SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS – MALTA OBSERVATORY
Islands and Small States Institute
Foundation for International Studies,
St. Paul Street, Valletta, VLT 07, Malta
Tel/Fax: +(356) 21248218; +(356) 21252931 Email: si-mo@um.edu.mt
Director: Professor Lino Briguglio
THE BLUE PLAN LIST OF INDICATORS FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
P = Pressure, E = State, R = Response.
The Conf. Column lists the indicators to be discussed during the 11 June conference
The Comp. Column lists the indicators that have been computed for Malta and are being reviewed in collaboration with
the National Office of Statistics
Theme
Demography and population
Standard of living, employment,
social inequities, poverty,
unemployment
N° Type Indicator Name
1
2
3
4
P
R
S
S
5
R
6
P
Conf Comp
POPULATION AND SOCIETY
Population growth rate
Total fertility rate
Women per hundred men in the labour force
Human poverty index (HPI)
Employment rate
8
School enrolment gross ratio
Difference between male and female school
S
enrolment ratios
S Production of cultural goods
9
R
10
R
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
S
S
R
P
P
S
S
18
19
Habitat and urban systems
20
21
Rural and dry areas, mountains 22
P
P
S
S
P
7
Culture, education, training,
awareness improvement
Health, public health
Consumption and production
patterns
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
Share of private and public finances allocated to the
professional training
Public expenditure for the conservation and value
enhancement of natural, cultural and historical
patrimony
Life expectancy at birth
Infant mortality rate
Access to safe drinking water
Annual energy consumption per inhabitant
Number of passenger cars per 100 inhabitants
YES
Main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants
Distribution of food consumption per income decile
LANDS AND AREAS
Urban population growth rate
Loss of agricultural land due to the urbanisation
Urbanisation rate
Floor area per person
Population change in mountain areas
1
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
NO
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
N/A
Theme
N° Type Indicator Name
and hinterland
Forests
Littoral and "littoralisation"
Sea
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
P
S
R
P
P
P
S
S
S
R
P
S
S
S
S
R
40
41
Global economy
Agriculture
Fisheries, aquaculture
Mines, industry
Conf Comp
Existence of program(s) concerning the less
R
favoured rural zones
Exploitation index of forest resources
Forest area
Forest protection rate
Artificialized coastline / total coastline
Number of tourists per km of coastline
Number of moorings in yachting harbours
Population growth in Mediterranean coastal regions
Population density in coastal regions
Coastline erosion
Protected coastal area
Oil tanker traffic
Global quality of coastal waters
Density of the solid waste disposed in the sea
Coastal waters quality in some main “hot spots”
Quality of biophysical milieu
Protection of specific ecosystems
Existence of monitoring programs concerning
R
pollutant inputs
Wastewater treatment rate before sea release for
R
coastal agglomerations over 100 000 inhabitants
42 R Harbour equipment ratio in unballasting facilities
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AND SUSTAINABILITY
43 P Distribution of GDP (Agriculture, Industry, Services)
44 P Foreign Direct Investment
45 S External debt / GDP
46 S Saving / investment
47 S Public deficit / GDP
48 S Current payments / GDP
Employment distribution (Agriculture, Industry,
49 S
Services)
50 P Use of agricultural pesticides
51 P Use of fertilisers per hectare of agricultural land
52 P Share of irrigated agricultural land
53 P Agriculture water demand per irrigated area
54 S "Arable land" per capita
55 S Rate of food dependence
56 S Annual average of wheat yield
57 R Water use efficiency for irrigation
58 P Value of halieutic catches at constant prices
59 P Number and average power of fishing boats
60 S Fishing production per broad species groups
61 S Production of aquaculture
62 R Public expenditures on fish stocks monitoring
63 P Industrial Releases into water
2
YES
YES
NO
NO
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
NO
YES
NO
NO
YES
Theme
N° Type Indicator Name
64
65
66
