Birth rate falls, but immigration fuels population rise
The number of births in Malta fell by 5 per cent, while births in Gozo advanced by 19 per cent.
Malta's birth rate is falling, but the population is growing, because of immigration, figures issued today by the NSO show.
In a statement to mark World Population Day, the NSO said that Malta's population at the end of 2010 stood at 417,608, of which just over half were female.
1,730 persons aged over 90
Persons under 18 comprised 19 per cent of the total, while a further 16 per cent were aged 65 and over, of whom 1,730 persons (1,220 females and 510 males) were 90 and over.
The NSO explained that its total population estimates were calculated using the 2009 population as a base, and taking into consideration births, deaths, adoptions of foreigners, immigration and emigration.
The population increased by 0.8 per cent over 2009, mainly due to a net migration (immigration less emigration) total of 2,200.
A time series analysis of births showed that, in spite of annual increases over the previous two years, the number of births dropped by 3 per cent in 2010. This was largely due to a decrease in the number of births in Malta, by 5 per cent, while births in Gozo advanced by 19 per cent.
Deaths also went down by 7 per cent, from 3,221 in 2009 to 3,010 in 2010.
The largest drop was for persons aged 25-34, where the total number of
deaths fell by 36 per cent over 2009. Persons aged 75 and over made up 61 per cent of the total, while females made up just over half.
Increase in number of marriages
2010 saw an increase in the number of marriages, the highest number since 2000. This increase brought the crude marriage rate for 2010 to 6.2. The most popular age for men to get married was between 25 and 29, with 41 per cent of grooms falling in this age bracket
Brides were slightly younger on average, with 43 per cent aged 20-24.
Interestingly,51 grooms were aged 60 and over last year, while just six brides fell in this age bracket.
A total of 566 separations were registered at the Public Registry in 2010, of which 90 per cent involved marriages where both spouses were Maltese. Furthermore 47 divorces obtained abroad were recognised by the Maltese authorities. Nearly two-thirds were cases where the previous marriage lasted 10 years and over, while just under one-tenth involved marriages which had taken place less than 5 years earlier.
124 annulments - 29 religious and 95 civil - were registered in the year under review in the year under review, with the largest proportion regarding
previous marriages that had lasted 10-19 years.
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Patrick Gafa
Jul 11th 2011, 17:43
This is a classic "Catch 22" case for the workers' society - the more you work, the more tax you would have to pay, because the common worker declares every penny without choice!
Who wouldn't love to have 2 or 3 kids, but can barely afford 1 nowadays. The immigrants are coming day after day, blessed and given what they need because we have to respect human rights and the beloved EU regulations, so they populate and repopulate.
And you Maltese man will eventually be phased out sooner or later by the children of those who are plastering your walls today! We are just shooting our own foot !!!
Ms Louise Vella
Jul 11th 2011, 16:09
At this rate it's only a matter of time before the illegal immigrants outnumber the Maltese population.
MALCOLM SEYCHELL
Jul 11th 2011, 15:07
Please note Dr Gonzi. We had 737 seperations, annulments and divorce and 2000 marriage. That means 37% of marriages are breaking up...... So please start living reality and addressing the problems rather then keep denying the truth.
Mr Carmel Pule'
Jul 11th 2011, 15:05
These are the consequences of the MISINTERPRETATION of equal rights for women. Please think very deeply before you fire at me to shoot me down!
Here is something to think about. The most efficient contraception is EDUCATION, Two salaries in one home encourage higher cost of living, which ties couples to work harder, to copulate and conjugate without fertilisation, passing the reproductive age without replacing themselves, so society ages with not enough children to pay for their pensions. The salvation would be in the hands of illegal immigrants.
Not only Education is the best contraceptive, but education is the most stupid thing ever invented by humans to repress natural instincts that go against nature with the consequences of the eradication of the specis concerned in this case the European white specis. It is interesting to note that the most educated people where religious people who never married and Never had children and segregated man and woman in groups who lived under one roof in a community. ( even a man and a woman under one roof are living like brothers and sisters considering their reproductive rate!) It is clear to me that this formula is now being used by " Modern civil philosophy with the result that the church and society is aging fast without vocations and as the modern society, due to many reasons, is following the same footsteps, not having children, and man and woman with equal rights are being segragated with society allowing men to live together and women to marry each other. It may sound ridiculous but modern society is following the examples of many religious communities who segregated man and women, have no children and so inevitable destruction and a complete wipe out will follow.
Finally , the greatest asset the world have is not EDUCATION but CHILDREN who are the result of not curtailing the natural reproductive instinct through EDUCATION!!
Mr Erin Ciantar
Jul 11th 2011, 20:46
I'm deducing, based on your comment and conclusions, that you have loads of kids.
Ms B Cassar
Jul 12th 2011, 07:25
What are you proposing? To go back to the dark ages where a woman had to be fed by a man???? Just look at it as it is - to many men it goes hardly down their throats that they don't have anymore 1000% control over a woman and you can't accept that we are not just equal to you but capable to do much more than you. In fact we do go to work as you but we also manage to study like you and keep a home and a family (unlike you). These things are hard to accept for many men as they are so useless without control.
Who keeps men from staying at home to educate their children while its the wife that goes to work??? I can assure you that I have enough boyfirends being jealous and who can't stand it that I have a highest salary than them. And if you don't believe do some research, this has been even one of the reasons of marriage breakdowns.
The real reason for the population numbers above are just illegal immigrants that are filling our shores packed inside and outside with children. We have one and they produce tens like mass production and the government is doing just nothing to protect US THE MALTESE who go to work and pay taxes to finance whatever comes to mind to these illegal immigrants. Come to Marsa, its unbereable going to work, you seem like you are going through Etiopia and not Malta. The streets are flooded in the morning with people stopping cars to get some work. I guess they don't pay NI and FSS from the amount gained. Now go on find an excuse and call me a racist, because when some people don't have answers they turn to the usual crap.
