LGBTQI Inclusive Education Map

The highest possible score for a country is 100, and the lowest is -15. You can expand the different sections below to understand how the score was calculated for each indicator.

Indicator scores

Sexual orientation

Gender identity and expression

Sex characteristics (intersex)

No evidence of compulsory national curricula inclusive of LGBTQI people: 0/10 | The compulsory national curricula includes representation of one ground of discrimination: 5/10 | Two grounds: 7.5/10 | Three grounds: 10/10

Malta’s national curricula are inclusive of SOGIGESC issues, but implementation is often up to the respective school. Covering SOGIGESC issues is viewed as primarily the responsibility of Personal, Social and Career Education (PSCD), religion teachers and student support service professionals, such as guidance teachers and counselors. Some NGOs in Malta also perform this educational service through conducting trainings with schools. The SOGIGESC Unit has provided training to PSCD staff and PSCD Teacher Trainees. Since 2019, it has been working with the Directorates of Education to mainstream SOGIGESC issues throughout a range of thematic curriculum.

Civil society reports that references to LGBTQI issues as part of religious education can be hostile.

Malta has mandatory sex education guidelines in place, inclusive of SOGIGESC issues and available from the age of seven. During its third UPR review, Malta was recommended to introduce comprehensive sex education programs. The National Sexual Health Strategy was launched for public consultation in December 2024 and concluded in February 2025. This included measures on SRE (Sexuality and Relationship Education). SRE is mainly addressed in Personal, Social and Career Development (PSCD) lessons in secondary schools, but SRE topics are also covered in other subjects like Science, Biology and Religion. Civil society noted the strategy is an improvement on the previous strategy published in 2010, but has criticised the lack of timelines or clarity on how the strategy will be implemented.

Over the past 3 years the National Literacy Agency has distributed a number of books dealing with diversity and LGBTIQ issues to primary school classroom libraries in both the English and Maltese language.

The current LGBTQI Equality Strategy and Actions Plan 2023-2027 contains the objectives to:

Develop and pilot intra-curricular approaches to LGBTQI inclusion in schools
Develop educational resources for schools that can be accessed online as well as printed materials such as posters and other audio-visual resources for teachers promoting anti-bullying messages, being an ally and consent in relationships
Review the current sexuality and relationships education curriculum that is being implemented in schools and address gaps.

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Grounds of discrimination

Here is the country's score for each ground of discrimination on which we based our observations for 8 of the 10 indicators presented above.

Sexual orientation

Gender identity and expression

Sex characteristics (intersex)

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Country score evolution

2025

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2022

/100

2018

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To enable a meaningful comparison of country progress over time, we have retroactively aligned the scoring systems used in the 2018 and 2022 Editions of IGLYO’s LGBTQI Inclusive Education Index with the updated 2025 scoring criteria. While each edition of the research has built on the previous one, reflecting evolving standards and priorities in inclusive education, minor changes to indicators and scoring weights were introduced in 2022 and 2025 to improve clarity, consistency, and comprehensiveness.
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By recalculating the earlier scores according to the 2025 framework, we have tried to ensure comparability across all three editions and provide a more accurate picture of progress, stagnation, or regression in each country’s approach to LGBTQI-inclusive education. For this reason, you might find some scores in the PDF Report & Index 2018 and 2022 differing from those on the Education website for these two years.

Good practices

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2022

Europe Average

30.6

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European Union Average

41.6

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