ES · 2019 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Spain, 2019
In 2019, Spain's first residence permits issued (total) increased by 23.3% compared to 2018, reaching 320,037.
Spain accounts for 10.7% of the EU-27 total of 2,985,017.
Spain ranks 3rd 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 68.9% (from 189,481 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.