Malta Census: A Quarter Of Island Population Now Made Up Of Foreign Nationals
One in every five residents in Malta foreign – this means that a fifth of island’s population is made up of foreign nationals, the new census has revealed.
Earlier today, volume one of the 2021 Census of Housing and Population final report was released by the National Statistics Office.
It has found that more than one in five residents were foreign, with 115,449 non-Maltese persons residing in Malta on Census Day.
That represents an increase of more than five times in the share of foreigners since 2011.
Of the total population of 519,562 persons, 115,449 – or 22.22% – are non-Maltese.
Meanwhile, a total of 14,822 persons immigrated to Malta in the year prior to the Census – more than three times the figure reported in 2011.
More than half of these immigrants were non-EU citizens (including British), including 4,765 citizens from countries outside of Europe.
Citizenship for non-Maltese can be found in Tables 2.4 and 2.5. the country of birth for the population can be found in Tables 2.8 and 2.9.
Just less than 90 percent of residents were Caucasian, and a further 5.2 percent were Asian. A total of 6,101 persons (1.2 percent) had more than one racial origin.
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