13% of all Canary Islands residents are legally registered foreigners
According to the latest population figures from the Canarian Institute of Statistics (ISTAC) collected in 2020, there were 2,175,952 inhabitants and 292,542 registered foreigners (legally registered not irregular immigrants), which represents 13% of the total population in the archipelago. The proportion varies remarkably between islands, between 30.3% for Fuerteventura and below 8.6% for Gran Canaria.
In 2020, Fuerteventura had 119,732 registered people, of which 36,371 were foreigners, and although the figures and the percentage seem high, it is not the highest it has been in the last 20 years: in 2013 Fuerteventura registered 33.6% of foreigners, with 36,786 (the highest figure so far this century), out of a total of 109,176 inhabitants.
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