Spain in Europe
🇪🇺 Spain in Europe
Is Spain above or below the European average? Here it is compared with the rest of Europe on 82 Eurostat indicators. Eurostat is the EU's statistical office, and it measures every country in the same way: the same labour force and living conditions surveys, the same national and public accounts. Figures are per inhabitant, in percentages or in purchasing power parity (which allows for the fact that living costs differ between countries), never in totals that only reflect the size of each country. For the rest of the world, see Spain in the world.
Better or worse is only judged for the 55 indicators where more is clearly better (employment, income, life expectancy…) or clearly worse (unemployment, poverty, emissions…). For the rest (inflation, fertility, public spending, median age…) the rank simply runs from highest to lowest, without judgement.
All indicators
Search for an indicator or filter by section, then click its row to see the map of Europe, the country ranking and Spain's trend compared with the EU.
| Indicator | Section | Spain | EU-27 | EU rank | Vs the EU | Year |
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Notes
- Countries: those Eurostat publishes in each table: the 27 EU members, nearly always Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, and often the United Kingdom (up to 2019 or 2020) and the candidate countries (Turkey, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania…). The EU-27 average is Eurostat's own (weighted by population or by GDP, depending on the indicator), not the simple average of the countries.
- Reference year: the latest year with data for Spain and for most countries. Some countries publish earlier, so there may be more recent years with fewer countries: you can pick them in the map's drop-down.
- Rank: 1 is the best (the highest value if more is better, the lowest if more is worse). For indicators with no clear reading, 1 is the highest value.
- Purchasing power parity (PPP): Eurostat converts euros and other currencies into a common unit that removes price differences between countries, to compare what money can really buy.
- The map colours split the countries into five groups with the same number of countries in each. Green is better and red is worse; for indicators with no clear reading, darker blue is higher.
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