Country profile · ES
Spain
59 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions → · Screen sites in Spain →
Population
49.1m
GDP
€1.50T
GDP per capita
€30,459
Population density
97 /km²
Unemployment
10.6%
pop-weighted
Employment
72.4%
pop-weighted
Area
506,158.8 km²
NUTS-3 regions
59
Country indicators · 87 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€1.37T
country total
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€39.0B
country total
GVA — industry (B–E)
€220.1B
country total
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€164.0B
country total
GVA — construction (F)
€78.8B
country total
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€380.1B
country total
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€18,282
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
34,773 PPS
pop-weighted avg
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€30,969
pop-weighted avg
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€1.11T
country total · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€149.4B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€2.85T
country total · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€358.4B
country total
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€289.0B
country total
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€1.40T
country total
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€73,881
pop-weighted avg
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€346.4B
country total
Labour market
Employment, total persons
21.5m
country total
Self-employed persons
3.1m
country total
Employment in manufacturing (C)
2.1m
country total
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
74.9%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
25.3%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
10.6%
pop-weighted avg
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
24.8m
country total
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
3.5m
country total
Enterprise births
319.1k
country total
Enterprise deaths
273.5k
country total
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.2%
pop-weighted avg
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE)
1.2%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
42.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
52.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
15.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
24.9%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
97.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
505.2m
country total
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
544 /1k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
61.6k kt
pop-weighted avg
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
45.3k
country total
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
92.8
pop-weighted avg
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²)
47 km/1000km²
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
57.1
pop-weighted avg
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
47
country total
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
32.6m
country total
Population aged 65+
10.2m
country total
Population aged under 15
6.3m
country total
Median age of population
45.8 yrs
pop-weighted avg
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
31.4%
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of total population change
10.4 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
12.8 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude birth rate
6.5 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude death rate
8.9 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Live births
317.3k
country total
Deaths
433.3k
country total
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
50.9%
pop-weighted avg
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.10
pop-weighted avg
Population density (persons per km²)
366 /km²
pop-weighted avg
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
45.8m
country total
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
25.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
84.0 yrs
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional)
19.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
283 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
834 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
209 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
129 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
293 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
450 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
36 /M
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.14
pop-weighted avg
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.84
pop-weighted avg
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.96
pop-weighted avg
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.78
pop-weighted avg
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.16
pop-weighted avg
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.106/kWh
pop-weighted avg
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.048/kWh
pop-weighted avg
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
506 m
pop-weighted avg
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
56 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
18 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
6 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
18.9
pop-weighted avg
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
13.3
pop-weighted avg
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
58.9
pop-weighted avg
Industrial facilities per 100k inhabitants (E-PRTR)
206 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Population in the 100-year river floodplain (% of residents, EFAS × census grid)
1.9%
pop-weighted avg
Largest regions by GDP
ES300
Madrid
pop 7.1m · gdp €295.9B
ES511
Barcelona
pop 6m · gdp €209.6B
ES523
Valencia/València
pop 2.8m · gdp €75.5B
ES618
Sevilla
pop 2m · gdp €48.8B
ES521
Alicante/Alacant
pop 2m · gdp €46.5B
ES213
Bizkaia
pop 1.2m · gdp €44.2B
ES617
Málaga
pop 1.8m · gdp €41.2B
ES620
Murcia
pop 1.6m · gdp €39.8B
ES243
Zaragoza
pop 998.4k · gdp €34.3B
ES111
A Coruña
pop 1.1m · gdp €33.5B
ES532
Mallorca
pop 971.1k · gdp €33.3B
ES514
Tarragona
pop 875.5k · gdp €29.5B