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demography

Malta has a population registered officially (in 2010) of 414.372 inhabitants, 30 of which live in The Valeta; 9.800, in Birkirkara 20.350 (38.000 in the conurbation), in Qormi 20.300, and in Sliema 13.500. The capital has a conurbation that it overcomes 100.000 inhabitants. Malta possesses the highest density of population, approximately 1.282 hab./km ², among the countries of the European Union.

Economy

The major resources of Malta are the limestone, his strategic geographical location and his limited ones dimensions. Malta only produces 20 % of the food that it consumes, has limited supply of sweet water and does not possess sources of own energy. The economy depends on the exterior trade (serving as port of transfer for the container ships), on the manufactures (specially electronic and textile) and to a great extent on the tourism. The cinematographic production is a factor of growth of the Maltese economy, with several foreign movies of great budget filming in Malta every year. El País newspaper has increased the exports of many other types of services as the banking and the finance.