Motorcyclist grievously injured after Birkirkara accident

Jun 2 2023

Today, at around 0710hrs, police were informed of a traffic accident in Triq Dun Karm, Birkirkara.

Police convened immediately on site and found, through preliminary investigations, that a crash had taken place between a motorcycle driven by a 25 year old Gudja resident and a Ford Fiesta driven by a 19 year old man from St Paul’s Bay.

A medical team was called on site, which took the motorcyclist to Mater Dei Hospital. He was later certified as having suffered grievous injuries.

Police investigations are ongoing.

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66.6% of Maltese are happy with their lives

Jun 2 2023

Asking the Maltese population about happiness in their lives, 66.6% of respondents said that they are content with their lives on the island.

This is, however, a decrease from 77% from 2022, which was an increase of around 17% percentage points from 2021.

3.0% said that they are not happy with their lives, an increase from 2022’s 2.5%. On the other hand, 30.3% claimed that it could be better, an almost ten time increase from 2022.

It was found that those who pay the most tax are the least content with their lives. 53.6% of those who pay 35% reported to be happy with their lives, with 68% who pay 0% saying that they are happy.

According to the statistics, it was found that around 4 out of every 5 respondent said that their standard of living was close to the average cost, with 78.9% in 2023 saying so.

This was a very slight increase from last year’s 78.4%. 8.0% said that they live below the average whereas 12.1% said that they live above it.

45.7% of people in Malta in 2023 are unsure whether they will be living a better life in a year’s time. 39.1% believe that they will be living a better life, whereas 15.2% said they will not be living a better life.

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More than a third of under 25’s wish they were not born in Malta

Jun 2 2023

According to the third scientific survey on the State of the Nation, 35% of those below the age of 25 wished they were born in another country.

When asked whether they wished they had been born in another country other than Malta, 35% of 16 to 25 year olds said that they wished it was so.

Meanwhile, 52.8% said that they did not wish so, with 12.2% undecided. In terms of age, the 16 to 25 age group was the highest in wishing to have been born in another country.

The oldest group, over 66 years, were the least to have wished to have been born in another country, with only 8.8% of this cohort saying so.

In terms of the entire population, 74.8% in 2023 said that they are content to have been born in Malta. This is however a decrease from the previous year, which recorded 80.1%.

18.5% of the entire population said that they wished to have been born in another country, an increase from 2022 which saw 12.6% responding so. This was around double of 2021, which saw 6.3% responding that they wished to have been born somewhere else.

Asked with where they associate themselves most, 27.3% of Maltese in 2023 said that they associate themselves most with their locality.

47.4% of respondents said that they identify most with the entirety of the Maltese population. This is a decrease from 2022, which recorded 56.9%.

As for those feeling like part of the rest of Europe, only 25.3% responded that they feel most likely as part of that group. This was still an increase however from the previous year, which saw 20.6% responding so.

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88.5% of Maltese believe in God

Jun 2 2023

According to the third scientific survey on the State of the Nation, 88.5% of Maltese claimed to believe in God, but religion lost popularity overall.

88.5% of people believing in God is a decrease from 2021, which saw 93.5% saying they believe in God and 2022 with a ranking of 90.5%.

4.9% in 2023 said that they do not know whether they believe in God or not, which is an increase from last year’s 4.5. Meanwhile, 6.6% said they outright do not believe.

As per age, 98.5% of those aged 56-65 said that they believe in God, the largest cohort in this regard. On the other side, those aged 16-25 years were less likely to believe in God.

70.6% in this cohort said that they believe in God, whereas 25% said that they do not. 4.4% of this group said that they do not know. This means, statistician Vincent Marmara said, that 1 out of every 4 in the 16-25 age group do not believe in God.

As for religion, 61.4% of the respondents said that religion is very important for them, which is an increase from 58.1% last year.

2.9% are unsure about this, which is still an increase from last year. 9.7% do not consider religion important at all, which is a decrease from 2022 with 9.4% and 10.8% in 2021.

Religion is still most important for the older generations, considered most important for the 56-65 age group at 85.4%. And, once again, it is the youngest generations who consider religion least important.

37.8% of the 16 to 25 age group consider religion very important for themselves. 31.7% consider it kind of important, whereas 26.7% consider it not important at all. 1.9% do not know.

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