Ibiza saw a larger population in May than 10 years ago, adding Formentera’s population

The first month of this summer, with full recovery after the pandemic which started in March 2020, Ibiza recorded a population peak of 255,929 people, a figure higher than that recorded by the two Pitiusas islands together in the same month ten years ago, in 2012. Then, the Pitiusas supported in one day of May a peak of 238,025 people, which represents almost 18,000 less than on a single island a decade later.

In the case of Formentera, the peak of human pressure stood in May at 26,739 inhabitants and the minimum, at 18,777. These data are lower than those of the same month of 2019 (28,922 maximum and 20,222 minimum), but higher than those recorded last year (23,132 and 16,019). But above all to those of the pandemic: in May 2020 Formentera concentrated in one day at most 14,286 people (very close to its official figure of registered, 11,708 in January 2021, according to the INE) and 13,937 as minimum.

Population of 26,901 people in May 2016 on Formentera

The first disaggregated data of Formentera was offered in 2016. Then, in May, a maximum population of 26,901 people were counted on the same day (more than this year) and a minimum of 18,751.

As for the accumulated data for the two islands, the population figure soars as the top this May stood at 281,848 inhabitants, just 5.049 people less than in 2019, the last year before covid and with tourism running booming.

A year later, with the virus running rampant and sowing panic, the maximum number of people on the same day on the two islands was set at 182.717, the lowest concentration between the two islands since 1999, when 181,917 were recorded.

Meanwhile, in May of last year the maximum was 212,124 inhabitants, a population figure more typical of a first month of season in the late 2000s.

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