, exports). They are compiled for 216 products and 95 industries.
For publication purposes, a high level of aggregation was chosen due to confidentiality obligations. The tables are presented at NACE section level in which industries and products are grouped in 18 categories (Annexes 1 and 2). For research purposes, the tables can be further disaggregated and grouped in 44 categories.
The supply table shows the source of the total value of the supply of goods and services at purchasers’ prices, by product, in the Maltese economy. In 2018, the share of domestic production in total supply at purchasers’ prices stood at 63.6 per cent. The share of imports was 33.7 per cent, while the share of net taxes (taxes less subsidies on products) stood at 2.7 per cent (Table 1).
The supply of Agricultural and Services products in the total supply at basic prices mainly originated from the domestic production. Conversely, Industrial products were mainly imported (Chart 1).
Chart 1. Total supply at basic prices by product
No Data Found
The use table at purchasers’ prices shows how the supply of each product was used in the economy across the major types of use identified in national accounting. These use categories are intermediate consumption, final consumption of households, non-profit institutions serving households (NPISH) and general government, gross capital formation and exports (Table 2).
The supply of agricultural products (products A) is mostly used as intermediate consumption of locally produced goods and services (38.9 per cent), with the next most important uses being exports (37.9 per cent) and final consumption (21.8 per cent). The use of these products in gross capital formation is limited (1.3 per cent).
The main use of the supply of industrial products (products B to F) is also intermediate consumption (39.2 per cent), with the rest spread between final consumption (23.7 per cent), exports (22.8 per cent) and gross capital formation (14.3 per cent).
Again, the supply of services (products G to U) is mostly used as intermediate consumption (44.0 per cent), closely followed by exports (39.3 per cent). The next most important use of these products is final consumption (14.7 per cent), while gross capital formation plays a limited role (1.9 per cent) (Chart 2).
Chart 2. Total use at purchasers' prices by product
No Data Found
Additional SUT at previous year’s prices are also available in the data section of this news release. Compiling prices and volumes within an accounting framework of supply and use tables allows to derive economic growth in volume terms and inflation at the sectoral level of the total economy. In addition, price changes and volume growth can be derived for products and industries, and final demand categories. This offers the opportunity to perform detailed analysis, such as that relating to productivity.
Additional Tables and Charts
Methodological Notes
1. The Supply and Use Tables (SUT) relate to the reference year of 2018. They are consistent with the main aggregates published in news release 158/2023.
6. The ESA 2010 GNI Inventory provides a detailed explanation of sources and methods used for estimating GNI in Malta. This inventory is the basis for Eurostat’s assessment of the quality and exhaustiveness of GNI data and their compliance with ESA 2010 in the context of the GNI-based own resources purposes, which is the major source of revenue for the EU budget. The inventory is a reference document that is updated to reflect the latest methodology in place. Reference to the compilation of SUT is available in Chapter 6. The inventory is available on the NSO website.
- The share of domestic production in total supply at prices stood at 63.6 per cent. The share of imports was 33.7 per cent, while the share of net taxes stood at 2.7 per cent.
- The supply of agricultural products is mostly used as intermediate of locally produced goods and services (38.9 per cent), with the next most important uses being exports (37.9 per cent) and final consumption (21.8 per cent).
- The main use of the supply of industrial products is also intermediate consumption (39.2 per cent), with the rest spread between final consumption (23.7 per cent), exports (22.8 per cent) and gross capital formation (14.3 per cent).
- The supply of services is mostly used as intermediate consumption (44.0 per cent), closely followed by exports (39.3 per cent).
