Population (total, 1 January)

In 2021, Spain's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.2% compared to 2020, reaching 47,400,798.

Spain accounts for 10.6% of the EU-27 total of 445,891,011.

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 grown by 2.1% (from 46,418,884 in 2016).

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