The Cabildo produces an excellent document at regular intervals, called “Lanzarote en cifras,” which translates to “Lanzarote in figures,” but I prefer to use the more user friendly translation of Lanzarote in numbers.
Lanzarote in numbers 2023
As always, there’s a link below where you can download the whole thing, but I love to pick out the key bits for a summary here:
Population
- The island’s population has grown to 159,021
- When you add in the tourists per day, the total population is 208,864
- Arrecife (64,826) is the most populous municipality
- Haria (5507) is the least
Weather
- The average temperature was 22.7 degrees
- We had 32 days with rain during the year
- The total rainfall was 38.7 mm.
Business
- There are 5,029 companies registered on the island
- 4301 of those, 85%, are in the service sector
- 7923 people are unemployed, the lowest figure since 2007
Tourism
- Just under 3.2 million tourists visited Lanzarote during the year
- 48% were from UK, 11% from Ireland and 10% from Spain
- They stayed an average of 7.9 nights
Here’s where you can download and read the whole document, in both Spanish and English: Lanzarote en cifras.
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