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A New "boom" of Immigration From South America Triggers The Balearic Population

12/08/2022

Baleares is gaining population due to southamerican migration

Un nuevo ‘boom’ de inmigración desde Sudamérica dispara la población balear

The Balearic Islands are experiencing what may be a new ’boom' in immigration from South America. In the first six months of the year, the population of the Islands has grown by 8,290 inhabitants, the steepest increase in the entire state in percentage terms, but the growth does not respond to new births or the arrival of a citizen of the Peninsula. They are not even Germans who buy luxury mansions, because almost half of those 8,290 new Balearic Islands, a total of 3,944, come from some country in South America.

The data just published by the National Statistics Institute indicate that on July 1 of this year a total of 1,232,270 people lived on the Islands, 8,290 more than six months earlier. That means that the Balearic Islands can end the year doubling that number. The most significant of these figures is that the Islands lost indigenous population because there were more deaths than births (a total of 523) and because more people left for the Peninsula than came (400).

That is, if it were not for the arrival of foreigners, the Balearic Islands would currently be in the situation of population loss. The number of arrivals of people from other countries has not stopped growing since the INE has data, although with one exception. In 2013, the population of the Balearic Islands decreased because many of the immigration that arrived to the Islands with the economy in growth figures that exceeded two figures returned to their countries when everything went wrong.

Source: https://www.ultimahora.es/

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