Drumherum » Demographics of Malta

The total population of Malta is 432,089 people. The people of Malta speak the English and Maltese languages. The linguistic diversity of Malta is vaguely diverse according to a fractionation scale, which for Malta is 0.0907. The average age is around 40.9 years. Life expectancy in Malta is 81. Female fertility rate in Malta is 1.4. About 29.0% of the Maltese population is obese. Ethnic diversity is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale, which for Malta is 0.0414. Details of the language, religion, age, gender distribution and advancement of the people of Malta can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.

Population
In Malta, the population density is 1321 people per square kilometer (3437 per square mile). Based on these statistics, this country is considered to be very densely populated. The total population of Malta is 432,089 people. Malta has approximately 41,442 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Malta make up 0.1 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Immigrants in Malta make up 8 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. The ethnic diversity of Malta is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale based on ethnicity. Ethnic Fractionation (EF) deals with the number, size, socioeconomic distribution, and geographic location of diverse cultural groups, usually within a state or some other demarcated area. Specific cultural characteristics can refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and traditions, history, or other distinctive criteria, alone or in combination. These characteristics are often used for social exclusion and power monopolization. The index of ethnic fractionation in Malta is 0.0414. This means that the people living in Malta are somewhat fractional. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group proportions, which reflects the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Read below Maltese statistics on average age and gender distribution at different ages.

Age
The average age is around 40.9 years. The average age for men is 39.7 and the average age for women is 42.1.

Gender
The sex ratio, or number of males per female (estimated at birth), is 1.06. It can be further broken down into the following categories: sex ratio below 15 - 1.06; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 1.03; sex ratio over 64 - 0.76; Overall sex ratio - 0.99. The overall sex ratio differs from the sex ratio estimated at birth. This is because some newborns are included in the sex ratio estimated at birth, but die within the first few weeks of life and are not included in the overall sex ratio.

Religion
The majority religion in Malta is Christianity, whose adherents make up 97% of all religious believers in the country. Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament. Christianity is the largest religion in the world with over 2.4 billion followers known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind, whose coming as Christ or Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament. Besides Christianity, there are several other religions in the country. Other religions in Malta are Islam, folk religions. The religious diversity of Malta is vaguely diverse according to a fractionation scale based on the number of religions in Malta. The religious fractionalization index in Malta is 0.1223. This score means that within the country there is a major belief with a few other subordinate beliefs.