Economic Statistics - unemployment, inflation, etc..

The Economy

The Spanish economy has been up and down over the past decade. At one time the growth of Spain seemed to be an economic miracle, until it became clear that rising house prices would finally price out the only people still homeless, in the main the very people who were building the homes. With the credit crunch Spain suddenly appeared as one of the weakest countries in Europe. Here you can read more about the figures.
For a direct look at the figures you might also like to look at the government's new English language site The Spanish Economy.
You will notice that we are unable to maintain this page as regularly as we would like, but hope it will give you a reasonable overview of the situation.