Malta: Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Malta's agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth) fell 869.85 percentage points on 2024 (from 846.61% to -23.23%).

Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2002 to 2024), the average change was +35.99 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 196.67 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 4.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 927.07 percentage points in 2024 and the biggest yearly fall was 869.85 percentage points in 2025. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 13% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2025, Malta had the 163rd highest value of the 162 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Malta in the 2025 ranking

• Türkiye — 159th of 162: -8.8%
• Estonia — 160th of 162: -10.24%
• Iraq — 161st of 162: -16.78%

What this measures

Agriculture, forestry, and fishing corresponds to ISIC (Rev. 4) divisions 01-03 and includes the exploitation of vegetal and animal natural resources, comprising the activities of growing of crops, raising and breeding of animals, harvesting of timber and other plants, animals or animal products from a farm or their natural habitats.Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.

Limitations: Among the difficulties faced by compilers of national accounts is the extent of unreported economic activity in the informal or secondary economy. In developing countries a large share of agricultural output is either not exchanged (because it is consumed within the household) or not exchanged for money. Agricultural production often must be estimated indirectly, using a combination of methods involving estimates of inputs, yields, and area under cultivation. This approach sometimes leads to crude approximations that can differ from the true values over time and across crops for reasons other than climate conditions or farming techniques.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 25 values

Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 2.63% (2024)
• Algeria — 5.19% (2025)
• Bahrain — 3.67% (2025)
• Djibouti — 7.52% (2025)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 2.76% (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — -5.58% (2025)
• Iraq — -16.78% (2025)
• Israel — -16.91% (2024)
• Jordan

More economic policy & debt data for Malta

• Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$1.54 billion (2025)
• Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$1.49 billion (2025)
• Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing) — 46.54% (2023)
• Textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) — 1.23% (2023)
• Chemicals (% of value added in manufacturing) — 6.47% (2023)
• Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) — 30.86% (2023)
• Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) — US$14.36 billion (2025)
• Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) — 51.71% (2025)
• General government final consumption expenditure (current US$)

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Questions people ask

What is Malta's agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth)?

-23.23% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2001?

It is down 42.17 percentage points from 18.93% in 2001. The highest value was 846.61% in 2024 and the lowest -80.45% in 2023.

How does Malta rank?

163rd highest of 162 economies with data for 2025.

Is the latest change in agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth) unusual for Malta?

In 2025, Malta's agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth) fell 869.85 percentage points on 2024 (from 846.61% to -23.23%). Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2002 to 2024), the average change was +35.99 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 196.67 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 4.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NV.AGR.TOTL.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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