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NEWS 7 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 19 OCTOBER 2022 PAUL COCKS IN 2021, one in every four per- sons residing in Malta (25.7 per cent) was born in another coun- try, according to Labour Force Survey (LFS) module carried out during 2021 and partly financed through EU grants. The LFS is a household-based survey and is used as a monitor- ing tool across the European Un- ion for assessing progress made in various spheres of labour market and social statistics. The survey shows that the share of females in Malta in 2021 who were born abroad stood at 51.0 per cent, slightly higher than the share of males (49.0 per cent). The majority of migrants in Malta were aged between 25 and 54 years (78.1 per cent). A further 7.2 per cent were aged between 15 and 24 years, while 14.7 per cent were in the 55 to 74 age cohort. This is slightly different when compared to the persons born in Malta, where 51.9 per cent were between 25 and 54 years, 14.2 were in the 15 to 24 age cohort while, the remaining 33.8 per cent were between 55 and 74 years. Over the past 10 years, the share of persons aged 15 to 74 years living in private house- holds in Malta and who were born abroad increased signifi- cantly. A difference of 20.1 percentage points was recorded from 2012 (5.6 per cent) to 2021 (25.7 per cent). The largest increase was re- corded in 2019 where the share of persons born abroad in- creased by 3.3 percentage points. LFS results indicated that in 2021, the duration of stay for persons born abroad was on av- erage 11 years. The duration of stay was clas- sified in two categories; recent migrants (residents for less than eight years) and settled mi- grants (resident for eight years or more). Slightly more than 50 per cent of persons born abroad were recent migrants, while 49.3 per cent were settled migrants. The duration of stay varied ac- cording to one's level of educa- tion. The larger share of persons born abroad with a secondary level of education or less were settled migrants (57.7 per cent). Meanwhile, 50.3 per cent and 57.5 per cent of persons with a post-secondary and with a ter- tiary level of education were re- cent migrants. Results showed that the ma- jority of migrants in Malta were born outside the EU as opposed to 36.2 per cent of migrants who were born in the EU. Almost 15 per cent of migrants were born in Italy, followed by the United Kingdom (14.6 per cent) and the Philippines (10.5 per cent). A further 21.3 per cent were born in another EU country while 38.7 per cent were born in another country outside the EU. This implied that the majority of immigration in Malta occurs from outside the EU (63.8 per cent) as opposed to 36.2 per cent of intra-EU migration. One in four people residing in Malta in 2021 were born abroad