A total of 391,795 inhabitants are distributed among the 13 tourist municipalities of the Canary Islands. That is, 18% of the population lives in some of the towns that make up the Association of Tourist Municipalities of the Canary Islands. In six of these municipalities, the paradox is that the foreign population even exceeds the Canarian population. This is reflected in the report Tourism of the Canary Islands: a multi-model to be reviewed, prepared by the Official College of Economists of Las Palmas.
In Lanzarote, 61,418 people live in the tourist municipalities. Yaiza is the fifth Canarian tourist municipality with the highest number of foreign residents. Specifically, in the southern town, 46.7% of the population was born abroad; while Canarian inhabitants represent 31.9%, being the tourist municipality with the fewest Canarian inhabitants and, in turn, the one with the largest population from the peninsula, with 21.4%.
In the case of Tías, the foreign population is smaller than the Canarian population, but "they have very similar proportions in both groups", with 43.1% foreigners and 48.4% Canarians. Thus, in Teguise, Canarians account for 59.1%, peninsulars 16.8% and foreigners 24.1%.
The aforementioned report states that "foreigners mostly live in tourist micro-destinations", which in the case of Lanzarote are Teguise, Tías and Yaiza. On average in the archipelago, 46.5% of residents in tourist municipalities were born in the Canary Islands, 41.7% are foreigners and 11.8% were born in the rest of the country.
These figures are in contrast to the data from the Canary Islands, where 71% of the population residing in the islands was born in the archipelago, 20.4% are foreigners and 8.6% come from the rest of Spain.
