{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"es-median-income","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/es-median-income","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/es-median-income/","title":"Median Equivalised Net Income in Spain (2025)","description":"Spain's Median Equivalised Net Income: 20,367 EUR per person in 2025, +5.5% YoY, approximately 89% of the EU-27 average. 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Equivalised income adjusts household disposable income for household size and composition using the modified OECD scale, so the figure represents typical per-person purchasing power rather than a raw household total."},{"question":"How does Spain's median income compare with the EU-27 average?","answer":"In 2025, Spain's median equivalised net income of roughly 20,367 EUR was about 88.8% of the EU-27 average of approximately 22,939 EUR, leaving an absolute gap of around 2,572 EUR. That is a wider gap than in 2010, when Spain's 14,605 EUR was actually slightly above the EU-27's 14,521 EUR — the two lines have not been close since."},{"question":"How much has Spain's median income grown since 2010?","answer":"Spain's median equivalised net income rose from about 14,605 EUR in 2010 to approximately 20,367 EUR in 2025 — a cumulative gain of roughly 39.5% over 15 years. The EU-27 average grew faster over the same period, from roughly 14,521 EUR to about 22,939 EUR (+58.0%), which is the main reason Spain's relative position has typically stayed below the EU average since around 2011 rather than converging toward it."},{"question":"How did the eurozone debt crisis affect Spain's median income?","answer":"Spain's median income fell in all four years from 2011 to 2014, dropping from 14,605 EUR in 2010 to a series low of 13,269 EUR in 2014 — a decline of roughly 9.1%. Over the same stretch Spain's position relative to the EU-27 average slid from about 101% in 2010 to around 88% in 2014, reflecting the wage cuts, high unemployment, and fiscal austerity that characterised Spain's crisis-era labour market."},{"question":"Has Spain been closing the income gap with the EU average, or falling further behind?","answer":"Neither consistently — Spain's income has typically held in a fairly narrow band of about 86% to 90% of the EU-27 average every year since 2014, without a clear convergence or divergence trend. The ratio touched a post-crisis high of roughly 90.3% in 2023 before easing back to about 88.8% in 2025, suggesting Spain's recent income growth (+5.4% in 2024, +5.5% in 2025) has broadly tracked, rather than outpaced, the EU-27 average."}]}