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Population in Malta compared to Romania: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Malta was 574,346 in 2024 vs 19,069,340 people in Romania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Malta's population is 583,596 people compared to 18,962,595 in Romania.

Population statistics:

  • Romania's population is 32.5 times bigger than Malta's.
  • Malta is ranked the 167th most populous country in the world, while Romania is the 69th.
  • The countries together account for 0.24% of the world: 0.007% for Malta vs 0.23% for Romania.
  • For the last 10 years, Malta has had an average growth rate of +2.78% per year vs -0.42% in Romania.
  • Since 2005, the population of Malta has increased from 404K people to 584K (44.5% growth), while Romania has declined from 21.3M to 19M (11.1% decline).
  • Malta is projected to reach its peak in 2033 at 593K people, while Romania's population already peaked in 1990 at 23.2M people and is projected to decrease to 10.8M people by 2100.

Malta vs Romania: live population counter

Malta Romania
Current population
583596
18962595
Population rank 167/197 69/197
Percent of world population 0.007% 0.23%
One net population change
24.3 minutes
53.3 minutes
One birth every
1.96 hours
3.45 minutes
One death every
2.17 hours
2.17 minutes
One migration net change every
1.39 hours
18.5 minutes
Annual migration change +6,323 -28,466
Daily growth/decline +59 +27
Annual growth/decline +21,599 +9,861
Annual growth/decline rate +3.91% +0.05%
Population growth rate rank 7/197 162/197

Malta and Romania: population history and growth rate by year chart

Malta
Population

Growth rate
Romania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Malta Romania Malta Romania
1960 326,550 18,406,905 - -
1961 325,250 18,555,250 -0.4% 0.81%
1962 323,900 18,676,550 -0.42% 0.65%
1963 322,550 18,797,850 -0.42% 0.65%
1964 321,250 18,919,126 -0.4% 0.65%
1965 318,800 19,031,576 -0.76% 0.59%
1966 315,200 19,215,450 -1.13% 0.97%
1967 311,550 19,534,242 -1.16% 1.66%
1968 307,900 19,799,831 -1.17% 1.36%
1969 304,300 20,009,141 -1.17% 1.06%
1970 302,650 20,250,398 -0.54% 1.21%
1971 302,700 20,461,567 0.02% 1.04%
1972 302,450 20,657,957 -0.08% 0.96%
1973 302,200 20,835,681 -0.08% 0.86%
1974 301,996 21,029,429 -0.07% 0.93%
1975 304,222 21,293,583 0.74% 1.26%
1976 305,774 21,551,634 0.51% 1.21%
1977 306,970 21,756,096 0.39% 0.95%
1978 310,182 21,951,464 1.05% 0.9%
1979 313,342 22,090,488 1.02% 0.63%
1980 316,645 22,207,282 1.05% 0.53%
1981 318,982 22,353,070 0.74% 0.66%
1982 325,898 22,475,741 2.17% 0.55%
1983 330,524 22,560,478 1.42% 0.38%
1984 330,593 22,640,547 0.02% 0.35%
1985 336,452 22,732,999 1.77% 0.41%
1986 342,121 22,836,841 1.68% 0.46%
1987 344,485 22,949,430 0.69% 0.49%
1988 347,325 23,057,662 0.82% 0.47%
1989 350,722 23,161,458 0.98% 0.45%
1990 354,170 23,201,835 0.98% 0.17%
1991 363,845 23,001,155 2.73% -0.86%
1992 367,618 22,794,284 1.04% -0.9%
1993 371,308 22,763,280 1% -0.14%
1994 374,797 22,730,211 0.94% -0.15%
1995 377,419 22,684,270 0.7% -0.2%
1996 379,905 22,619,004 0.66% -0.29%
1997 382,791 22,553,978 0.76% -0.29%
1998 385,287 22,507,344 0.65% -0.21%
1999 387,578 22,472,040 0.59% -0.16%
2000 390,087 22,442,971 0.65% -0.13%
2001 393,028 22,131,970 0.75% -1.39%
2002 395,969 21,730,496 0.75% -1.81%
2003 398,582 21,574,326 0.66% -0.72%
2004 401,268 21,451,748 0.67% -0.57%
2005 403,834 21,319,685 0.64% -0.62%
2006 405,308 21,193,760 0.37% -0.59%
2007 406,724 20,882,982 0.35% -1.47%
2008 409,379 20,537,875 0.65% -1.65%
2009 412,477 20,367,487 0.76% -0.83%
2010 414,508 20,246,871 0.49% -0.59%
2011 416,268 20,147,528 0.42% -0.49%
2012 420,028 20,058,035 0.9% -0.44%
2013 424,810 19,983,693 1.14% -0.37%
2014 433,481 19,908,979 2.04% -0.37%
2015 444,220 19,815,616 2.48% -0.47%
2016 454,505 19,702,267 2.32% -0.57%
2017 467,106 19,588,715 2.77% -0.58%
2018 483,903 19,473,970 3.6% -0.59%
2019 503,912 19,371,648 4.13% -0.53%
2020 515,490 19,265,250 2.3% -0.55%
2021 518,150 19,122,059 0.52% -0.74%
2022 531,113 19,048,502 2.5% -0.38%
2023 552,747 19,059,479 4.07% 0.06%
2024 574,346 19,069,340 3.91% 0.05%
2025 580,514 18,962,595 1.07% -0.56%
2026 584,351 18,854,232 0.66% -0.57%
2027 586,444 18,744,883 0.36% -0.58%
2028 588,290 18,634,894 0.31% -0.59%
2029 589,776 18,523,736 0.25% -0.6%
2030 590,973 18,411,878 0.2% -0.6%
2031 591,921 18,299,820 0.16% -0.61%
2032 592,622 18,187,406 0.12% -0.61%
2033 592,974 18,074,282 0.06% -0.62%
2034 592,827 17,960,330 -0.02% -0.63%
2035 592,332 17,845,182 -0.08% -0.64%
2036 591,668 17,728,480 -0.11% -0.65%
2037 590,830 17,611,384 -0.14% -0.66%
2038 589,771 17,493,684 -0.18% -0.67%
2039 588,528 17,375,991 -0.21% -0.67%
2040 587,256 17,258,810 -0.22% -0.67%
2041 585,895 17,140,535 -0.23% -0.69%
2042 584,467 17,022,168 -0.24% -0.69%
2043 582,966 16,904,427 -0.26% -0.69%
2044 581,355 16,786,029 -0.28% -0.7%
2045 579,693 16,667,734 -0.29% -0.7%
2046 577,954 16,550,066 -0.3% -0.71%
2047 576,050 16,431,566 -0.33% -0.72%
2048 574,050 16,312,099 -0.35% -0.73%
2049 572,187 16,192,424 -0.32% -0.73%
2050 570,210 16,072,989 -0.35% -0.74%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Malta increased by 40,386 people (a 10% growth), while Romania lost 1,504,069 people (a 7.05% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Malta gained 139,376 (a 31.4% growth), while Romania's population decreased by -853,021 (a 4.3% decline).

Malta was ranked 168th most populous country in 2005 and is 167th in 2025. Romania was ranked 50th in 2005 and ranked 69th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Malta's population will shrink by 2.29% to 570,210 people and will still be ranked 167th. The population of Romania will decrease by 15.2% to 16,072,989 people and rank change from 69th to 81st.

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