World population/Spain
Europe
Population of Spain
47,850,792
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#34
world rank
0.58%
of world population
-0.10%
yearly change
-48,523
people this year
327,412
births a year
460,476
deaths a year
How the figure for Spain is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Spain at 47,850,792 on 1 July 2026, and projects 47,802,269 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people lost every second.
That places Spain at number 34 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.58 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 327,412 births and 460,476 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.