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Malta

579,704

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+10.86K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+48.6%from 390.09K
Life expectancy83.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.01births per woman · 2024
Urban population95.7%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanHigh income

A country at every age

How Malta is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1412.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6466.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+20.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate7.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.3deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+0.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+5.16Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Malta look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 535.72K in 2050—0.7% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024539.61K
  2. 2050535.72K
  3. 2100359.93K
Median age in 205053.0years
Births in 20503.37Kduring the year
Deaths in 20506.17Kduring the year
Life expectancy86.8years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960326.55K
  2. 1970302.65K
  3. 1980316.65K
  4. 1990354.17K
  5. 2000390.09K
  6. 2010414.51K
  7. 2020515.49K
  8. 2025579.7K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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