IMMIGRATION
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SPAIN

Employment residence permits

First residence permits valid for at least three months for employment.

115K2025

Employment residence permits

Spain · observed years only

Data 2014–2025 · Source retrieved 17 Sept 2026

Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.

Eurostat

Published 11 Sept 2026 · Retrieved 17 Sept 2026

Source period: 2014-01-012025-12-31

Release schedule: Annual; revisions checked weekly.

Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.

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PeriodPopulation / groupValueSource flags
2014ES42,873
2015ES41,566
2016ES38,154
2017ES42,672
2018ES58,433
2019ES63,267
2020ES81,158
2021ES88,119
2022ES140,034
2023ES128,844
2024ES95,735
2025ES115,040

What this measures

Third-country nationals; all citizenships and permit durations of at least three months

Calculation

Published official count; no calculation.

Limitations

First residence permits for third-country nationals valid for at least three months. A first permit can follow a gap of at least six months from a previous permit. Not unique arrivals, visas, citizenship or the foreign-born population. Free movement is outside this measure. Original Eurostat status flags are preserved for each observation: b = break, e = estimate, p = provisional, d = differing definition. No interpolation. Release update date is used as the publication date.

Birthplace, citizenship, migration flows, permits and asylum applicants measure different populations. A b flag breaks the time series; growth is suppressed across breaks. All ages use the source age definition; duplicate all-age definitions must agree.

Data 2014–2025 · Source retrieved 17 Sept 2026

Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.

Eurostat

Published 11 Sept 2026 · Retrieved 17 Sept 2026

Source period: 2014-01-012025-12-31

Release schedule: Annual; revisions checked weekly.

Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.

How updates are checked →
Eurostat

First permits by reason, length of validity and citizenship (migr_resfirst)

Original source ↗ · Retrieved 2026-09-17