Balearic Islands has in August has broken a new record for human pressure with 2,079,541 people on the islands on August 7, according to the indicator prepared by the Balearic Institute of Statistics (Ibestat).
In fact, the figure did not go down from the 1,878,282 people on August 31 in the whole month and the figure of 1,878,282 in the whole monththe average stood at 2,018,506 peoplein both cases, the figures represent the highest record in the historical series since 1997.
Likewise, the maximum figure registered in August represents 1.86 percent more than the maximum number of people counted in the same month last year, with 37,982 more people.
Ibiza and Formentera
By islands, in August 2024, on the day of greatest human pressure in Mallorca, 1,513,477 people were reached; in Menorca, 232,166 people; in Ibiza, 309,218 people (August 16), and in Formentera, 34,499 people (August 9).
Comparing the period between January and August in the years 2023 and 2024, the peak value of the population burden in the Islands as a whole has gone from 2,041,559 in 2023 to 2,079,541 this year, which represents a increase of 1.9 percent.
As for the minimum values during the first eight months of the year, there has been an increase of 2.1 percent, from 1,192,320 persons in 2023 to 1,216,864, in 2024. Thus, in both years the maximum load from January to August represented 1.7 times the minimum.
In Mallorca, this ratio between the maximum and minimum values from January to August was 1.6 in both periods, while in Menorca it went from 2.4 to 2.3. Finally, in Ibiza and Formentera, the ratio has gone from 2.3 to 2.1.
Likewise, Ibestat points out that the maximum load from the beginning of the year to August in Ibiza in 2023 was 2.2 times the minimum and 2.1 times in 2024. As for Formentera, the ratio was 3.6 in the first eight months of 2023 and 3.5 this year.
Similarly, the maximum human pressure in Mallorca in August this year has increased by 3 percent compared to the same month in 2023, while the minimum has risen by 3.5 percent.
In this line, the maximum and minimum values have increased in Menorca, compared to August of the previous year, by 1.1 percent and 0.6 percent, respectively.
On the contrary, in Ibiza the maximum value in August of this year has decreased by 3.6 percent with respect to 2023, while the minimum value, by 8.8 percent. In the same line is Formentera, whose maximum and minimum values in the eighth month of this year have fallen by 1.8 and 4.9 percent, respectively.
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