Spain

Country at a glance

Spain is a southern europe member of the European Union, with its capital in Madrid. The country joined the European Communities in 1986 in the Iberian enlargement (alongside Portugal and Spain). Economically, Spain is the EU's fourth-largest economy, with a services-and-tourism orientation, strong renewable-energy build-out, and a federal autonomous-community structure. The country has used the euro since 1999, and it is part of the Schengen area for cross-border movement. The official languages are Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque and the country is divided into 7 NUTS-1 statistical regions for the purposes of Eurostat reporting. On Eurostat's headline indicators, Spain is currently 4th-most populous of the 27 member states with data on record.

Key insights

How Spain stands out across the EU-27 on flagship indicators — auto-generated from the latest Eurostat snapshot.

• 🔴Unemployment 10.5% — 1st highest in EU (EU avg 6.0%)
• 🟡Fertility rate 1.1 — well below the 2.1 replacement level
• 🟡Early school leavers 12.8% — 3rd highest in EU
• 🟢Life expectancy 84.0 years — top 1 in EU (EU avg 81.5)
• 🔵Among the top 3 EU destinations for first-time asylum applications (21k)
• 🔵252k acquisitions of citizenship — 2nd highest volume in EU
• 🔵562k first residence permits issued — 1st most in EU

Spain vs EU-27

Flagship indicators alongside the EU-27 average and Spain's rank across covered member states.

Indicators by topic

Every Eurostat indicator we hold for Spain, grouped by theme. Click through to the indicator profile for the cross-country timeline.

More data on Spain

This profile covers Eurostat statistical indicators. The pages below extend the picture into other strands of EU public data — parliamentary representation, public procurement, EU-funded research, cohesion-fund spending, regional statistics.

• European Parliament

  MEPs elected from Spain (current term, 2024–2029).

• Public tenders

  TED notices from Spain buyers — public contracts above EU thresholds.

• EU research grants

  CORDIS-funded R&D projects coordinated from Spain.

• Cohesion funds

  Kohesio-listed ERDF/ESF+/Cohesion Fund projects in Spain.

Sources & methodology

Data on this page comes from Eurostat (407 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Each indicator card links to the cross-country profile with the full year-by-year timeline. See methodology for caveats, revision policy and ranking definitions, or sources for the complete dataset list.

Last refreshed: 2026-05-18 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API

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