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Economy

📊 Economy

How the Spanish economy is changing. In line with the approach used across the whole site, anything that depends on the size of the country is shown per inhabitant, and anything measured in euros is shown adjusted for inflation (in 2025 euros).

GDP per inhabitant Eurostat

34,237 €

+1.6 % in 2025, in 2025 euros · real, vs previous year

Trend · €

34,236.9 23,290.8

1995 2025

GDP growth Eurostat

2.6%

real year-on-year, 2026-T2

Trend · percent

19.8 -9.1

2020-Q3 2026-Q2

Exports Eurostat

36.6% of GDP

goods and services, 2026-T2

Trend · % of GDP

40.8 27.4

2016-Q3 2026-Q2

Average wage INE / ETCL

2,376 €/month

+0.6 % gross in 2025, adjusted for inflation · real, vs previous year

Trend · €/month

2,553.2 2,310.3

2008 2025

Unemployment rate INE / EPA

9.9%

-1 pp 2026-T2 · vs previous quarter

Trend · percent

18.9 9.9

2016-Q3 2026-Q2

Inflation INE / CPI

4.9%

+0.6 pp CPI year-on-year, 2026-09 · vs previous month

Trend · percent

4.9 1.5

2023-10 2026-09

GDP per inhabitant

What the economy produces for each inhabitant, in constant euros. Quarterly growth, demand and comparison with Europe →

Sectors

Real growth in the value added of each major sector since 2019. Employment, weight and productivity by sector →

Employment

People in work per 1,000 inhabitants: it rises when jobs are created faster than the population grows. Unemployment rate →

Wages

Average gross monthly wage adjusted for inflation. Growth, sectors and deciles →

Unemployment and inflation

Exports, imports and external balance as a share of GDP

Historical series from the EPA (Labour Force Survey)

Consumer price index and energy prices

Tourists per inhabitant, their real spending and as a % of GDP, hotels and tourist flats

Businesses, entrepreneurship and R&D

Businesses per inhabitant and by size, companies created and dissolved, insolvencies, self-employed workers and R&D spending compared with Europe

Agriculture, livestock and fishing

Europe's market garden: olive oil, citrus, fruit and vegetables, pigs, wine and fishing, and Spain's place in the EU

Cars, tiles, food, trains and wind turbines: where Spain stands out and how much industry it has compared with the EU

The 2007 bubble, the collapse and the recovery: employment, public works tendered, housing permits and cement compared with the EU

Sources: Eurostat (national accounts: namq_10_gdp, nama_10_pc, nama_10_a10) and INE (EPA, Labour Force Survey, CPI, Quarterly Labour Cost Survey).