Population — national citizens

In 2016, Malta's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2015, reaching 400,355.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 412,714,600.

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 1.1% (from 395,850 in 2011).

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