Basic Data

Catalonia in numbers

  • 7,448,000
    population
  • 32,107 km²
    area
  • 15,580,362 (2013)
    foreign tourists
Capital Barcelona
Area 32,107 km2 (ranks between Belgium and The Netherlands)
Population 7,555,830 (ranks between Denmark and Austria)
Density 232.0 / km2 (EU-28: 117)
Immigrants 14.5% (2014) (main international communities: Morocco, Romania, Ecuador, Italy, China, Bolivia, Pakistan)
Population born outside Catalonia 36% (2013)
Number of foreign tourists 15,580,362 (2013)
Official languages Catalan and Spanish; Occitan in the Aran Valley
GPD (billion €) 234,651 (between Finland and Denmark) (2017)
GPD per capita (€) 31,223 (EU-28: 30,000) (2017)
Economic sectors services 74.8%, industry 19.6%, construction 4.7%, agriculture 0.9%
Main industrial sectors chemistry, biotechnology, food, energy, metal and automotive
Exports (million €) 70,828 (25% of all Spanish exports; 65% of exports to the EU markets)
Imports (million €) 76,850
Index of globalization 61% (2012)
Foreign direct investment (FDI) € 4,064 million (annual average 2013-2017) (The 1st of the FDI Strategy list in ‘Large European regions of the future 2018/19, the Financial Times)
Unemployment index 11,39% (Q2 2018) (EU-28 August 2018: 6,8%)
People at risk of poverty or social exclusion 23,5%
Number of Universities 12
Scientific production 61% (2012)
Main scientific facilities ALBA Synchrotron (UAB), Supercomputing Center (UPC), and one of the largest genome sequencing centers (CNAG)
Households with Internet access 83% (EU-28: 83%)

Source: Government of Catalonia (all data are from 2016 unless otherwise indicated)