The ESI measures countries’ “distance to the ideal” performance. This ideal performance is chosen as the highest achieved by any country over a period of 7 years. The ideal performance is scaled to be 100 and the scores of all countries are then computed and compared to that.

For the index as a whole Malta ranks 13^th in the 2020 release, a great improvement compared to the 19^th position in 2018, with a poor score for the skills development pillar, but second highest for the skills matching pillar. These results place Malta in the “middle-achieving” group for 2020.

For the skills matching pillar, Malta ranks 2^nd, with an “overqualification rate (tertiary graduates)” score close to the best in the EU (rank 3^rd). Among the indicators of this pillar, Malta performs the poorest in “low-waged earners (ISCED 5-8)” (rank 15^th)

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