According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Malčište appears as being inhabited by an Orthodox Christian population. Some families had a mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponomy. The names are:Niko son of Dom-ina, Radoslav son of Dom-ina, Hranislav son of Dona, Bojko son of Dona, Gropça son of Goja, Radislav son of Dominiko, Spana (Stana) widow.[2]
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Malčište was inhabited by 90 Muslim Albanians.[3] On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is shown as an Albanian village.[4] The Yugoslav census of 1953 recorded 194 people of whom 135 were Albanians, 52 Turks and 7 Macedonians.[5] The 1961 Yugoslav census recorded 159 people of whom were 158 Turks and 1 Albanian.[5] The 1971 census recorded 51 people of whom were Turks.[5] The 1981 Yugoslav census recorded 69 people of whom were 47 Turks, 17 Albanians, 1 Macedonian and 4 others.[5] The Macedonian census of 1994 recorded 7 Turks.[5]
According to the 2021 census, the village had a total of 38 inhabitants.[6] Ethnic groups in the village include:[6]
| Year |
Macedonian |
Albanian |
Turks |
Romani |
Vlachs |
Serbs |
Bosniaks |
Others |
Total |
|---|
| 2002 |
... |
9 |
51 |
... |
... |
... |
... |
... |
60 |
| 2021 |
... |
12 |
... |
... |
... |
... |
... |
26 |
38 |
|
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