Spain has a long history of Islamic tradition under its belt. From cuisine to architecture, the southern European country has been linked to the North of Africa through many common elements. At the end of 2023, there were approximately 2.41 million Muslims in Spain, most of them of Spanish and Moroccan nationality, with upwards of eight hundred thousand believers in both cases. With a Muslim population of more than 660,000 people, Catalonia was home to the largest Muslim community in Spain as of the same date.

The not so Catholic Spain

Believers of a religion other than Catholicism accounted for approximately 3 percent of the Spanish population, according to the most recent data. Although traditionally a Catholic country, Spain saw a decline in the number of believers over the past years. Compared to previous years, when the share of believers accounted for slightly over 70 percent of the Spanish population, the Catholic community lost ground, while still being the major religion for the foreseable future.

A Catholic majority, a practicing minority

Going to mass is no longer a thing in Spain, or so it would seem when looking at the latest statistics about the matter: 50 percent of those who consider themselves Catholics almost never attend any religious service in 2024. The numbers increased until 2019, from 55.5 percent of the population never attending religious services in 2011 to 63.1 percent in 2019. The share of population that stated to be practicing believers and go to mass every Sunday and on the most important holidays accounted for only 15.5 percent.

In 2023, Catalonia ranked as the Spanish autonomous community with the highest number of Muslims with more than *******. It was followed by Andalusia with approximately *******.

The Islamic necropolis discovered in Tauste (Zaragoza, Spain) is the only evidence that a large Muslim community lived in the area between the 8th and 10th centuries. A multi-isotope approach has been used to investigate the mobility and diet of this medieval Muslim population living in a shifting frontier region. Thirty-one individuals were analyzed to determine δ15N, δ13C, δ18O and 87Sr/86Sr composition. A combination of strontium and oxygen isotope analysis indicated that most individuals were of local origin although three females and two males were non-local. The non-local males would be from a warmer zone whereas two of the females would be from a more mountainous geographical region and the third from a geologically-different area. The extremely high δ15N baseline at Tauste was due to bedrock composition (gypsum and salt). High individual δ15N values were related to the manuring effect and consumption of fish. Adult males were the most privileged members of society in the medieval Muslim world and, as isotope data reflected, consumed more animal proteins than females and young males.

In 2023, Andalusia featured more than ******* foreign Muslims and approximately ******* Spanish Muslims, which represented the third highest amount of Spanish Muslims and the second highest of foreign Muslims. Catalonia featured the highest number for both foreign and national Muslims that year.

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In 2023, there were over than ******* Muslims with Spanish nationality in the Community of Madrid, followed by Muslims with Moroccan nationality with figures of about ***** individuals.

In the school year 2023/2024, Spain had *** Muslim teachers hired. In that year, Andalusia was the community with the highest number of Muslim teachers hired with ** teachers, followed by Murcia with ** teachers.

In 2023, there were more than ******* Muslims with Spanish nationality in the Region of Valencia, followed by Muslims with Moroccan nationality with figures that reached over ****** individuals.

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In 2023, Catalonia was the Spanish community with the highest number of Muslim entities, with a total of 389 institutions. It was followed by Andalusia with 335 institutions.

Catholicism was the main religion in Spain as of 2022, with a total of **** million adherents. Islam followed second, with *** followers. Catalonia was the autonomous community with the largest number of Muslims in Spain.

This statistic shows the estimated number of Muslims living in different European countries as of 2016. Approximately **** million Muslims were estimated to live in France, the most of any country listed. Germany and the United Kingdom also have large muslim populations with **** million and **** million respectively.

In 2022, around ** percent of Muslims surveyed said they had already been the victim of religious discrimination in Spain. Followers of the Jewish religion were the second most likely to report discrimination, with around ** percent.

In 2023, there were around ******* Muslims with Moroccan nationality in the autonomous community of Catalonia, only behind Muslims with Spanish nationality with figures that exceeded ******* individuals.

In 2023, there were almost ****** Muslims with Moroccan nationality in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, followed by Muslims with Spanish nationality with figures of about ****** individuals.

In 2023, there were a total of approximately ******* Muslims in Andalusia, more than ****** of them with Spanish nationality. And ******* had Moroccan nationality, the second most common nationality of Muslims in the autonomous community.

This statistic presents the share of the Spanish population affiliated with a religious denomination in 2018, broken down by origin of the person. To that date, about ** percent of people born in Spain were affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, whereas only ** percent of those abroad were followers of this denomination. It is worth noting that Islam represented about ** percent of the population born abroad and almost ** percent had no affiliation.

This statistic presents the number of Muslims in the Balearic Islands in 2019, broken down by nationality. That year, there were almost ** thousand Muslims with Moroccan nationality, followed by Muslims with Spanish nationality, with figures that reached over ** thousand individuals.

This statistic presents the number of Muslims in Aragon in 2019, broken down by nationality. That year, there were more than ** thousand Muslims with Spanish nationality in this autonomous community, followed by Muslims with a Moroccan nationality, with figures that exceeded ** thousand individuals.