As of January 2025, roughly ******* inhabitants were living on ************* Tenerife had the largest number of inhabitants at *******. Overall, the population of Spain in 2025, by gender and autonomous community shows that the ************** were the seventh-largest autonomous community in Spain when ranked by population with **** million male and **** million female inhabitants. The most populous autonomous communities were *********, *********, and ******. The largest age group in the Canary Islands was that made of people aged between 50 and 54, accounting for ******* inhabitants.

The largest age groups in the Canary Islands as of January 2025 were those between 45 and 54 years old. Specifically, those aged between 50 and 54 years old exceeded *******. Tenerife is the community's island with the largest number of inhabitants.

The number of inbound visitors in Fuerteventura, Spain surpassed *********** in 2022, displaying a full recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. With *** thousand inhabitants, Fuerteventura has the fourth biggest population among all seven Canary Islands.

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With roughly *** thousand tourists, Germany was the most popular country of origin among visitors to Fuerteventura in 2022. Mainland Spain was in the third place with around *********** of that figure.

Evolutionary molecular studies of island radiations may lead to insights in the role of vicariance, founder events, population size and drift in the processes of population differentiation. We evaluate the degree of population genetic differentiation and fixation of the Canary Islands blue tit subspecies complex using microsatellite markers and aim to get insights in the population history using coalescence based methods. The Canary Island populations were strongly genetically differentiated and had reduced diversity with pronounced fixation including many private alleles. In population structure models, the relationship between the central island populations (La Gomera, Tenerife and Gran Canaria) and El Hierro was difficult to disentangle whereas the two European populations showed consistent clustering, the two eastern islands (Fuerteventura and Lanzarote) and Morocco weak clustering, and La Palma a consistent unique lineage. Coalescence based models suggested that the European mainland forms an outgroup to the Afrocanarian population, a split between the western island group (La Palma and El Hierro) and the central island group, and recent splits between the three central islands, and between the two eastern islands and Morocco, respectively. It is clear that strong genetic drift and low level of concurrent gene flow among populations have shaped complex allelic patterns of fixation and skewed frequencies over the archipelago. However, understanding the population history remains challenging; in particular, the pattern of extreme divergence with low genetic diversity and yet unique genetic material in the Canary Island system requires an explanation. A potential scenario is population contractions of a historically large and genetically variable Afrocanarian population, with vicariance and drift following in the wake. The suggestion from sequence-based analyses of a Pleistocene extinction of a substantial part of North Africa and a Pleistocene/Holocene eastward re-colonisation of western North Africa from the Canaries remains possible.

In 2023, approximately ** million international tourists visited the Canary Islands in Spain, which represents an increase of roughly ** percent versus the previous year. In *****, the record number of visitors in this Spanish archipelago was set in 2017.

Eight islands with lots of options for tourists

The Canary Islands, or the Canaries, are a group of islands off the Northwestern coast of Africa and one of Spain’s ** autonomous communities. The archipelago is made up of eight inhabited islands: Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro and La Graciosa. Tenerife is most visited island, followed by Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, all popular vacation travel destinations, especially for European holidaymakers.

Main source markets

The Canaries are the third most visited Spanish region after the Balearic Islands and Catalonia. The UK and Germany are two key visitor markets for the islands. Along with France they make up the three leading international tourist markets visiting Spain. Spanish residents also commonly visit the islands for domestic trips (494520).

As with arrivals of international tourists, the visitor expenditure has increased significantly due to a rapid recovery from the coronavirus crisis. In 2022, foreign tourists who visited the Canary Islands spent more than they did in 2019.

Topographic Map 1:1,000. Geographical area where it is located: Canary Islands. Year of flight 2007. Reference System ITRF93, Elipsoide WGS84, REGCAN95 Geodesic Network (version 2001), UTM Husso 28 projection system and altitudes referring to the average sea level determined on each island. Storage format: DGN v8. Level curves every 1 meter and director level curves every 5 meters. The series presents the traditional content of topographic cartography. Physical geography: relief, hydrography and land uses. Human geography: population centers and constructions, natural resources and industry, communication routes, administrative divisions and geodesic supports. Toponymy and labeling. Photogrammetric flight Analog scale 1:5,000. Islands and dates: The Iron: 20/06/2007-13/03/2008, Fuerteventura: 11/06/2007-06/07/2007, Gran Canaria: 26/05/2007-06/11/2007, La Gomera: 25/05/2007-04/08/2007, La Palma: 25/05/2007-04/08/2007, Lanzarote: 06/07/2007-09/11/2007, Tenerife: 22/05/2007-17/10/2007.