Elections · resolves 29 Nov 2026
Will the 2023 investiture bloc win a majority in Spain's 2026 election?
2%chance, our model
a monarch.
population: National quarterly estimate (1 Apr 2026) · indicators as of 5 Sep 2026 · 104 metros tracked
Spain metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Select a metro for its rank and a link to its page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
19 entries listed under Spain across 2 types. Select any to see its metros and footprint.
Facts via Wikidata.
Spanish first; 3 languages share the country; 1 official.
| Language | Share | Status | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 99% | Official | CLDR, country |
| English | 24% | None | CLDR, country |
| Catalan | 17% | Regional | CLDR, country |
| Galician | 7% | Regional | CLDR, country |
| French | 2.1% | None | Survey, home language |
| Basque | 2% | Regional | CLDR, country |
Shares count first and second language, so they overlap and can add past 100%.
SportBusiness · 31 Oct 2026
LaLiga bids to de-escalate China-Mbappé spatCCTV's parent suspended LaLiga broadcasts after Kylian Mbappé joked about a Mao Zedong meme.
El País · 30 Oct 2026
Catástrofes inasumiblesSpain's second deadly train crash this year killed 68 people a month before an election.
The Athletic · 30 Oct 2026
Why Kylian Mbappé angered ChinaChina Media Group suspended LaLiga broadcasts after Mbappé's remark about a meme of Mao Zedong.
SportBusiness · 29 Oct 2026
Valencia secures vital funding in 42% stake saleA KKR-founder-backed consortium bought 42% of Valencia at a €1.25 billion valuation.
INDYCAR · 28 Oct 2026
Grand Prix of Barcelona coming in 2027IndyCar will race in Barcelona in July 2027, its first event outside North America since 2013.
ESPN · 22 Oct 2026
Netflix buys 2030 World Cup broadcast rights in SpainNetflix bought Spain's broadcast rights to the 2030 World Cup.
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
Our forecasts, frozen before the result and scored after it.
Elections · resolves 29 Nov 2026
2%chance, our model
Elections · resolves 29 Nov 2026
0%chance, our model
Elections · resolves 29 Nov 2026
84%chance, our model
Elections · resolves 29 Nov 2026
97%chance, our model
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is an editorial flag: associated with atrocities against civilians, systemic subversion of the constitutional order, or a criminal conviction (political persecutions and annulled convictions excluded). It is a curated list, not a measurement, so a name without one has not been cleared of anything. Hover a badge for the reason on file. marks a monarch.
Elections
Every general election since 1867 →
The turno pacífico stated plainly, the Second Republic, and the democratic era since 1977.
Constitution
Written 1978 →
3 amendment events since, the last in 2024. Compare it with every other country.
Spectrum →
Executive 3.9 (expert)
Legislature 5.7 mean, 2.1 spread · parliamentary
The power line is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.” Figures marked “COW battle deaths” are Correlates of War battle-death counts, which run lower than total deaths.
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Spain: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.
Spain on the international stage. Select a card for the full record.
Every major championship won by Spain's national teams, newest first. 12 in total.
| Year | Date | Champion | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026-07-19 | Spain | World Cup |
| 2024 | 2024-07-14 | Spain | European Championship |
| 2023 | 2023-08-20 | Spain | FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 2019 | 2019-09-15 | Spain | FIBA World Cup |
| 2013 | 2013-01-27 | Spain | IHF World Championship |
| 2012 | 2012-07-01 | Spain | European Championship |
| 2012 | 2012-07-01 | Spain | International Treble |
| 2010 | 2010-07-11 | Spain | World Cup |
| 2008 | 2008-06-29 | Spain | European Championship |
| 2006 | 2006-09-03 | Spain | FIBA World Championship |
| 2005 | 2005-02-06 | Spain | IHF World Championship |
| 1964 | 1964-06-21 | Spain | European Championship |
Domestic league portals that operate in Spain: 3 leagues.