MT · 2025 · tesem020
Early leavers from education and training (age group 18-24)
Malta, 2025
In 2025, Malta's early leavers from education and training (age group 18-24) decreased by 9.5% compared to 2024, reaching 25.8.
Malta accounts for 94.5% of the EU-27 total of 27.3.
Malta ranks 12th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 33.8% (from 39.0 in 2020).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem020, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.