Malta Relocation Index

How Malta scores

Relative peace and safety for relocation | Strong civil-rights/rule-of-law baseline via EU membership

• Peace and conflict safety76
• Immigrant safety74
• Visa accessibility68
• Residence permit realism64
• Labor market access73
• Healthcare70
• Civil rights87
• Discrimination safety82
• Status security61
• Infrastructure reliability73
• Cost of living sustainability75

Recent news impact

In the last ~45 days, available Malta-related announcements point mainly to routine migration administration capacity and ongoing security/border cooperation rather than a clear, newly enacted measure that would materially change short-term relocation safety, legal access, or immigrant treatment. Therefore, no distinct news-driven negative or positive relocation shock is detected; the net news impact remains neutral.

Sources

• 2025 Rule of Law Report - Country Chapter on the rule of law situation in Malta (Commission Staff Working Document)European Commission (EUR-Lex)
• Malta: health system summary 2024 (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies / WHO Europe)European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (WHO Europe)
• The health system (European Commission health system profile; Malta description)European Commission (DG Health and Food Safety)
• OECD: Malta Country Health Profile 2023 (PDF) (out-of-pocket spending)OECD
• Eurostat news: People at risk of poverty—housing cost share (includes Malta figures)Eurostat
• OECD Affordable Housing Database (dataset landing page)OECD
• Council of Europe CPT report on Malta sixth periodic visit (Sep/Oct 2023) (CPT/Inf)Council of Europe (CPT)
• Identità (Malta): Expatriates Unit—Non-EU Employment—Long-Term Residence (long-term residents, integration requirements)Identità (Malta)