The municipalities of Santa Brígida and El Rosario had the highest levels of average annual net income per inhabitant of the Canary Islands in the year 2022

27 Nov The municipalities of Santa Brígida and El Rosario had the highest levels of average annual net income per inhabitant of the Canary Islands in the year 2022

By Instituto Canario de Estadística, (ISTAC), del Gobierno de Canarias En 2022 Garafía and Puntagorda in La Palma had the lowest rental values ​​in the archipelago
average annual net per inhabitant with 8.512 and 9.092 euros per person respectively. En el año 2021
They were also the municipalities with the lowest incomes (con 7.775 and 7.973 euros per person
respectivamente).

These figures are published in the household income distribution atlas that provides data
annual by municipalities and sections of the Canary Islands on income, inequality and percentage indicators
of the population with income per unit of consumption below or above certain income thresholds
income.

Another indicator obtained in this publication is the Gini index, which is used to study
economic inequality based on the measurement of the concentration of income in many or few
people. The value of the Gini Index is 0 in situations of maximum equity and 100 in situations of
maximum inequality.

The highest values ​​of the Gini Index in the year 2022 They met in Puntagorda and Garafía in La
palm with 36,5 and 36,1 respectively and the minors in Tinajo in Lanzarote (26), Alajeró in La
Gomera (26,4) and El Tanque in Tenerife (26,4).

Source:: Noticias Económicas de Canarias