Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Canada instead of Malta, you would:
Economy
be 43.7% less likely to live below the poverty line
In Malta, 16.7% live below the poverty line as of 2021. In Canada, however, that number is 9.4% as of 2008.
be 71.6% more likely to be unemployed
In Malta, 3.1% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Canada, that number is 5.4% as of 2023.
Life
be 3.7 times more likely to die during childbirth
In Malta, approximately 3.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Canada, 11.0 women do as of 2020.
Expenditures
spend 11.9% less on education
Malta spends 5.9% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Canada spends 5.2% of total GDP on education as of 2020.
spend 19.4% more on healthcare
Malta spends 10.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Canada, that number is 12.9% of GDP as of 2020.
Geography
see 1026.8 times more coastline
Malta has a total of 197 km of coastline. In Canada, that number is 202,080 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
Canada: At a glance
How big is Canada compared to Malta? See an in-depth size comparison.