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Spain: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Spain Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Spain

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

25.70 Percent of people

European ranking

6 / 30

Compared with Europe

+5.7 puntos

Spain is 5.7 points above the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 12.63 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 25.70 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Ciudad de Melilla

    +70.00

    43.70

  2. 2

    Ciudad de Ceuta

    +58.80

    40.80

  3. 3

    Andalucía

    +35.00

    34.70

  4. 4

    Castilla-La Mancha

    +32.30

    34.00

  5. 5

    Región de Murcia

    +26.50

    32.50

  6. 6

    Canarias

    +21.40

    31.20

  7. 7

    Comunitat Valenciana

    +19.50

    30.70

  8. 8

    Extremadura

    +18.30

    30.40

  9. 9

    Castilla y León

    -6.20

    24.10

  10. 10

    La Rioja

    -11.30

    22.80

  11. 11

    Principado de Asturias

    -12.80

    22.40

  12. 12

    Galicia

    -14.00

    22.10

  13. 13

    Cataluña

    -17.10

    21.30

  14. 14

    Comunidad de Madrid

    -24.50

    19.40

  15. 15

    Cantabria

    -25.30

    19.20

  16. 16

    Aragón

    -25.70

    19.10

  17. 17

    Comunidad Foral de Navarra

    -35.80

    16.50

  18. 18

    Illes Balears

    -40.90

    15.20

  19. 19

    País Vasco

    -42.80

    14.70

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Spain performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a large 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, Poverty or exclusion stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 25.7% versus 20.4% in 2025, a large gap of 5.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Spain, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 27.00% in 2020 to 25.70% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 25.80% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Spain

In Spain, regional differences in Poverty or exclusion are pronounced. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Melilla records the highest value (43.7%) and País Vasco the lowest (14.7%), a gap of 29 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Spain, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.