Malta: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report

International Monetary Fund

No 2026/029, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: Malta's economy has grown rapidly over the past decade, with per capita income nearly doubling since 2013. Growth averaged close to 7 percent annually, led by labor-intensive tourism, online gaming, and professional services, and was supported by inflows of foreign workers. Labor-driven growth supported by immigration, is expected to continue in the medium term but slow in the longer term as Malta, an island economy with the highest population density in the EU, cannot sustain further substantial population and labor force growth through immigration. Without adequate policy and structural reform measures, the inevitable deceleration in labor force growth would weigh on potential output and limit actual growth.

Keywords: taxpayer Compliance Risk Management; Imf executive board; exchange rate arrangement; fund holding; arrangement of the euro area; currency of Malta; Labor markets; Income; Global; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 67
Date: 2026-02-06
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=573741 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:imf:imfscr:2026/029

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/pubs/ord_info.htm

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC USA. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Akshay Modi ().