Country comparison: Cyprus / Malta

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Cyprus and Malta. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Cyprus	Malta
Region:	Western Asia	Southern Europe
Area:	9,250 km²	320 km²
National language:	Greek, Turkish	Maltese, English
Government form:	Presidential democracy	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	1964 AD
Capital:	Nicosia	Valletta

Population

Details for Cyprus and Malta

	Cyprus	Malta
Population:	1,244,000	518,536
Inhabitants/km²:	134.5	1,620.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 37.9 years	Ø 42.3 years
Birth rate:	10.58 ‰	8.60 ‰
Death rate:	6.93 ‰	7.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	6.65 ‰	4.96 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Cyprus	Malta
Political stability:	65	88
Civil rights:	67	69
Health:	78	91
Climate:	75	75
Cost of Living:	53	41
Popularity:	48	43

Economy

Details for Cyprus and Malta

	Cyprus	Malta
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	7.0 %	2.8 %
Inflation rate:	8.40 %	1.50 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	70.20 %	68.01 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	22.40 %	44.00 %
Average income:	28,470 US$	30,760 US$
Corruption index:	48 (moderate)	49 (moderate)

	CYP: total	per 1000 inh.	MLT: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	28,408 M US$	22.83 M US$	17,364 M US$	33.49 M US$
Gross national product:	25,634 M US$	20.60 M US$	15,948 M US$	30.76 M US$
Exported goods:	24,551 M US$	19.73 M US$	25,533 M US$	49.24 M US$
Imported goods:	23,748 M US$	19.09 M US$	22,965 M US$	44.29 M US$
Gross debt:	24,610 M US$	19.78 M US$	9,481 M US$	18.28 M US$
Budget surplus:	600 M US$	0.48 M US$	-1,033 M US$	-1.99 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Cyprus and Malta

	CYP: total	per 1000 inh.	MLT: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,901 km	16.00 km	2,254 km	4.35 km
Harbours:	1,051	0.8447	2,137	4.1212
Passenger airports:	4	0.0032	1	0.0019

Energy balance

Details for Cyprus and Malta

	CYP: total	per 1000 inh.	MLT: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	16.48 bn kWh	13.24 m kWh	6.87 bn kWh	13.24 m kWh
Energy consumption:	4.73 bn kWh	3.80 m kWh	2.50 bn kWh	4.82 m kWh
Energy production:	4.92 bn kWh	3.95 m kWh	2.24 bn kWh	4.32 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	4.00 m kWh	7,714.03 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	420.00 m kWh	809,972.69 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.19 m t	5,778.87 t	1.66 m t	3,201.32 t

Telecommunication

Details for Cyprus and Malta

	Cyprus	Malta
International dialing:	+357	+356
Internet domain:	.cy	.mt

	CYP total	CYP per 1000 inh.	MLT total	MLT per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	304,581	245	259,439	500
Mobile cellulars:	1,320,794	1062	644,955	1244
Internet server:	252,013	203	14,754	28
Internet users:	1,129,221	908	453,562	875
Broadband Internet:	340,774	274	221,198	427

Healthcare system

Details for Cyprus and Malta

	Cyprus	Malta
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	3.40	4.49
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.95	3.83
Diabetes:	9.0 %	8.3 %
Tuberculosis:	0.04 ‰	0.12 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	44.0 %	99.0 %
Smokers:	35.1 %	24.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Cyprus and Malta

	Cyprus	Malta
Daytime temperatures:	25.6 °C	23.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	15.2 °C	16.0 °C
Rain days:	3.0	5.4
Sunshine hours per day:	9.1	8.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Cyprus
Malta

Native languages

	Cyprus	Malta
Maltese:	n/a	90.1 %
Greek:	80.9 %	n/a
English:	4.1 %	6.0 %
Romanian:	2.9 %	n/a
Russian:	2.5 %	n/a
Bulgarian:	2.2 %	n/a
Arabic:	1.2 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	6.0 %	3.9 %

Religions

	Cyprus	Malta
State religion:	none	Catholic and Apostolic Church
Christianity:	94.0 %	90.0 %
Islam:	1.8 %	n/a
Buddhism:	1.0 %	n/a
Nondenominational:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.6 %	10.0 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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