Population — national citizens

In 2021, Spain's population decreased by 0.2% compared to 2020, reaching 41,998,096.

Spain accounts for 10.3% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

Spain ranks 4th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 0.0% (from 41,999,550 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.