Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Malta
Malta: Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher was 99.5% in 2017. ▬ Flat
Latest (2017)
99.5%
Change on year
down 0.1%
World rank
18th
of 38 countries
All-time high
99.6%
in 2016
All-time low
99.2%
in 2011
Years of data
8
2010–2017
Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Malta, 2010–2017
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in %.
Analysis
Malta recorded 99.5% for educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in 2017.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.2% over ten years.
Malta ranks 18th of 38 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Countries ranked near Malta
More education data for Malta
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 1,941 (2024)
- Duration of pre primary education, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Duration of pre primary education 2 (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre primary education 3 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 66.6% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 12.9% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 11 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 5 years (2025)
- Primary secondary enrollment completion rates, gaps filled 97.71 (2023)
- School enrollment, primary 97.7% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Malta?
- Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Malta was 99.5% in 2017, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher recorded in Malta?
- The highest recorded value was 99.6% in 2016.
- What is the lowest educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher recorded in Malta?
- The lowest recorded value was 99.2% in 2011.
- How does Malta rank for educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher?
- Malta ranks 18th out of 38 countries with data for 2017.
- Is educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher rising or falling in Malta?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Malta data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher, population 25+ years, non-immigrant background, female (%). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 8 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics).
About this data
February 2026 Data Release