Country or area · Southern Europe · Europe · UN WPP 2024

Malta population

Malta population now

549,511

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 535,682–567,279.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 532,956

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 549,005; 95% range, 31 Dec: 535,682–567,279
Median age: 42.5
Aged 65+: 20.9%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 100 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

MLT · 1950–2100 · in brief

Malta in numbers

In mid-2023 there were 532,956 people in Malta: the 173rd-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 1.8 times its 1950 population of 295 thousand.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2033 at 557 thousand, then falling to 360 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 101 thousand to 2.8 million.

In the medium projection, deaths outnumber births every year from 2026 on. The population still grows until 2033, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 24.6 in 1950 and 41.3 in 2023; the projection has 56.1 in 2100. 19.8% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 40.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2033 at 366 thousand.

Among countries it ranks 173rd in 2023, 175th in 2050 and 182nd in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Montenegro in 2049 and Macao in 2088. It is overtaken by the Maldives in 2037, Cabo Verde in 2039 and Mayotte in 2044.

Population, mid-2023: 532,956
Rank by population, 2023: 173 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.90% · +4,764 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 1,665
Land area, 2023: 320 km²
Births, 2023: 4,213
Deaths, 2023: 3,928
Net migration, 2023: +6,591
Children per woman, 2023: 1.10
Median age, 2023: 41.3 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 83.3 years
In a city, 2025: 68 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 294,679
Projected, mid-2050: 535,722
Projected, mid-2100: 359,932

