The Population of Ibiza and Formentera has Multiplied by Four in 160 Years

The islands of Ibiza and Formentera hashappened from 3,539 to 15,081 in the same dates.
quadruplicated their population in the last 160 years,Santa Eulària, Sant Josep and Formentera has
according to the data done by the National Institutehad some oscillation and has gotten to register
of Estadi'stica (INE). The growth of the number ofcensuses lower than the previous one, but in the last
homes has been much more spectacular, but theyears have experienced a remarkable ascent.
biggest changes has been from halves of XXThus, in 2001 Santa Eulària (second
century, with the tourist boom, since there has beenmunicipality in population) it had a census of 19,808
a tendency to the loss in the number of children ofinhabitants; Sant Josep, of 14,267, and Formentera of
the families. The fact that the population has grown5.553. In the smaller Pitiusa, perhaps by its territorial
more although the families have less children becauselimitations, the growth less is accelerated and exists a
the increase of the immigration produced the resulttendency to the comparison in number of inhabitants
of the tourist phenomenon, in which the islandsbetween the secondary municipalities of the island of
happen to be lacking manual labor towards otherEivissa (Santa Eulària, Sant Antoni and Sant
regions or foreigners, there for has been receivingJosep). Sant Joan, atypical case the smaller growth,
workers of services, Spanish as as much foreign.where in 1842 the census was of 3,655 inhabitants
The tourism also has caused the increase ofand in 2001, of 100 people less, that is to say, 3.555.
European population that has established itself in theBut they had doubled the homes, since the 613 of
islands as a second residence or his first in the case1842 happened to the 1,198 of 1991. The global
of older people and this phenomenon also affects thenumbers of Ibiza and Formentera have been
population data. The city of Ibiza and municipioo ofincreasing throughout all the exposed period. The
Sant Antoni have had a uninterupted growth duringnumber of the homes is significant to this ascending
the studied period. First it had 5,118 inhabitants incurve. The 4,062 addresses of 1842 have become
1842 and 34.826 in 2001, and the second it has33.014 in the last.