Supply and Use Tables: 2019
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 (Table 1) shows the source of the total value of the supply of goods and services at purchasers’ prices, by product, in the Maltese economy. In 2019, the share of domestic production in total supply at purchasers’ prices stood at 66.4 per cent. The share of imports was 30.7 per cent, while the share of net taxes (taxes less subsidies on products) stood at 2.9 per cent.
Chart 1 provides further detail on the shares of domestic production and imports in total supply at basic prices by product.
Chart 1. Total supply at basic prices by product
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The use table at purchasers’ prices (Table 2) 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 and general government, gross capital formation and exports.
Chart 2 shows the composition of each type of use by type of product at purchasers’ prices. The supply of agricultural products (products A) was mostly used as intermediate consumption of locally produced goods and services (43.0 per cent), with the next most important use being exports (31.3 per cent) and final consumption (27.5 per cent). The use of these products in gross capital formation was limited (-1.8 per cent) mainly due to changes in inventories.
The main use of the supply of industrial products (products B to F) was also intermediate consumption (39.1 per cent), with the rest spread between exports (22.8 per cent), final consumption (22.7 per cent) and gross capital formation (15.4 per cent).
Again, the supply of services (products G to U) was mostly used as intermediate consumption (42.1 per cent), closely followed by exports (35.8 per cent). The next most important use of these products is final consumption (19.5 per cent), while gross capital formation played a limited role (2.6 per cent).
Chart 2. Total use at purchasers' prices by product
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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.
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Methodological Notes
1. The Supply and Use Tables (SUT) relate to the reference year of 2019. They are consistent with the main aggregates published in news release 159/2024.
2. The SUT are in line with the European System of Accounts (ESA) 2010 Manual (ISBN 978-92-79-31242-7). This system of accounts is mandatory for all EU Member States. The accounts are subject to audit by the European Court of Auditors and Eurostat’s GNI Committee to ensure reliability, comparability and exhaustiveness. The SUT for Malta are entirely consistent with the requirements for both current prices and previous year’s prices outlined in the ESA of 2010. The compilation and balancing procedures implemented to produce these tables follow those recommended by the Eurostat Manual of Supply, Use and Input-Output Tables, 2008 edition.
6. The ESA 2010 GNI Inventory provides a detailed explanation of sources and methods used for estimating GNI in Malta. It 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 for own resources purposes. 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.
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Supply and Use Tables: 2019
- The share of domestic production in total supply at purchasers’ prices stood at 66.4 per cent. The share of imports was 30.7 per cent, while the share of net taxes (taxes less subsidies on products) stood at 2.9 per cent.
- The supply of agricultural products was mostly used as intermediate consumption of locally produced goods and services (43.0 per cent), with the next most important use being exports (31.3 per cent) and final consumption (27.5 per cent).
- The main use of the supply of industrial products was also intermediate consumption (39.1 per cent), with the rest spread between exports (22.8 per cent), final consumption (22.7 per cent) and gross capital formation (15.4 per cent).
- The supply of services was mostly used as intermediate consumption (42.1 per cent), closely followed by exports (35.8 per cent).
