US EditionSpain's Economy Far Outgrows Peers with 2.8% Expansion in 2025
Domestic demand, driven by household consumption and investment, offset weak exports; job creation rose 2.8%, making Spain the fastest-growing major eurozone economy in 2025.
- Spain posted estimated 2.8% growth in 2025 after a Q4 surge that saw GDP rise 0.8% quarter-on-quarter and 2.6% year-on-year, National Statistics Institute data showed on Jan 30.
- Sustained domestic demand drove Spain's growth, with household consumption and investment contributing nearly a full percentage point and full-time equivalent jobs rising 2.8% year-on-year.
- Despite sectoral strength, the external sector shaved two-tenths of a percentage point off growth as international tariffs impacted exports and imports.
- Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said Spain is the 'engine of the continent', growing at over double the eurozone average projected at 1.3%.
- Despite outpacing neighbours, analysts cautioned Spain's 2.8% growth slowed from 2024's 3.2%, with France at 0.9%, Italy 0.4%, Germany 0.2%, and reliance on domestic factors a 'warning sign', Javier Molina said.
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The Spanish economy grew by 2.8% in 2025, seven tenths less than in 2024, after accelerating its growth in the last quarter of the year to 0.8%.
The Spanish economy closed 2025 with a growth of 2.8%, according to the National Accounting data published this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). The gross domestic product (GDP) advanced by 0.8% in the last quarter of the year, the highest quarterly rate of the whole year, which pushed the final figure to 2.8%. The figure supposes, however, a tenth less than expected.
In a year marked by geopolitical tensions and the war on tariffs, the Spanish economy managed to maintain its dynamism and to emerge among the most advanced on the planet. GDP grew by 2.8% throughout the year, after accelerating in the final stretch of the year and advancing by 0.8%, two tenths more than in the previous quarter. Household consumption, in a context in which the labour market set record figures, and the investment of companies, fa…
GDP rose by 0.8% in the fourth quarter, the highest inter-quarterly growth rate of the year, driven by strong household consumption and the strength of the labour market. Spain was the advanced economy that grew the most for the second consecutive year.
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