Demographics

The Canary Islands have a population of 2,117,519 inhabitants (2011), making it the eighth most populous of Spain'sautonomous communities, with a density of 282.6 inhabitants per km². The total area of the archipelago is 7493 km².[46]
The Canarian population includes long-tenured residents and new waves of mainland Spanish immigrants (includingGalicians, Castilians, Catalans, Basques), as well as Portuguese, Italians, Flemings and Britons. Of the total Canarian population in 2009 (2,098,593) 1,799,373 were Spanish (1,547,611 native Canarian and 178,613 from the Spanish mainland) and 299,220 foreigners. Of these, the majority are Europeans (55%), including Germans (39,505), British(37,937) and Italians (24,177). There are also 86,287 inhabitants from the Americas, mainly Colombians (21,798),Venezuelans (11,958), Cubans (11,098) and Argentines (10,159). There are also 28,136 African residents, mostlyMoroccans (16,240).

Population history
Year	Population
1768	155,763
1787	168,928
1797	173,865
1842	241,266
1860	237,036
1887	301,983
1900	364,408
1920	488,483
1940	687,937
1960	966,177
1981	1,367,646
1990	1,589,403
2000	1,716,276
2008	2,075,968
2009	2,098,593
2011	2,117,519

Population of the individual islands 

The population of the islands according the 2010 data are:

• Tenerife - 906,854
• Gran Canaria - 845,676
• Lanzarote - 141,437 (including the population of La Graciosa)
• Fuerteventura - 103,492
• La Palma - 86,324
• La Gomera - 22,776
• El Hierro - 10,960