An increase of 102,130 and still counting – Eddie Aquilina
The increase in population that Malta experienced between the censuses of 2011 and 2021, according to figures published on August 1, is of 102,130. With an impressive drop in fertility, that increase is almost all a result of the never-promised and never-discussed precise Labour policy of huge immigration, which is, in fact, a very definite policy of cheap labour. The census figures show that we now have 115,449 foreigners living on our islands, an increase of no less than 95,160 over just 20,289 who were living here at the end of 2011. To put this 102,130 population increase in context, the previous similar increase of slightly over 100,000 had taken no less than 63 years to happen, from 1948 to 2011, a period coinciding with the post-war baby boom and the mini-baby boom of the 1970s and 1980s. The average yearly population increase published by the National Statistics Office was a naive division by 10, for a linear 10,213 a year. But the NSO knows full well that the population increase in the last 10 years was far from linear. The NSO publishes a yearly estimate of the population on World Population Day, every July 11, and from those official figures we know that there was a...