MLT · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Malta, 1950–2100

Malta: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	291,123		8,673	3,775	4.23	63.5
1951	estimate	298,236		8,892	3,660	4.21	63.9
1952	estimate	302,674		8,999	3,637	4.17	64.1
1953	estimate	307,141		9,096	3,645	4.13	64.3
1954	estimate	311,546		9,180	3,439	4.08	65.1
1955	estimate	315,943		9,241	3,304	4.01	66.3
1956	estimate	320,335		9,474	3,284	4.03	66.8
1957	estimate	324,577		8,849	3,199	3.68	67.5
1958	estimate	328,811		8,778	3,176	3.58	67.8
1959	estimate	330,005		8,767	3,046	3.58	68.4
1960	estimate	330,701		8,844	3,053	3.63	68.4
1961	estimate	330,939		7,995	3,089	3.30	68.4
1962	estimate	330,758		7,741	2,914	3.22	69.2
1963	estimate	330,219		6,881	2,934	2.87	69.3
1964	estimate	329,392		6,535	2,980	2.74	69.3
1965	estimate	328,185		5,791	3,029	2.44	69.5
1966	estimate	326,611		5,475	3,033	2.28	69.7
1967	estimate	324,738		5,362	3,141	2.19	69.8
1968	estimate	322,888		5,202	3,202	2.08	69.9
1969	estimate	324,136		5,245	3,178	2.02	70.1
1970	estimate	325,370		5,533	3,131	2.07	70.4
1971	estimate	326,652		5,845	3,237	2.12	70.1
1972	estimate	327,933		5,769	3,106	2.03	70.7
1973	estimate	329,285		6,058	2,974	2.08	71.3
1974	estimate	330,820		6,186	2,868	2.08	72.0
1975	estimate	332,538		6,487	2,919	2.15	72.1
1976	estimate	334,363		6,456	2,960	2.13	72.2
1977	estimate	336,209		6,508	3,020	2.14	72.3
1978	estimate	338,112		6,284	3,080	2.06	72.3
1979	estimate	340,010		6,360	3,130	2.09	72.5
1980	estimate	341,932		6,045	3,268	1.99	72.3
1981	estimate	343,822		5,722	3,306	1.90	72.4
1982	estimate	345,682		6,203	3,226	2.07	72.8
1983	estimate	347,607		5,942	3,230	2.00	73.1
1984	estimate	349,575		5,734	3,229	1.96	73.3
1985	estimate	351,527		5,635	3,123	1.95	73.8
1986	estimate	353,605		5,512	3,033	1.93	74.5
1987	estimate	356,548		5,596	2,835	1.97	75.3
1988	estimate	359,613		5,802	2,735	2.06	75.9
1989	estimate	362,835		5,844	2,721	2.10	76.2
1990	estimate	366,208		5,605	2,774	2.04	76.2
1991	estimate	369,608		5,434	2,750	2.00	76.5
1992	estimate	373,055		5,523	2,783	2.06	76.7
1993	estimate	376,534		5,181	2,819	1.96	76.8
1994	estimate	379,900		4,825	2,860	1.84	77.0
1995	estimate	383,008		4,656	2,876	1.79	77.0
1996	estimate	386,091		5,112	3,185	1.97	76.3
1997	estimate	389,157		5,044	3,007	1.94	77.3
1998	estimate	392,201		4,825	2,926	1.83	77.8
1999	estimate	395,348		4,595	2,992	1.73	77.8
2000	estimate	398,429		4,490	3,145	1.67	77.9
2001	estimate	401,361		4,059	2,889	1.49	78.9
2002	estimate	404,208		4,003	3,115	1.46	78.5
2003	estimate	406,921		4,099	3,112	1.48	78.7
2004	estimate	409,532		3,954	3,074	1.40	79.2
2005	estimate	412,063		3,936	3,056	1.38	79.5
2006	estimate	414,576		3,911	3,152	1.36	79.6
2007	estimate	416,333		3,923	3,119	1.36	79.7
2008	estimate	418,060		4,133	3,191	1.42	79.7
2009	estimate	419,878		4,139	3,135	1.41	80.4
2010	estimate	421,711		4,047	2,912	1.38	81.4
2011	estimate	423,590		4,262	3,185	1.44	80.8
2012	estimate	425,667		4,213	3,232	1.42	81.1
2013	estimate	427,554		4,067	3,125	1.37	81.8
2014	estimate	429,351		4,113	3,043	1.38	82.3
2015	estimate	439,618		4,231	3,095	1.38	82.6
2016	estimate	450,343		4,361	3,134	1.37	82.7
2017	estimate	460,195		4,205	3,156	1.27	83.1
2018	estimate	475,610		4,286	3,362	1.23	82.9
2019	estimate	493,505		4,241	3,522	1.15	82.8
2020	estimate	514,526		4,393	3,925	1.13	82.3
2021	estimate	521,887		4,345	4,013	1.11	82.3
2022	estimate	526,866		4,285	4,112	1.10	82.3
2023	estimate	529,518		4,213	3,928	1.10	83.3
2024	estimate	536,394		4,212	4,109	1.11	83.5
2025	projection	542,820	538,802–547,736	4,231	4,223	1.11	83.6
2026	projection	547,990	539,467–558,666	4,222	4,337	1.12	83.8
2027	projection	550,032	535,682–567,279	4,159	4,451	1.13	83.9
2028	projection	551,918	531,766–576,790	4,088	4,565	1.14	84.1
2029	projection	553,491	527,597–587,032	4,002	4,677	1.15	84.2
2030	projection	554,720	521,877–597,113	3,905	4,791	1.15	84.3
2031	projection	555,743	515,146–608,816	3,812	4,900	1.16	84.5
2032	projection	556,497	510,364–620,585	3,722	5,015	1.17	84.6
2033	projection	557,056	503,942–631,393	3,632	5,124	1.17	84.7
2034	projection	557,159	496,784–641,091	3,546	5,228	1.17	84.9
