Malta Census: More Than One In Five Residents On The Island Are Foreign
More than one in five residents in Malta are foreign, the new national census has found.
The new statistics released by the recently published and widely anticipated census have found that the number of foreigners in Malta has increased drastically.
Of the total population of 519,562 persons, 115,449 – or 22.25% – are non-Maltese.
Malta’s foreigners are predominantly males and younger in age compared to their Maltese counterparts.
This makes it a fivefold increase in the foreign population since 2011 when it stood at 20,289 or 4.9% of the total population.
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Almost a third of all foreigners are currently residing in St Paul’s Bay, Sliema or Msida, with St Paul’s Bay seeing a doubling in residents.
St Paul’s Bay has now been recorded as the largest locality in Malta, with the population in St Paul’s Bay exceeding 32,000 inhabitants.
The Census of Population and Housing 2021 was the 18th in a line of national censuses conducted since 1842.
The census is a national project held every 10 years and involves enumerating all residents and dwellings in Malta at a specific point in time, referred to as Census Night.
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