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Spain

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A consolidated migration profile for Spain: who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers. Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.

CapitalMadrid
RegionEurope
Subregion—
Population49,355,143
Refugees hosted 511,079 People protected here
Refugees from here — Fled abroad
Migrants living here 8,870,527 Foreign-born stock
Net migration 96,630 Net inflow
Asylum-seekers 248,715 Awaiting a decision
Reporting year 2025 Most recent data
Latest figures · 2025

Key migration numbers

The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.

2025Reporting year
511,079Refugees hosted
248,715Asylum-seekers
144,387Applications (year)
Migration balance

Incoming vs outgoing

Annual estimates

Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.

Net migration (year)96,630Net inflow
Migrants living here8,870,527Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Historical series

Statistics

Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).

Population profile

Sex, age, religion & more

How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.

Religion

Religious make-up over time

National shares

Share of the population by faith across the recorded years. Each line is a stored national value; nothing is estimated.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2020
Christian Muslim Jewish Unaffiliated Other

See the full religion timeline for this country →

Places of worship

Places of worship over time

Recorded counts

No places-of-worship counts are recorded for this country yet. See the Places of worship page for the full picture.

See the full places-of-worship timeline for this country → · browse individual places →

Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.

Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.

Sex

Female 50.3%
Male 49.7%

Age

0-4 4.5%
12-17 7.6%
18-59 69.8%
5-11 7.3%
60+ 9.3%
Country context

National indicators

Economy

GDP (current US$)1,906,453,309,985.90 USD2025
GDP per capita (current US$)38,627.25 USD2025
Unemployment (% of labour force)10.38 %2025
Personal remittances received (US$)6,856,048,451.10 USD2025
Personal remittances received (% of GDP)0.36 %2025

Population

Population, total49,355,143.00 people2025
Population density96.76 people/km22023

Migration

Net migration96,630.00 people2025
International migrant stock, total8,870,527.00 people2024
International migrant stock (% of population)18.50 %2024

Asylum decisions

Asylum decisions - recognised7,867.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - rejected68,278.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - otherwise closed16,990.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - total160,567.00 people2025

Durable solutions

Returned refugees3,000.00 people2025
Resettlement arrivals860.00 people2025

Other

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)83.89 years2024
Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)98.51 %2024
Current health expenditure (% of GDP)9.22 %2023
Gini index33.40 2023
Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (% of population)0.80 %2023
Context

Migration & quality of life

These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.

Economy

Gross domestic product

World Bank

GDP (current US$)

$1.91T

Reported 2025

GDP per capita (current US$)

$38,627

Reported 2025

Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.

Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).

Public safety

Recorded crime

Not migrant offending

National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.

Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available
CrimeRate / 100k
0.46
Homicide0.69
Public expenditure

Expenses

Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.

YearAmount (USD)Category
2024$4,129,890,000ODA provided
2023$3,650,440,000ODA provided
2022$4,046,530,000ODA provided
2021$3,358,480,000ODA provided
2020$2,739,270,000ODA provided
2019$2,708,700,000ODA provided
2018$2,589,590,000ODA provided
2017$2,560,300,000ODA provided
2016$4,223,670,000ODA provided
2015$1,396,740,000ODA provided
2014$1,876,830,000ODA provided
2013$2,348,090,000ODA provided
2012$2,037,330,000ODA provided
2011$4,173,110,000ODA provided
2010$5,949,460,000ODA provided
2009$6,584,110,000ODA provided
2008$6,866,830,000ODA provided
2007$5,139,800,000ODA provided
2006$3,813,670,000ODA provided
2005$3,018,300,000ODA provided
2004$2,436,990,000ODA provided
2003$1,961,260,000ODA provided
2002$1,712,210,000ODA provided
2001$1,737,040,000ODA provided
2000$1,194,820,000ODA provided
1999$1,363,280,000ODA provided
1998$1,375,680,000ODA provided
1997$1,234,400,000ODA provided
1996$1,251,430,000ODA provided
1995$1,348,160,000ODA provided
1994$1,304,510,000ODA provided
1993$1,303,590,000ODA provided
1992$1,518,220,000ODA provided
1991$1,261,690,000ODA provided
1990$965,000,000ODA provided
1989$541,300,000ODA provided
1988$248,200,000ODA provided
1987$231,360,000ODA provided
1986$203,200,000ODA provided
1985$168,800,000ODA provided
1984$135,000,000ODA provided
1983$69,000,000ODA provided
1982$236,000,000ODA provided
1981$238,000,000ODA provided
1980$162,000,000ODA provided
Sources & notes

Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.