World population/Malta
Europe
Population of Malta
549,013
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#173
world rank
0.01%
of world population
+0.36%
yearly change
+1,966
people this year
4,222
births a year
4,339
deaths a year
How the figure for Malta is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Malta at 549,013 on 1 July 2026, and projects 550,979 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Malta at number 173 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.01 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 4,222 births and 4,339 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
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