2035	projection	556,783	490,407–652,712	3,472	5,327	1.18	85.0
2036	projection	556,233	479,557–663,383	3,414	5,426	1.19	85.1
2037	projection	555,530	474,329–680,502	3,372	5,521	1.19	85.2
2038	projection	554,665	468,540–693,947	3,337	5,609	1.20	85.4
2039	projection	553,545	460,660–708,830	3,317	5,691	1.20	85.5
2040	projection	552,330	452,271–721,474	3,307	5,763	1.21	85.6
2041	projection	551,140	443,831–741,783	3,310	5,835	1.22	85.7
2042	projection	549,780	436,495–760,187	3,312	5,893	1.22	85.9
2043	projection	548,457	430,082–774,668	3,325	5,949	1.22	86.0
2044	projection	546,955	423,565–792,909	3,340	5,998	1.23	86.1
2045	projection	545,442	415,559–810,270	3,356	6,040	1.23	86.2
2046	projection	543,826	408,112–831,787	3,373	6,074	1.24	86.3
2047	projection	542,175	400,348–853,410	3,380	6,105	1.24	86.5
2048	projection	540,238	389,834–878,972	3,384	6,133	1.25	86.6
2049	projection	538,440	381,495–913,612	3,378	6,154	1.25	86.7
2050	projection	536,717	373,718–932,660	3,374	6,174	1.26	86.8
2051	projection	534,726	365,365–948,400	3,360	6,195	1.26	86.9
2052	projection	532,552	355,016–975,661	3,338	6,218	1.27	87.0
2053	projection	530,420	0.4–1.0 million	3,310	6,249	1.27	87.2
2054	projection	528,344	0.3–1.0 million	3,282	6,276	1.27	87.3
2055	projection	526,345	0.3–1.0 million	3,253	6,306	1.28	87.4
2056	projection	524,096	0.3–1.1 million	3,217	6,339	1.28	87.5
2057	projection	521,818	0.3–1.1 million	3,181	6,371	1.28	87.6
2058	projection	519,611	0.3–1.1 million	3,149	6,410	1.29	87.7
2059	projection	517,267	0.3–1.2 million	3,110	6,454	1.29	87.8
2060	projection	514,689	0.3–1.2 million	3,073	6,501	1.30	88.0
2061	projection	512,039	0.3–1.2 million	3,036	6,562	1.30	88.1
2062	projection	509,330	0.3–1.3 million	3,003	6,622	1.31	88.2
2063	projection	506,392	0.3–1.3 million	2,965	6,688	1.31	88.3
2064	projection	503,463	0.3–1.3 million	2,929	6,762	1.31	88.4
2065	projection	500,348	0.3–1.4 million	2,889	6,841	1.32	88.5
2066	projection	497,067	0.3–1.4 million	2,857	6,925	1.32	88.6
2067	projection	493,653	0.3–1.4 million	2,821	7,004	1.33	88.7
2068	projection	490,086	0.3–1.4 million	2,783	7,097	1.33	88.8
2069	projection	486,325	0.2–1.5 million	2,750	7,184	1.33	89.0
2070	projection	482,492	0.2–1.5 million	2,715	7,266	1.34	89.1
2071	projection	478,645	0.2–1.5 million	2,688	7,347	1.34	89.2
2072	projection	474,653	0.2–1.6 million	2,663	7,419	1.34	89.3
2073	projection	470,576	0.2–1.6 million	2,642	7,490	1.34	89.4
2074	projection	466,436	0.2–1.7 million	2,625	7,555	1.35	89.5
2075	projection	462,242	0.2–1.7 million	2,613	7,611	1.35	89.6
2076	projection	457,949	0.2–1.8 million	2,606	7,658	1.35	89.7
2077	projection	453,343	0.2–1.9 million	2,596	7,688	1.35	89.8
2078	projection	448,773	0.2–1.9 million	2,589	7,710	1.36	89.9
2079	projection	444,224	0.2–2.0 million	2,589	7,718	1.36	90.0
2080	projection	439,631	0.2–2.0 million	2,588	7,704	1.37	90.2
2081	projection	435,016	0.2–2.0 million	2,585	7,689	1.37	90.3
2082	projection	430,310	0.2–2.1 million	2,582	7,654	1.37	90.4
2083	projection	425,790	0.2–2.1 million	2,574	7,604	1.38	90.5
2084	projection	421,168	0.2–2.1 million	2,565	7,533	1.38	90.6
2085	projection	416,673	0.2–2.2 million	2,555	7,451	1.38	90.7
2086	projection	412,296	0.2–2.2 million	2,542	7,355	1.38	90.8
2087	projection	407,879	0.1–2.3 million	2,526	7,245	1.38	90.9
2088	projection	403,632	0.1–2.3 million	2,510	7,127	1.39	91.0
2089	projection	399,647	0.1–2.3 million	2,497	6,984	1.39	91.1
2090	projection	395,655	0.1–2.4 million	2,479	6,839	1.39	91.2
2091	projection	391,708	0.1–2.4 million	2,456	6,687	1.39	91.3
2092	projection	387,873	0.1–2.5 million	2,430	6,528	1.39	91.4
2093	projection	384,240	0.1–2.5 million	2,406	6,365	1.39	91.5
2094	projection	380,679	0.1–2.5 million	2,382	6,209	1.40	91.7
2095	projection	377,139	0.1–2.5 million	2,358	6,056	1.40	91.8
2096	projection	373,687	0.1–2.6 million	2,332	5,907	1.40	91.9
2097	projection	370,501	0.1–2.7 million	2,309	5,773	1.40	92.0
2098	projection	367,386	0.1–2.7 million	2,284	5,644	1.40	92.1
2099	projection	364,376	0.1–2.7 million	2,263	5,527	1.41	92.2
2100	projection	361,380	0.1–2.8 million	2,237	5,429	1.41	92.3

