The population of the Canary Islands has grown by 31.61% compared to the year 2000, to 2,258,866 people, according to data released this Thursday by the General Council of Economists (CGE) in its socioeconomic profiles for the year 2025.
Based on this statistical data collected by the CGE, this growth percentage is ten points higher than the state average, which stands at 21.3% in the same period analyzed.
All this despite the fact that the natural population growth has been steadily and sharply declining since 2017. In the case of the last year analyzed, 2024, it decreased by 0.61%, which is 5,846 fewer people compared to 2023.
The Canary Islands is the fifth community in growth in the last 25 years, behind the Valencian Community and the Community of Madrid (both 31.66%), the Region of Murcia (38.08%), and the Balearic Islands, which has increased its population the most, by 47.8%.
Regarding the percentage of registered foreign population in the archipelago, it stands at 15.17% of the total, which is more than one percentage point higher than the state average, but far from the 21.67% of the Balearic Islands or the 19.46% of the Valencian Community.
In this particular matter, the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has a higher percentage of registered foreign population -15.76%- compared to Las Palmas -14.62%-.
It is also the western province that has grown the most in terms of population since the beginning of the century, 32.81% compared to 30.52% in Las Palmas.
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