According to the last demographic survey (2003), the estimated population of the Malta at the end of that year (including non-Maltese residents) was 399,867.

According to the 2008 rural poverty line with annual per capita net income below 1,196 yuan, the population in poverty in rural areas numbered 40.07 million at the end of the year.

Every year toward the end of May, virtually the entire population of Calidris canutus rufa [a kind of red knot] funnels into Delaware Bay to rest and eat.