Maltese people

"Maltin" redirects here. For the American film critic, see Leonard Maltin.
Maltese people
Maltin
Flag of Malta
Map of Maltese Diaspora
Total population
c.400,000–700,000[a]
Regions with significant populations
 Malta 404,113[1]
 Australia198,996[2]
 Canada41,920[3]
 United Kingdom40,230[4]
(Maltese-born)
 United States40,820 (2016)[5]
 Italy31,000[6]
 South Africa1,000[7]
 Germany1,000[8]
 Turkey~1,000–2,000[9][10]
 Tunisia< 200 (Many resettled in Malta after the 1950s)[11]
Languages
Maltese
English • Italian
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism[12][13]
a The total figure is merely an estimation from all the referenced populations.

The Maltese (Maltese: Maltin) people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language and share a common culture and Maltese history. Malta, an island country in the Mediterranean Sea, is an archipelago that also includes an island of the same name together with the islands of Gozo (Maltese: Għawdex) and Comino (Maltese: Kemmuna); people of Gozo, Gozitans (Maltese: Għawdxin) are considered a subgroup of the Maltese.

  1. ^ Census of population and housing 2021 Archived 2022-08-09 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 30. National Statistics Office of Malta
  2. ^ "Australia General Community Profile". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Ethnic origin population". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Population data". OECD. Archived from the original (xls) on 2009-06-17.
  5. ^ "2016 American Community Survey 1-year estimates". Retrieved 2018-05-18.
  6. ^ "Italy | Joshua Project".
  7. ^ "Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country of Origin and Destination". 10 February 2014.
  8. ^ "Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country of Origin and Destination". 10 February 2014.
  9. ^ "Maltese living in Turkey celebrate traditional feast". 20 September 2015.
  10. ^ "The Great Exodus (Maltese in Turkey from Lancs to the Levant)". 10 March 2015.
  11. ^ "Maltese in Tunisia". 14 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Malta". State.gov. 1 January 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  13. ^ Sansone, Kurt (16 February 2023). "Census 2021: Maltese citizens overwhelmingly identify as Roman Catholics". Malta Today. Archived from the original on 17 January 2024.