In September, when there was a 6.8% increase in tourist numbers in the Balearics to 2,437,545 and a 5.4% increase in Mallorca to 1,603,809, the average number of people per day on the islands was 1,852,752. This was four per cent higher than a year ago.
In Mallorca, the daily average was 1,358,356. The greatest numbers on a given day were 1,913,251 in the Balearics on September 1 and 1,386,430 in Mallorca on the same day.
From January to September, there has been a human pressure record for every single month in the Balearics and on individual islands, with exceptions having been for Formentera. The record for September on that island wasn't broken and nor was it in January, March, May, June, July or August.
Figures from the National Statistics Institute published in May this year gave a resident population of 1,209,722 for the Balearics and 940,471 for Mallorca.
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what all this talk of pressure i keep saying if there was no tourists there would be no mallorca
The desertification of the mainland interior continues at an alarming rate due to climate change. Even here on Mallorca we are experiencing record lows of rainfall. So, who’s the bright spark who thinks that more tourist saturation is a good thing? Hotel swimming pools, water parks, golf courses, whole glaciers of ice cubes for drinks and buffets…. Tourists are literally sucking the island dry.
And the local government wants to bring even MORE tourists to Mallorca? We are already drowning in a chronic tsunami of tourists, with little relief even in winter now. Year round amusement park. What a peaceful little island no more.