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Workers from the former Yugoslavia and former communist nations are the greatest cohort of foreign workers on the island, parliamentary statistics issued last week show.
Chinese workers rank second in the list of non-EU nationals working in Malta.
Malta is in fact home to 273 workers from Yugoslavia, with Chinese workers ranking second with 261. India is third with 221 workers in Malta.
The major foreign cohort in Malta are English, with 350 workers, the largest from an EU country. Next in line from the EU are Germans, 132, and Italians, 118.
Altogether, nationals from the former communist states in Eastern Europe and other former Soviet republics total 728.
Workers from North Africa and the Middle East total 216, the majority of Libya nationality, 118.
Malta is also home to some 2,000 foreign students attending the University of Malta, the majority of which are Chinese and other Asian students.
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