- ISO 3166
MT- Main language + region
mt-MT- Currency
- EUR · Euro
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK
Malta
Malta has 469.7K people, and 440.9K of them are online. Maltese is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. Maltese and English are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to mt-MT.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
440.9K
0%world median 81%100%
94% of 469.7K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$47,907
Higher than 84% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
97%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
4
Maltese 100% · English 88% · Italian 56%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
92%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (mt-MT).
Plural categories
5
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text ("1 item", "5 items"). More than English's two, so counted strings carry extra variants.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 ta’ April 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
€1,234.56
1,234.56 in EUR · Euro
The engineering behind the flags: Plural rules: why each category needs its own translation