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Spain: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

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Country: Spain Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 Year: 2025

Country overview

Spain

Current reading for Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Latest value

5.20 Ratio

European ranking

6 / 30

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+0.7 puntos

Spain is 0.7 points above the European average.

EU: 4.53

Affected population

49.1M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 5.24 Ratio Europe benchmark: 4.73 Ratio

Internal regions

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Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Ciudad de Melilla

    +171.20

    14.10

  2. 2

    Ciudad de Ceuta

    +34.60

    7.00

  3. 3

    Comunitat Valenciana

    +11.50

    5.80

  4. 4

    Andalucía

    +1.90

    5.30

  5. 5

    Castilla y León

    -1.90

    5.10

  6. 6

    Comunidad de Madrid

    -3.80

    5.00

  7. 7

    Canarias

    -3.80

    5.00

  8. 8

    Región de Murcia

    -3.80

    5.00

  9. 9

    Principado de Asturias

    -5.80

    4.90

  10. 10

    La Rioja

    -7.70

    4.80

  11. 11

    Comunidad Foral de Navarra

    -7.70

    4.80

  12. 12

    Cataluña

    -9.60

    4.70

  13. 13

    Castilla-La Mancha

    -9.60

    4.70

  14. 14

    País Vasco

    -13.50

    4.50

  15. 15

    Galicia

    -13.50

    4.50

  16. 16

    Extremadura

    -13.50

    4.50

  17. 17

    Illes Balears

    -13.50

    4.50

  18. 18

    Cantabria

    -17.30

    4.30

  19. 19

    Aragón

    -21.20

    4.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Spain performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Income quintile share ratio S80/S20, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Spain

In Spain, S80/S20 ratio is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 5.24 versus 4.73 in 2025, with a gap of 0.51 in the ratio.

Recent trend

In Spain, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 5.77 in 2020 to 5.24 in 2025. The latest step, from 5.39 in 2024 to 5.24 in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.

Regional differences in Spain

In Spain, regional differences in S80/S20 ratio are pronounced. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Melilla records the highest value (14.1) and Aragón the lowest (4.1), a gap of 10 in the ratio.

Reading within the topic

In Spain, the evidence for Income & Purchasing Power leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.