Population — national citizens

In 2017, Malta's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2016, reaching 401,239.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 412,331,382.

Malta ranks 26th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.0% (from 397,244 in 2012).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.