# Malta is the exception: the EU home-leaving gender gap in 2025

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The Eurostat indicator estimates the age at which 50% of each sex no longer live with parents, from cross-sectional EU-LFS co-residence status (ages 15–34). It is not an arithmetic mean of observed moving-out dates. Decode JSON-stat by explicit category indices; select 27 EU members and the official EU 27_2020 aggregate; gap=men−women, using Decimal. All 56 selectedF/M observations are present and unflagged. Order countries by descending gap, EU aggregate separately; do not average country estimates. Women earlier 26/27; Malta women 27.8, men 27.3; Romania women 25.3, men 29.4, gap 4.1. No causal/significance claim.

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Source release: 2026-09-15. Frozen source snapshot: 22 October 2026. These are source dates, not a Meplar publication date.

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https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/yth_demo_030?lang=en&time=2025
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/yth_demo_030/default/table?lang=en
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20260915-1