As of January 2025, Andalusia was the most populated autonomous community in Spain, with a total amount of approximately 8.6 million inhabitants. Catalonia and Madrid followed closely, with populations amounting to approximately eight million and seven million respectively. The population in Spain has also been analyzed by gender and autonomous community.

This dataset shows all 50 provinces in Spain, which correspond to second-level administrative divisions currently used in said country.

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Column Description

• Province: Name of the province
• Official name: Name of the province in local language
• Capital: Capital city of the province
• Community: Autonomous community the province belongs to
• Map: Map of the province within the country and community it belongs to
• Population (2023): Population of the province as of 2023
• Area (squared km): Total land area of the province
• Population density (people per sq. km): Population per square kilometer

With over ************* inhabitants, Madrid ranked as the most populated province in Spain as of 2025. In the second place was Barcelona, with a population of almost *********** people. Only ** out of the ** Spanish provinces had over a million inhabitants at that time.

Continuous Register Statistics: Population (Spanish/foreigners) by age (year to year) and sex. Annual. Provinces.

Andalusia, with a total number of 8.6 million inhabitants, ranked first on the list of most populous autonomous communities in Spain as of January 1st, 2025. The least populated regions of Spain were the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, both with a population of under 90,000 inhabitants that year. The population of Spain has been increasing for many years after experiencing a downward trend between 2012 and 2015, and is projected to grow by nearly half a million by 2027. The population of Spain is dying more than being born Spain has one of the lowest fertility rate in the European Union, with barely 1.29 children per woman. According to the most recent data, more people died in Spain than were being born in 2023, with figures reaching over 434,000 deaths versus 320,000 newborns. Immigration countered this trend One of the key points to balance out this population downtrend in Spain is immigration. Spain’s immigration figures finally started to pick up in 2015 after a downward trend that presumably initiated after the 2008 financial crisis. Nevertheless, Spaniards still migrate is much larger numbers than before the crisis. According to the latest data, nationals aged between 25 and 34 years represented the largest bulk of emigrants.

Population Projections: Population residing in Spain on January 1, by place of birth and year. Annual. Provinces.

The province in which the Catalan capital, Barcelona, is located has experienced a significant increase in population since 1996. In January 2023, the inhabitants of the province of Barcelona amounted to nearly *** million, which is also the highest figure registered during the period under consideration.

Official population figures of the Spanish Municipalities: Revision of the Municipal Register: Population by province and sex. Annual. Provinces.

IntroductionWe use Spanish data from August 2020 to March 2021 as a natural experiment to analyze how a standardized measure of COVID-19 growth correlates with asymmetric meteorological and mobility situations in 48 Spanish provinces. The period of time is selected prior to vaccination so that the level of susceptibility was high, and during geographically asymmetric implementation of non-pharmacological interventions.MethodsWe develop reliable aggregated mobility data from different public sources and also compute the average meteorological time series of temperature, dew point, and UV radiance in each Spanish province from satellite data. We perform a dimensionality reduction of the data using principal component analysis and investigate univariate and multivariate correlations of mobility and meteorological data with COVID-19 growth.ResultsWe find significant, but generally weak, univariate correlations for weekday aggregated mobility in some, but not all, provinces. On the other hand, principal component analysis shows that the different mobility time series can be properly reduced to three time series. A multivariate time-lagged canonical correlation analysis of the COVID-19 growth rate with these three time series reveals a highly significant correlation, with a median R-squared of 0.65. The univariate correlation between meteorological data and COVID-19 growth is generally not significant, but adding its two main principal components to the mobility multivariate analysis increases correlations significantly, reaching correlation coefficients between 0.6 and 0.98 in all provinces with a median R-squared of 0.85. This result is robust to different approaches in the reduction of dimensionality of the data series.DiscussionOur results suggest an important effect of mobility on COVID-19 cases growth rate. This effect is generally not observed for meteorological variables, although in some Spanish provinces it can become relevant. The correlation between mobility and growth rate is maximal at a time delay of 2-3 weeks, which agrees well with the expected 5?10 day delays between infection, development of symptoms, and the detection/report of the case.

As of January 2024, the Spanish-born population accounted for more than 42 million out of the national total. Foreign-born residents grew during the analyzed period of time, with over 6.5 million in 2023, while between 2014 and 2018 they amounted to less than five million. The population in Spain has also been analyzed by autonomous community, with Andalusia topping the list of the most populated regions.

Table of INEBase Population by year of arrival in Spain, year of arrival in the province, sex, age (big groups) and country of birth (Spain/foreign). Annual. Provinces. Censo de Población

Dataset

This dataset was created by Francisco Aguilera

Contents

Table of INEBase Population aged 16 and over by year of arrival in Spain, year of arrival in the province, sex, country of birth (Spain/foreign) and relationship with the activity. Annual. Provinces. Censo de Población

Censo de Población: Population by year of arrival in Spain (aggregate) and sex. Annual. Municipalities.

This horizontal bar chart displays female population (people) by region using the aggregation sum in Spain. The data is about countries per year.

The distribution of the population at risk of poverty in Spain reveals a disparity between the Northern and Southern regions. The poverty rate of all Northern regions is below the national average of **** percent. In contrast, Andalusia, Extremadura, and the autonomous cities of Melilla and Ceuta had the highest percentage of population, exceeding ** percent, at risk of poverty.

Table of INEBase Variation in the population by provinces. Annual. Official population figures of the Spanish Municipalities: Revision of the Municipal Register

Table of INEBase Population aged 15 and over by year of arrival in Spain and year of arrival in the province, sex, age group, country of birth (Spain/foreign) and level of studies (aggregate). Annual. Provinces. Censo de Población

This horizontal bar chart displays rural population (people) by region using the aggregation sum in Spain. The data is about countries per year.

In 2023, Asturias, Castilla and León, and Galicia were the Autonomous Communities that reported more than a quarter of their population aged 65 or over. The regions with the lowest reported percentage of elderly people were the Autonomous Communities of Ceuta and Melilla, with **** and **** percent, respectively.