Editing Palma de Mallorca (section)

== Population ==
{{Historical populations|1842|40892|1857|51871|1860|53019|1877|59159|1887|61052|1897|62626|1900|63873|1910|68416|1920|78363|1930|87746|1940|117188|1950|133397|1960|157131|1970|217525|1981|290372|1991|296754|2001|333801|2011|402044|2021|424837|source=[[National Statistics Institute (Spain)|National Statistics Institute]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Changes in the municipalities in the population census since 1842|url=https://www.ine.es/intercensal/inicio.do|publisher=[[National Institute of Statistics (Spain)|National Statistics Institute]]|language=es}}</ref>}}{{As of|2022|pre=the}} [[census]], the population of the city of Palma proper was 415,940,<ref>{{Cite web |title=INEbase Padrón - Población por municipios |url=https://www.ine.es/ |access-date=8 June 2023 |website=INE Instituto Nacional de Estadística}}</ref> and the population of the entire urban area was 550,000,<ref name="demographia2017"/> making it the twelfth largest urban area of Spain. By the start of 2019, the population of the city had risen to 416,065.<ref>Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, 2019.</ref> Almost half of the total population of Mallorca lives in Palma.

{{As of|2017}} over 60,000 non-Spanish foreigners registered with the town hall lived in Palma; the registered foreign population from 2016 to 2017 declined by 832, the numerically highest decline in the Balearics.<ref name=MajorcaDailyBritGermanDec>{{cite web|url=https://majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2018/01/19/50639/british-and-german-foreign-communities-decreasing.html|title=British and German foreign communities decreasing|publisher=Majorca Daily Bulletin|date=19 January 2018|access-date=31 August 2018}}</ref>