Press Release: Multidimensional Quality of Life Indicator (MQLI). Year 2025.

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Main results

Quality of life in Spain increased slightly in 2025.
The score of six of the nine dimensions of the MQLI improved compared to 2024, while Leisure and Social Relations and Physical and Personal Safety worsened.
Comunidad Foral de Navarra, La Rioja and Aragón had the highest ratings in quality of life.
Women recorded higher quality of life levels than men in Education and General Life Experience, while men recorded higher scores in Physical and Personal safety and Surroundings and Environment.
The Spanish population recorded higher quality of life levels in Education and Material Living conditions than the foreign population.

More information

This edition of the Multidimensional Quality of Life Indicator (MQLI) and onwards breaks down the results by sex, level of education and nationality, allowing differences in quality of life between different population groups to be analysed.

National results

Quality of life in Spain increased slightly in 2025. Specifically, the Multidimensional Quality of Life Indicator stood at 101.74 points, compared with 101.43 the previous year.

Evolution of the nationwide MQLI. (2008=100)

The increase in the MQLI was found in the areas of Material Living Conditions, Work, Health, Education, the Environment and Overall Life Experience. On the contrary, the scores in the areas of Leisure and Social Relations and Physical and Personal Safety worsened compared to the previous year.

The Governance and Basic Rights area remained unchanged, as it was not updated because the triennial Quality of Life module was not included in the 2025 Living Conditions Survey.

Evolution of the quality of life by dimensions. (2008=100)

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Results by sex

The Global Quality of Life Index in 2025 was higher for men (102.48 points) than for women (100.59).

Women recorded higher scores in Education and General Life Experience, with 10.95 and 9.36 points more than men, respectively.

For their part, men recorded higher values for Physical and Personal Safety and Environment and Surroundings, with differences of 16.09 and 9.19 points, respectively.

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Results by nationality

The Global Quality of Life Index recorded higher values for the Spanish population (102.76 points) than for the foreign population from the European Union (101.48) and from the rest of the world (97.28).

The Spanish population recorded higher scores in Education and Material Living Conditions. For its part, the foreign population from the European Union achieved the highest score in Overall Life Experience, while those from the rest of the world stood out in Physical and Personal Safety.

Global quality of life index by nationality and dimensions with the greatest differences. Year 2025 (2008=100)

Results by autonomous communities and cities

Comunidad Foral de Navarra, La Rioja and Aragón had the highest quality of life ratings in 2025. The lowest scores were found in Canarias, Andalucía and Galicia.

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The greatest improvements in quality of life between 2025 and 2024 occurred in Comunidad de Madrid (with a 0.59 point rise) and Comunitat Valenciana (0.50).

If we analyse the nine dimensions separately, Comunidad Foral de Navarra stood out in Leisure and Social Relations, Surroundings and the Environment, and General Life Experience. País Vasco stood out for Material Living Conditions and Education.

Meanwhile, Illes Balears stood out in Work and Health, Cantabria in Physical and Personal Safety, and Comunitat Valenciana in Governance and Basic Rights

Revision and updating of data

The results published in previous years may undergo alterations due to the methodology of the statistics. A standardisation process has been applied to compiling the indices whereby the values have been re-scaled to obtain comparable ranges across the different indicators. The entire time series is taken into account for this standardisation, taking the maximum and minimum value of each indicator across all the Autonomous Communities and periods considered. This process is also carried out independently for each of the new breakdowns by sex, education level and nationality, taking into account the maximum and minimum values corresponding to the different population groups and periods within each breakdown. Therefore, adding data for a new year may affect the indices for the entire time series. Moreover, some indicators of the series may be revised if there has been an update.

All results of this operation are available on INEBase.

Methodological note

The MQLI consists of the construction, on an experimental basis, of an indicator to consolidate information from the INE's Quality of Life Indicators (QLI). These indicators offer a panoramic (multidimensional) overview of the quality of life in Spain.

The MQLI is calculated nationally and by Autonomous Community. The process of aggregating individual indicators for each autonomous community is carried out in two steps: first, the indicators that represent a dimension are aggregated into a single indicator of the dimension using the AMPI method. Secondly, these nine indicators are added in a single MQLI and this aggregation, by default, is done with all dimensions equally weighted; however, the user can interact with the system and choose a different weighting, giving more or less importance according to the user’s judgement to one or another aspect of the quality of life.

Altogether, 55 indicators are involved in the calculation of the indicators, although not all are updated annually. In this edition, eight of the nine dimensions have been updated.

Statistic type: Experimental, annual.

Population scope: the indicators come from various sources. They generally refer to the population resident in Spain.

Geographical scope: the entire national territory. Data are offered by autonomous communities.

Reference period: since this is a statistic that combines a multitude of sources, each of the indicators has a different reference period. The most current indicators, which are the majority, refer to the year 2025.

More information in the technical project.

INE statistics are produced in accordance with the Code of Good Practice for European Statistics. More information on Quality at INE and the Code of Best Practices .