Mr Carmel Pule'
Jul 14th 2011, 00:00
I am an impartial observer and I only relate the consequences of our style of living. We will disappear from the surface of the earth as in education we took the wrong direction. Irrispective what you say, our development and civiization is based on increasing the number of unecessary necessities. THose who have children will rule eventually, the others will think that they had a better life when all they have is a drug which make them seek to own a lot of unecessary necessities and prefer to increase their unfertilised intimacy! Just look at Developed countries, they are panicing in their surroundings and China and India and African iinhabitants will slowly take over. What is the use of having men and women if they do not have children. We will all become working ants and bees and we are hapy to go to work to buy a lot of unecesssary necessities to support our drugged mental state of mind, all through Education. Malta will be voting soon not for divorce , but whether our religion will change to Islam or something else. And they win those who will have the most children and not those who have education!
Mr carlos ellul
Jul 11th 2011, 14:36
Malta need skilled labor and foreign skilled labor would prefer to go to North Europe and the US were they can be paid adequately then Malta.
Maybe its time for Malta to introduce some real family friendly measures which, at the moment are non existent. Can you blame a young couple who got a big loan to pay and can barely make ends meet in terms of time and salaries not to have children? I won't.
Mr Martin Cassar
Jul 11th 2011, 14:11
Will Europe runs out of Europeans?
The crux is this many European countries will get older before they get richer or financially stable.
In my humble opinion the only solution/s for this irreversible population deficit in Malta along with many other developed countries is to legalize polygamy, banning abortion and import man-power from [YOUNG] places such as India, South America or Africa .
Failure to do so, Europe with end up more like a poor old people home. In a nutshell, without Immigrants European governments may lack resources to disburse pensions to Mr. Lowell and his ilk!
Mr William Pierce
Jul 11th 2011, 18:30
So Genocide is ok?.
This is what people, especially those who hold left wing political views are advocating.
Rather than open the gates to Aliens European Nations should encourage Europeans to have Children just like they did after the flower of European Youth was massacred in two fratricidal world wars.
Personally I do not think flooding Europe with unwanted Illegal Immigrants is the answer. There is trouble ahead, big big trouble.
Mr Joe Gatt
Jul 11th 2011, 13:41
The population increased by 0.8 per cent over 2009, mainly due to a net migration (immigration less emigration) total of 2,200.
There are many unrecorded cases, one case in point, aTurk being sought in connection with the killing of a Bulgarian woman.
A figure of 15,000 would be more accurate, someone was saying recently.
MALCOLM SEYCHELL
Jul 11th 2011, 13:04
Well whoever said this 10 years ago was labelled as racist and still is today by the so called liberals (sic).
So label me as a racist, but I say it again. Immigration without any control is a suicidle mission.
michell gold
Jul 11th 2011, 14:12
True. I prefere idealist rather then racist.
Mr Mario Cassar
Jul 11th 2011, 14:57
Or realist.
Mr Tony Camilleri
Jul 11th 2011, 17:15
I agree with you.
hey can call me whatever they want but I am against immigration especially illegal immigration in this tiny spec of an island.
While on the subject, when are the Party Whips in Parlament going to accept the petition with more than 30,000 signatures collected in a few days by CNI for the government to curb illegal immigration?
Those who signed the petition please note.
Both political parties are disregarding you.
Reciprocate at election time.
michell gold
Jul 11th 2011, 12:58
It's clear that we need to stop the immigration. With a small number of population i think we don't want Malta to be a multicultural country with lots of african people.
If we don't change this problem now, Malta will not be Malta in the future anymore.
Mr Mario Cassar
Jul 11th 2011, 14:56
Agree 100%
Mr Tony Camilleri
Jul 11th 2011, 17:11
Fully agree with you.
Mr R ferriggi
Jul 11th 2011, 12:33
do we realise that EVEN a very amateur look at the figures will indicate that the maltese population is on the road to extinction?? or at least as we know it??
if the under 18s will only JUST replace the over 65s !!! thats not exactly replacement!!! when the rest are mostly midlle aged!!
which also shows clearly ( without havign to be an expert,,,,) that the pension schemes etc as we know them are finished in the future.
this is the why governments need to think and act,,, not by just lame arguments and short term measures.
if it is clear that something is UNSUSTAINABLE,,,,,,,, something radically new has to be created.
Mr Paul Barrett
Jul 11th 2011, 16:01
Quote: which also shows clearly ( without havign to be an expert,,,,) that the pension schemes etc as we know them are finished in the future. Unquote.
Pensions are and always will be a "pyramid scheme" - legal when your money is taken by a Government but illegal when done by private con men.
Mr Tony Camilleri
Jul 11th 2011, 17:12
Mr R ferriggi the pensions are SUSTAINABLE and we don't need any immigration.
All that is needed is for the pension to pay only pensions and not be used for anything else.
Ms B Cassar
Jul 12th 2011, 07:34
The moment what we pay for pensions as NI stops being used for any other excuse other than pensions, than yes it will be sustainable. The moment some good measure will be introduced to stop raping social benefits than yes it will be sustainable. But since the government is so keen to spend our money on:
illegal immigrants
bieb il-belt
uncalled for projects
exorbitant salaries especially to foreigners that are not a CUC MALTI
so on and so forth, our country will never be making a profit. Tell me just one thing. In the 70s Mintoff granted an enormous amount of social benefits, yet in the KAXXA TA MALTA there were left millions of profits. Tell me how he did??????? The answer is because he used money wisely and never spread liri on useless projects or rapists of the nation like illegal immigrants.