Spain
Spain in numbers
39 measures of Spain from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending2.13% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$37.7B in 2025
- Military spending per person$839 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel199,000 people in 2020
- National power0.66% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.87% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports237 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports341 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Spain with…
- Spain vs India
- Spain vs China
- Spain vs United States
- Spain vs Indonesia
- Spain vs Pakistan
- Spain vs Nigeria
- Spain vs Brazil
- Spain vs Bangladesh
- Spain vs Russia
- Spain vs Ethiopia
- Spain vs Mexico
- Spain vs Japan
- Spain vs Egypt
- Spain vs Philippines
- Spain vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Spain vs Vietnam
- Spain vs Iran
- Spain vs Türkiye
- Spain vs Germany
- Spain vs Thailand
- Spain vs Tanzania
- Spain vs United Kingdom
- Spain vs France
- Spain vs South Africa
- Spain vs Italy
- Spain vs Kenya
- Spain vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Spain vs Colombia
- Spain vs South Korea
- Spain vs Sudan
- Spain vs Argentina
- Spain vs Canada
- Spain vs Ukraine
- Spain vs Morocco
- Spain vs Uzbekistan
- Spain vs Saudi Arabia
- Spain vs Poland
- Spain vs Australia
- Spain vs Kazakhstan
- Spain vs Romania
- Spain vs Netherlands
- Spain vs Belgium
- Spain vs United Arab Emirates
- Spain vs Czechia
- Spain vs Portugal
- Spain vs Tajikistan
- Spain vs Sweden
- Spain vs Greece
- Spain vs Azerbaijan
- Spain vs Israel
- Spain vs Austria
- Spain vs Switzerland
- Spain vs Singapore
- Spain vs Ireland
- Spain vs Andorra
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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