Spain
Kingdom of Spain
- Region
- Europe · Southern Europe
- Capital
- Madrid
- Population
- 49,355,143 (2025)
- Government
- parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Official languages
- Spanish
- Spoken languages
- Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan (official in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community) 17%, Galician (official in Galicia) 7%
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 505,992 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- EU, IMF, NATO, OECD, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Andorra , France , Gibraltar , Portugal , Morocco
Political stability
66 / 100
Economic stability
72 / 100
Population stability
71 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- cars, packaged medicine, refined petroleum, vehicle parts/accessories, garments (2023)
- Key imports
- crude petroleum, cars, garments, vehicle parts/accessories, natural gas (2023)
- Natural resources
- coal, lignite, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, uranium, tungsten, mercury, pyrites, magnesite, fluorspar
- Luxury goods
- premium wine, olive oil, ibérico ham
- Primary route
- Algeciras and Valencia transshipment on Asia–Europe lanes
- Secondary route
- Transatlantic and Latin America services
The xin.bz view
- Spain enters El Niño as two water markets: the south with a stronger reservoir position after earlier rainfall, the north still drought-exposed — agriculture, vineyards, hydropower, and municipal supply respond basin by basin.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Arriving as Western Europe Rebuilds Its Water Reserves — While Energy and Arctic Trade Reprice the Atlantic Economy
The Rhine recovering from record lows, England 71% in drought, French crops down hard, Qatar's LNG collapse pushing Europe to U.S. gas, and Iceland and Greenland turning the Atlantic into Western Europe's organizing system.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.