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Fuerteventura Population
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The population registered on Fuerteventura increased by 2,976 inhabitants in the last twelve months, reaching a total of 113,275 in the six municipalities of Fuerteventura, representing a percentage increase of 2.7%. This is shown in the latest official data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Pájara is the municipality of that experienced the greatest growth, with 716 inhabitants more than a year ago, going from 19,823 to 20,539.
In second place is the municipality of Puerto del Rosario, with 671 more inhabitants, going from 38,711 to 39,382.
In third place is the municipality of Antigua, which increased its population by 543 new registered citizens, going from 11,405 to 11,948.
In fourth place is La Oliva, where there are 535 registered citizens, from 25,349 to 25,884.
In fifth place of population growth is Tuineje, with 490 more inhabitants in twelve months, from 14,301 to 14,791.
In last place is located the municipality of Betancuria, which grew by  21 inhabitants, going from 710 to 731.
In percentage terms, Antigua has grown 4.5%; Pájara, 3.4%; Tuineje, 3.3%; Betancuria, 2.8%; La Oliva, 2.6%; and Puerto del Rosario, just 1.7%.
Analyzing the data of  INE for the last decade for Fuerteventura, from 2008 to 2018, it is observed that the population has grown every year, except on January 1, 2014, when there was a sharp decrease of 2,244  people, (2.2% less). All of the other start of the years have shown increases, the largest of them in 2008, with 6,543 more inhabitants (+ 6.9%); 2018, with 2,976 more inhabitants (+ 2.7%), and 2017, with 2,778 more inhabitants (+ 2.58%). In the years of the crisis there were smaller increases - in 2010, 325 more inhabitants (+ 0.32%), and 2011, with 580 more (+ 0.56%). 
Unemployment rise
Population growth could be indicative that, despite the improvement in the economic situation experienced in recent years, unemployment data on the island remains high. In fact, last year 2018 unemployment increased on the island by 114 people to stand at 8,691, which represents a rise of 1.3%.
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Thanks Captain. Would be interesting to know the nationality breakdown of the population increase - I wonder how many are British people legalising their status ahead of Brexit? Do you know how the data is obtained/where from?
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I can imagine that quite a few British people have registered recently ahead of Brexit.

I'm always suspicious of how accurate the statistics are because of people coming/leaving the island, without telling the authorities.

The statistics are compiled by the Instituto Nacional Estadistica, and were published on Canarias7 - I translated the article.
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(04-04-2019, 12:55 PM)Sam Wrote: Had a proper look around the web and found this @ gobiernodecanarias.org (Instituto Canario de Estadística)

Foreign population by country of birth - year 2018


TOTAL: 32,112
 
  1. Italy: 6,418
  2. United Kingdom: 3,559
  3. Germany: 3,503
  4. Morocco: 2,883
  5. Spain: 2,202
  6. Colombia: 1,611
  7. Argentina: 1,011  
  8. Portugal: 749
  9. France: 633
  10. Cuba: 594
  11. Senegal: 545
  12. India: 530
  13. Uruguay: 511
  14. China: 472
  15. Romania: 471
  16. Venezuela: 414
  17. Bulgaria: 383
  18. Belgium: 329
  19. Mauritania: 316
  20. Dominican Rep: 308
  21. Netherlands: 308
  22. Austria: 199
  23. Switzerland: 196
  24. Ecuador: 166
  25. Chile: 149

Strange, No Paddies ☘️🇮🇪
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(04-04-2019, 08:02 PM)Can the Man Wrote: Strange, No Paddies ☘️🇮🇪

Deeply strange! I find it quite hard to believe that there are fewer than 150 Irish residents? You meet someone from Ireland here every day, and yet I've never spoken to anyone from Cuba or Switzerland!
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Yes it is strange, just oesto show how wrong "statistics" can be!!!  However, one of the the dentists in Caleta is from Cuba!!
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If there are less than 50 Irish people here I must know most of them Confused  either that or they are from N. Ireland and included in The UK figures, my Doctor is Cuban as is one of the nurses at The Medical Centre, that along with Emmi's dentist, do we see a pattern here?
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Couple of years ago I had to go to the Centro Salud in Puerto,and the Doctor I saw was from Syria.
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(05-04-2019, 08:46 AM)Sam Wrote: The issue is, they have selection of only 44 ("countries") in their script. Ireland isn't one of them. It's in the "Rest of the EU" box with another 13 EU countries (Which accounts for 18,342 residents).

Code:
TOTAL
ESPAÑA
EXTRANJERO
RESTO DE UE-28
Alemania
Austria
Bélgica
Bulgaria
Finlandia
Francia
Italia
Países Bajos
Portugal
Reino Unido
Rumanía
Suecia
Ampliación de 2004
Otros países de la Unión Europea
RESTO EUROPA
Noruega
Suiza
Otros países de Europa
ÁFRICA
Marruecos
Mauritania
Senegal
Otros de África
AMÉRICA
Argentina
Chile
Colombia
Cuba
Ecuador
Rep. Dominicana
Uruguay
Venezuela
Otros países de América
ASIA
China
República de Corea del Sur
Filipinas
India
Otros países de Asia
OCEANÍA

So for statistical analysis by a European country, they bundle 14 European cousins together. Bit of a slap in the face.  Angry
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(08-04-2019, 02:46 PM)Sam Wrote: Just came across some (a few decades) old numbers. Found it in the book "INDUSTRIALIZACIÓN EN LAS PALMAS - MARCO, LEGISLACIÓN Y POSIBILIDADES"



Total population of Fuerteventura in years:


1900 - 11,669
1910 - 10,613
1920 - 11,305
1930 - 11,708
1940 - 13,173
1950 - 13,517
1960 - 18,138
1970 - 18,192

2003 - 74,983 (Wikipedia)

2017 - 110,299 Diario de Fuerteventura

2018 - 113,275 (Instituto Canario de Estadística)



Also 9,012 tourists came to the island in the year 1971, 60% of them from Germany.

Not much happening between 1950 and 1960 unless there were a great many deaths or people leaving the island.
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