- Trade topics
- Trade and jobs
- EU exporter
- Spain
Spanish companies’ exports outside the EU are worth €191 billion in 2019. And this keeps 2.4 million Spanish workers busy.
- Spanish extra-EU exports support 2.1 million jobs in Spain.
- Another 299,000 Spanish workers are in jobs linked to exports from other EU countries to the world.
- This means 12% of jobs in Spain depend on extra-EU exports.
- Spanish extra-EU exports also support over 309,000 jobs in EU countries.
- In Spain, most people in export-related jobs are high-skilled workers.
- 64% of export-related jobs in Spain are in services.
EU exports support 38 million jobs, up two thirds from 2000. More than 14 million of these workers are women. One in five jobs in the EU depends on exports.
EU exports support a significant share of jobs in all countries across the EU.
