The Canary Islands have officially exceeded (and pending definitive data) two million people according to the data made public today by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) in its Advance of the Municipal Register as of January 1, 2007.
Specifically, 25,114 registrations during the past year have placed the Canary population ceiling at 2,020,947 people, when in 2006 there were 1,995,833 people, which places it in relative and absolute terms in the state average in terms of increases.
The autonomous communities that have registered the largest population increases between January 1, 2006 and January 1, 2007 are the Comunitat Valenciana (with an increase of almost 68,000 people), Andalusia (close to 64,000 more), Catalonia (with more than 62,000) and Madrid (with more than 53,000). On the contrary, Asturias decreases its population by about 2,000 people and the number of registered people in Ceuta hardly presents any variation. In Melilla, Castilla y León, La Rioja and Extremadura the population increases by about 2,000 inhabitants.
In relative terms, the largest population increases occur in Melilla (2.88%), Illes Balears (2.80%) and Castilla-La Mancha (2.22%). The smallest increases occur in Castilla y León (0.08%), Galicia (0.14%), Extremadura (0.22%) and País Vasco (0.35%). Asturias loses 0.21% of its population.
The total number of residents in Spain as of January 1, 2007 is 45.12 million, according to the
advance of the Municipal Register, which represents an increase of 408,000 people in relation to the data of January 1, 2006. Of this total, 40.63 million correspond to people of Spanish nationality and 4.48 million are foreigners.
FOREIGNERS
The proportion of foreigners, which reached 9.3% of the total population as of January 1, 2006, has stood at 9.9% according to the advance data of the Register as of January 1, 2007. The communities with the highest proportion of foreigners are Illes Balears (18.4%), Comunitat Valenciana (14.9%), Murcia (14.4%), Madrid (14.1%), Catalonia (13.4%) and the Canary Islands (12.3%).
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