Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Spain

Poverty at the national line in Spain in 2022 — 20.2%. Ranked 24 in the world out of 52. Since 2003, the indicator has risen by 0.1 pp.

2022 20.2% −0.2 pp vs 2021
World rank 24of 52
Period maximum 22.3%2015
Period minimum 19.7%2006

Trend over time

2003–2022 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Spain, 2003–20221920212223200320052007200920112013201520172019202120222003: 20.1%2004: 20.1%2005: 20.3%2006: 19.7%2007: 19.8%2008: 20.4%2009: 20.7%2010: 20.6%2011: 20.8%2012: 20.4%2013: 22.2%2014: 22.1%2015: 22.3%2016: 21.6%2017: 21.5%2018: 20.7%2019: 21%2020: 21.7%2021: 20.4%2022: 20.2%
Change over the period: +0.1 pp Annual average: 0.01 pp
Poverty at the national line — Spain, by year Spain All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 20.2 −0.2 pp
2021 20.4 −1.3 pp
2020 21.7 +0.7 pp
2019 21 +0.3 pp
2018 20.7 −0.8 pp
2017 21.5 −0.1 pp
2016 21.6 −0.7 pp
2015 22.3 +0.2 pp
2014 22.1 −0.1 pp
2013 22.2 +1.8 pp
2012 20.4 −0.4 pp
2011 20.8 +0.2 pp
2010 20.6 −0.1 pp
2009 20.7 +0.3 pp
2008 20.4 +0.6 pp
2007 19.8 +0.1 pp
2006 19.7 −0.6 pp
2005 20.3 +0.2 pp
2004 20.1 +0 pp
2003 20.1

Southern Europe, 2022

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The share of the population below the national poverty line — the one a country has defined in its legislation or in the methodology of its statistical office. The indicator answers a question the international lines do not ask: how many people are poor by the standards of their own society. That is exactly why it is unfit for comparing countries with one another — yet it shows better than any other indicator how a country assesses poverty at home, and it is what the results of national policy are judged by.

Important: There are no aggregates for country groups, and this is not a gap: poverty lines differ between countries, and a sum of shares computed against different lines has no definition. For comparing countries there are the three international lines.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.