The foreign resident population of Lanzarote fell by 0.3%, while the Spanish population increased by 22.6% between 2010 and 2023, according to the latest report from the CEOE of Tenerife 'Monitor of the Canary Islands Economy: Compared insular economic models, inefficiencies and solutions', based on data from the National Institute of Statistics.
Only in Fuerteventura was there a greater percentage increase in Spanish residents (27.3% more) in the same period, but in the neighboring island the resident foreign population also grew, it did so by 23%.
The only other island, in addition to Lanzarote, that lost resident foreign population was La Gomera, with a decrease of 15.4% in the last thirteen years.
Meanwhile, the percentage of foreigners grew very similarly in Tenerife (+22%), where there are more than 144,000 foreign residents, as in Fuerteventura, La Palma and El Hierro, which experienced increases of 23% between 2010 and 2023.
La Palma, for its part, is the only island that presents a decrease in its Spanish population, with a decrease of 1.6%.
