Employment — national citizens

In 2024, Spain's employment increased by 1.4% compared to 2023, reaching 18,106k.

Spain accounts for 10.0% of the EU-27 total of 181,463k.

Spain ranks 4th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 5.3% (from 17,189k in 2019).

Source: Eurostat dataset lfsa_egan, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.