Show the numbers: Malta, mid-2026, by single year of age

Malta: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	2,193	2,050
1	2,214	2,066
2	2,235	2,081
3	2,270	2,109
4	2,316	2,157
5	2,379	2,214
6	2,398	2,222
7	2,470	2,294
8	2,540	2,391
9	2,592	2,402
10	2,619	2,411
11	2,578	2,346
12	2,543	2,271
13	2,520	2,300
14	2,536	2,379
15	2,452	2,354
16	2,420	2,325
17	2,512	2,351
18	2,535	2,298
19	2,548	2,289
20	2,604	2,372
21	2,656	2,453
22	2,724	2,524
23	2,812	2,507
24	2,907	2,506
25	3,093	2,730
26	3,296	2,905
27	3,560	3,012
28	3,960	3,196
29	4,373	3,418
30	4,720	3,682
31	4,936	3,904
32	5,178	4,192
33	5,448	4,476
34	5,604	4,628
35	5,640	4,716
36	5,642	4,807
37	5,637	4,780
38	5,492	4,563
39	5,309	4,347
40	5,226	4,241
41	5,138	4,192
42	5,065	4,148
43	5,017	4,172
44	4,802	4,085
45	4,654	3,901
46	4,602	3,859
47	4,445	3,803
48	4,348	3,686
49	4,228	3,646
50	4,150	3,590
51	4,024	3,434
52	3,738	3,307
53	3,604	3,214
54	3,532	3,098
55	3,367	2,981
56	3,203	2,832
57	3,095	2,820
58	3,000	2,834
59	2,922	2,737
60	2,954	2,764
61	3,040	2,857
62	3,079	2,900
63	3,133	3,002
64	3,207	3,065
65	3,214	3,114
66	3,141	3,173
67	3,058	3,147
68	3,060	3,109
69	3,044	3,064
70	2,957	2,973
71	2,828	2,886
72	2,652	2,790
73	2,540	2,723
74	2,512	2,721
75	2,546	2,771
76	2,552	2,778
77	2,483	2,756
78	2,389	2,768
79	2,224	2,652
80	2,008	2,438
81	1,890	2,286
82	1,525	1,916
83	997	1,346
84	788	1,110
85	755	1,124
86	729	1,128
87	667	1,090
88	584	1,003
89	502	888
90	410	777
91	314	652
92	242	553
93	186	475
94	136	376
95	97	286
96	64	205
97	41	140
98	28	98
99	18	70
100+	35	173

MLT · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Malta, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

MLT · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Malta

On the UN's projection, Malta will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2033: 366,254 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 357,337.

100 aged 15–64

20 children

30 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 35 years: 1978–1982 and 1995–2024.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

MLT · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Malta, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Malta gains 5,213 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 776 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 100 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 20,302 (2019); its biggest loss, 5,540 (1960).

In 2024, 199,466 people living in Malta had been born in another country, 37 of every 100 people there, against 4 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

MLT · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Malta

Of every 100 babies born in Malta in 2023, 3 had a mother under 20, 69 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 28 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 4 under 20 and 19 aged 35 or older.

1950
4 · 77 · 19

2023
3 · 69 · 28

2050 · projected
1 · 56 · 43

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023: 4,213
Average age when women have a baby: 30.9 years; 29.7 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 10; 26 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Malta by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	1	3	10	1	0	0
15–19	359	264	248	110	55	37
20–24	2,459	1,928	1,037	343	275	193
25–29	2,477	2,534	1,668	912	473	315
30–34	1,731	1,122	1,006	1,677	1,131	719
35–39	1,127	481	412	967	1,106	737
40–44	472	145	104	191	300	211
45–49	47	10	5	12	34	25
50–54	0	0	0	0	0	0
All babies	8,673	6,487	4,490	4,213	3,374	2,237

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

MLT · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Malta

In Malta, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 70.7 (95% range 70.0–71.5), out of 81.8 in all. That leaves 11.1 years in less than full health, more than the world's 9.5: a longer life usually brings a longer stretch of illness near its end.

Women

71.0 in full health, 12.7 not: 83.7 years

Men

70.4 in full health, 9.6 not: 80.0 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 71.0 healthy years of 83.7. Men: 70.4 of 80.0. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 71.2.

MLT · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Malta

At the end of 2025, Malta was hosting 9,696 people who had crossed a border into it, about 18 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad9,696
Malta nationals abroad27

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 200 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Malta living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 388 people asked for asylum in Malta for the first time; 5 people from Malta asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

MLT · of every 100 people

How people live in Malta

Of every 100 people in Malta in 2025, 68 lived in a city, 27 in a town or suburb and 5 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 6.1 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

MLT · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Malta went in school

Of every 100 adults in Malta in 2020, 1 never went to school and 44 finished upper secondary or went further.

1 never went to school 15 finished primary 40 finished lower secondary 17 finished upper secondary 27 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2045.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

MLT · cities · 2025

Cities in Malta

Malta had 1 city in 2025, home to 373,474 people. The largest, Valletta, holds 68 of every 100 people in Malta.

Valletta373,474

How to read this: the one city here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Malta are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.