The Balearic Islands began 2026 with a 1.44% increase in births, according to data for January published this Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Specifically, a total of 773 births occurred in the archipelago during the first month of the year. Of those born in January, 391 were girls and 382 were boys. The majority of births were to mothers in the 30-34 age bracket (260), followed by those aged 35-39 (233) and 25-29 (138). Regarding deaths, the INE statistics published this Wednesday reveal that 1,807 deaths were recorded in the Balearic Islands up to week 9 of 2026, a 0.14% increase compared to the same week of the previous year. 193 people died in the Islands this week alone.

The Balearic Islands ended 2025 with a 2.56% decrease in the birth rate compared to the previous year, according to data published this Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Specifically, a total of 8,835 births occurred in the archipelago last year, 774 of them in December alone. Of those born in the last month of the year, 399 were girls and 375 were boys. The majority of births were to mothers in the 30-34 age bracket (277), followed by those aged 35-39 (197) and 25-29 (143).

The population of the Balearic Islands has grown by 0.93% compared to last year. This is according to provisional data from the Continuous Population Survey (ECP) as of October 1st, published this Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Compared to the previous quarter, the population grew by 0.20% in the third quarter, reaching 1.25 million inhabitants. Of the total population of the archipelago, 625,685 are men and 629,376 are women. According to the statistics, 974,288 people live in Mallorca; 165,648 in Ibiza; 103,281 in Menorca; and 11,844 in Formentera.

Births in the Balearic Islands fell by 4.66% between January and August 2025 compared to the same period last year, to 5,667 births, according to data released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

In the debate on the state of the region, the president recently placed the demographic issue at the center of the political debate. Population growth—in practice, a subterfuge to avoid directly addressing immigration—has become the center of the debate because part of the political class specializes in creating new problems instead of providing effective solutions to existing ones. In fact, I'll just remind you that just a month ago, the regional government was exposed when the Civil Society Forum revealed the data from the survey by the same government's Tourism Strategy Agency, which indicated that what really bothers a large part of the citizenry is the number of tourists we have.

If the Balearic Islands were a factory, their recent history would be that of a center that has significantly increased its production (155% between 2000 and 2023), and that has achieved the second-highest growth in the entire Spanish state, behind only the community of Madrid. But a more analytical look, such as that conducted by three specialists commissioned by the Círculo de Economía de Mallorca, reveals a key fact that explains the current situation: this factory that is the Islands has had to hire so many new employees to produce more that when it comes time to distribute wages, the result is a "very significant" inefficiency, as it says.