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Spain
Spain is the 4th-most populous EU member state. Member of the European Union since 1986.
28 Eurostat indicators across 4 topics, with full year-by-year history.
Population
49.1M
2025 · rank 4/27
Country at a glance
Spain is a southern europe member of the European Union, with its capital in Madrid. The country joined the European Communities in 1986 in the Iberian enlargement (alongside Portugal and Spain). Economically, Spain is the EU's fourth-largest economy, with a services-and-tourism orientation, strong renewable-energy build-out, and a federal autonomous-community structure. The country has used the euro since 1999, and it is part of the Schengen area for cross-border movement. The official languages are Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque and the country is divided into 7 NUTS-1 statistical regions for the purposes of Eurostat reporting. On Eurostat's headline indicators, Spain is currently 4th-most populous of the 27 member states with data on record.
Key insights
How Spain stands out across the EU-27 on flagship indicators — auto-generated from the latest Eurostat snapshot.
- Among the top 3 EU destinations for first-time asylum applications (40k)
- 252k acquisitions of citizenship — 2nd highest volume in EU
- 562k first residence permits issued — 1st most in EU
Indicators by topic
Every Eurostat indicator we hold for Spain, grouped by theme. Click through to the indicator profile for the cross-country timeline.
Labour & employment
5 indicators- Employment — EU-foreign citizens lfsa_egan 956k 2025 ▲4.8%
- Employment — foreign citizens (any) lfsa_egan 3,435k 2025 ▲7.5%
- Employment — national citizens lfsa_egan 18,358k 2025 ▲1.4%
- Employment — non-EU foreign citizens lfsa_egan 2,465k 2025 ▲8.3%
- Employment (15-64, all citizenships) lfsa_egan 21,792k 2025 ▲2.3%
Demography & population
5 indicators- Population — EU-foreign citizens migr_pop1ctz 1,757,955 2025 ▲2.0%
- Population — national citizens migr_pop1ctz 42,216,326 2025 ▲0.2%
- Population — non-EU foreign citizens migr_pop1ctz 5,149,235 2025 ▲7.9%
- Population — stateless persons migr_pop1ctz 4,781 2025 ▲9.4%
- Population (total, 1 January) migr_pop1ctz 49,128,297 2025 ▲1.0%
Migration & asylum
15 indicators- Acquisitions of EU citizenship migr_acq 252,476 2024 ▲5.1%
- First-time asylum applications migr_asyappctzm 40,465 2026 ▼71.3%
- Asylum negative first-instance decisions migr_asydcfsta 72,655 2025 ▲85.4%
- Asylum positive first-instance decisions migr_asydcfsta 75,835 2025 ▲49.6%
- Asylum positive — humanitarian protection migr_asydcfsta 57,940 2025 ▲75.9%
- Asylum positive — refugee status migr_asydcfsta 7,810 2025 ▲23.3%
- Asylum positive — subsidiary protection migr_asydcfsta 10,090 2025 ▼11.8%
- Asylum first-instance decisions (total) migr_asydcfsta 148,490 2025 ▲65.2%
- Return orders issued to non-EU citizens migr_eiord 53,700 2025 ▼14.7%
- Returns of non-EU citizens (executed) migr_eirtn 5,705 2025 ▼6.6%
- First residence permits — education migr_resfirst 117,056 2024 ▲28.7%
- First residence permits — work migr_resfirst 95,735 2024 ▼25.7%
- First residence permits — family migr_resfirst 258,192 2024 ▲12.2%
- First residence permits — other migr_resfirst 90,657 2024 ▼8.2%
- First residence permits issued (total) migr_resfirst 561,640 2024 ▲2.4%
More data on Spain
This profile covers Eurostat statistical indicators. The pages below extend the picture into other strands of EU public data — parliamentary representation, public procurement, EU-funded research, cohesion-fund spending, regional statistics.
Sources & methodology
Data on this page comes from Eurostat (28 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Each indicator card links to the cross-country profile with the full year-by-year timeline. See methodology for caveats, revision policy and ranking definitions, or sources for the complete dataset list.
Last refreshed: 2026-06-30 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API
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