Employment — national citizens

In 2025, Spain's employment increased by 1.4% compared to 2024, reaching 18,358k.

Spain accounts for 10.1% of the EU-27 total of 181,552k.

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 10.2% (from 16,660k in 2020).

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