Services and commerce
Conf Comp
S
Intensity of material use
Number of mines and carries rehabilitated after
R
exploitation
Turnover distribution of commerce according to the
S
number of employees
67
S
68
R
69
70
P
P
71
R
72
P
73
74
75
76
S
S
R
P
77
P
78
79
80
81
82
83
P
P
P
S
S
R
84
85
P
P
86
S
87
S
88
R
89
R
Existence of economic tools to recover the water
cost in various sector
90
91
92
Soils, vegetation and
93
desertification
94
95
96
Biological diversity, ecosystems 97
98
99
Solid, industrial and hazardous 100
R
R
P
S
S
P
P
P
S
R
P
Drinking water use efficiency
Share of Industrial wastewater treated on site
Ratio of land exploitation
Land use change
"Arable land" change
Wetland area
Number of turtles catched per year
Share of fishing fleet using barge
Threatened species
Total expenditure on protected areas management
Generation of municipal solid waste
Energy
Transports
Tourism
Freshwater and
Wastewater
Share of merchant services to the enterprises
Existence of legislations on the hypermarket setting
up restriction
Energy intensity
Energy balance
Share of consumption of renewable energy
resources
Average annual distance covered per passenger
car
Structure of transport by mode
Density of the road network
Share of collective transport
Number of nights per 100 inhabitants
Number of secondary homes over total number of
residences
Number of bed-places per 100 inhabitants
Public expenditure on tourism development
Number of international tourists per 100 inhabitants
Share of tourism receipts in the exportations
Currency balance due to tourism activities
Public expenditure on tourism sites conservation
ENVIRONMENT
Exploitation index of renewable resources
Non-sustainable water production index
Share of distributed water not conform to quality
standards
Water global quality index
Share of collected and treated wastewater by the
public sewerage system
3
NO
YES
NO
NO
NO
YES
YES
YES
NO
NO
NO
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
NO
YES
NO
NO
YES
NO
NO
YES
YES
NO
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
NO
NO
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
Theme
N° Type Indicator Name
waste
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
Air quality
P
P
P
S
S
R
R
R
R
P
P
P
P
S
R
116 R
Conf Comp
Generation of hazardous wastes
Imports and exports of hazardous wastes
Generation of industrial solid waste
Area of land contaminated by hazardous wastes
Distribution of municipal wastes
Minimisation of waste production
Cost recovery index of municipal wastes
Destination of household wastes
Collection rate of household wastes
Emissions of greenhouse gasses
Emissions of sulphur oxides
Emissions of nitrogen oxides
Consumption of ozone depleting substances
Frequency of excess over air standard (ozone)
Expenditure on air pollution abatement
Share of agglomerations over 100 000 inhabitants
equipped with a air pollution monitoring network
118 P Number of sites with high risk
119 S Economic impact of natural disasters
Natural and technological risks
120 S Burnt area per year
121 R Existence of intervention plans
THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ACTORS AND POLICIES
Number of direct employments linked to the
122 R
environment
Number of associations involved in environment
Actors of the sustainable
123 R
development
and/or sustainable development
124 R
Number of enterprises engaged in “environment
management" processes
125 R
Public expenditure on environmental protection as
a percent of GDP
126 R
127 R
YES
YES
129 P
Net migration rate
130 R
Public development assistance coming from abroad
4
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
NO
YES
YES
YES
NO
NO
NO
YES
YES
NO
YES
NO
YES
Existence of environment national plans and/or
YES
sustainable development strategies
Number of Agendas 21 adopted by local authorities
EXCHANGES AND COOPERATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
128 P Openness rate of GDP
International trade, Free trade
zone and environment
Others Mediterranean
exchanges
Mediterranean cooperation in
the fields of environment and
sustainable development
YES
Share of clean fuels consumption in total motor
fuels consumption
117 R
Policies and strategies of the
sustainable development
YES
YES
YES
YES
NO
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES