Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Spain
Spain: Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day was 23.2% in 2023. ▼ Falling
Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Spain, 1980–2023
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
In 2023, poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Spain stood at 23.2%. That is the lowest value across all 32 years on record.
The figure is down 4.1% on the previous year and down 33.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Spain peaked at 78.6% in 1985 and was at its lowest, 23.2%, in 2023.
Spain ranks 97th of 120 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 32 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 77.8% | 77.1% | 78.6% | 2 |
| 1990s | 53.5% | 43.3% | 62.1% | 8 |
| 2000s | 31.2% | 24.3% | 39.8% | 8 |
| 2010s | 31.0% | 26.1% | 35.0% | 10 |
| 2020s | 24.9% | 23.2% | 27.3% | 4 |
Countries ranked near Spain
More poverty & inequality data for Spain
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 8 surveys (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 1.21 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 3,786 kg per hectare (2024)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 36.4% (2023)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.043 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 19.7% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.0694 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.0694 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.0868 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.1918 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Spain?
- Poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Spain was 23.2% in 2023, according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Spain?
- The highest recorded value was 78.6% in 1985.
- What is the lowest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Spain?
- The lowest recorded value was 23.2% in 2023.
- How does Spain rank for poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day?
- Spain ranks 97th out of 120 countries with data for 2023.
- Is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day rising or falling in Spain?
- Over the last ten years it is down 33.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Spain data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Percentage of population living in households with an income or consumption below $30 per day.