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Characteristics. Malta is the most densely populated country in the EU and one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with about 1,265 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,280 inhabitants/sq mi). This compares with about 32 per square kilometre (85 per square mile) for the United States. A census (held every 10 years) was held in ...
Malta's old-age-dependency-ratio rose from 17.2 percent in 1995 to 19.8 percent in 2005, reasonably lower than the EU's 24.9 percent average; 31.5 percent of the Maltese population is aged under 25 (compared to the EU's 29.1 percent); but the 50–64 age group constitutes 20.3 percent of the population, significantly higher than the EU's 17.9 ...
The Maltese (Maltese: Maltin) people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language and share a common culture and Maltese history.Malta, an island country in the Mediterranean Sea, is an archipelago that also includes an island of the same name together with the islands of Gozo (Maltese: Għawdex) and Comino (Maltese: Kemmuna); people of Gozo, Gozitans (Maltese ...
Approx. 500,000 (May 2021) Pop. density. 1,664/km 2 (4310/sq mi) Ethnic groups. Maltese people. Malta is an island in Southern Europe. It is the largest and most populous of the three major islands that constitute the Maltese Archipelago.The island is situated in the Mediterranean Sea directly south of Italy and north of Libya.
The 2021 census found that the Muslim population in Malta grew from 6,000 in 2010 to 17,454 in 2021, mainly foreigners, totalling 3.9% of the population. [34] Of these a small amount, 1,746, are Maltese citizens. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is also present. Zen Buddhism and the Baháʼí Faith also have about 40 members. [citation needed]
After the Norman conquest, the population of the Maltese islands kept growing mainly through immigration from the north (Sicily and Italy), with the exile to Malta of the entire male population of the town of Celano (Italy) in 1223 (though most of them returned home few years later), the stationing of a Norman and Sicilian garrison on Malta in ...
Over 10,000 Maltese settled in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States between 1918 and 1920, followed by another 90,000 – or 30 percent of the population of Malta – between 1948 and 1967. [37] By 1996, the net emigration from Malta during the 20th century exceeded 120,000, or 33.5% of the population of Malta. [38]
A. Arabs in Malta. Categories: Demographics of Europe by country. Demographics by country. Society of Malta. Demographics of the European Union. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.