INE- National Statistics Institute. Spain

Year 2024. In 2024, 30.9% of the employed persons worked in companies with fewer than 10 workers, four tenths less than the previous year. 15.8% of those employed did so in companies with 50 to 249 workers, the same percentage as in 2023.

Year 2023. The number of hospital discharges increased by 2.4% in 2023. For the first time since 2016, digestive system diseases were the most common cause of hospitalization in Spain.

February 2025. Provisional data. The annual rate of the General Retail Trade Index at constant prices stood at 3.6% in the seasonal and calendar adjusted series. The monthly variation in retail sales at constant prices was 1.3% after seasonal and calendar adjustment. Employment in retail trade increased by 1.3% in annual rate.

Year 2024. The percentage of children under three years of age attending childcare centers reached 54.5% in 2024, compared to 39.5% in 2016. In 39.2% of cases, care was free for the household, a percentage 19.4 points higher than in 2016. 37.1% of households with dependents requiring home care did not have this need covered, 6.3 points more than in 2016.

Year 2024. 4.5% of households with children under 16 could not afford new clothes for them, two percentage points less than in 2014. 2.2% of households with children under 16 reported not being able to afford to eat fruit or vegetables daily.

Fourth Quarter 2024. In terms of volume, the GDP registered a variation of 0.8% in the fourth compared with the previous quarter. This rate was similar to that of the third quarter. Year-on-year GDP variation was 3.4%, compared to 3.3% in the previous quarter. Domestic demand contributed by 3.6 points and external demand by -0.2 points.