Ranked lists of Spanish autonomous communities

This article includes several ranked indicators for Spain's 17 autonomous communities, as well as for the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

Autonomous community/city	Population (2024)[1]	Area (km2)	Density (people/km2)	Coastline length (km)
Andalusia	8,631,862	87,599	98.6	945
Aragon	1,351,591	47,720	28.2	0
Asturias	1,009,599	10,604	95.2	401
Balearic Islands	1,231,768	4,992	248.2	1,428
Basque Country	2,227,684	7,234	308.7	246
Canary Islands	2,238,754	7,447	301.8	1,583
Cantabria	590,851	5,321	111.1	284
Castile and León	2,391,682	94,224	25.3	0
Castile-La Mancha	2,104,433	79,461	26.5	0
Catalonia	8,012,231	32,113	251.2	699
Ceuta	83,179	20	4,167.0	26
Extremadura	1,054,681	41,634	25.2	0
Galicia	2,705,833	29,575	91.5	1,498
La Rioja	324,184	5,045	64.4	0
Community of Madrid	7,009,268	8,028	878.9	0
Melilla	85,985	12	7,194.3	12
Region of Murcia	1,568,492	11,314	139.3	274
Navarre	678,333	10,391	65.4	0
Valencian Community	5,319,285	23,255	230.5	518
Spain	48,619,695	505,970	96.4	7,914

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The following table shows the difference in average income for each of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain. The data was provided by the INE.

Rank	Autonomous community	Average income (€) 2023[2]
1	Community of Madrid	42,198
2	Basque Country	40,600
3	Navarre	37,088
4	Catalonia	35,325
5	Aragon	34,658
6	Balearic Islands	34,381
7	La Rioja	32,828
8	Castile and León	29,698
9	Galicia	28,644
10	Cantabria	28,461
11	Asturias	28,130
12	Valencian Community	26,453
13	Region of Murcia	25,887
14	Castilla-La Mancha	25,758
15	Canary Islands	24,345
16	Extremadura	23,604
17	Andalusia	23,218
Spain		32,630

The list below shows all of the autonomous communities and two autonomous cities of Spain. The list shown is from 2023 (provisional data) and is in euros. The nominal GDP in Spain in 2023 was 1.5 trillion euros.^[3]

2023

Autonomous community	GDP in billions €[3]	Percentage of GDP
Andalusia	199.9	13.3%
Aragon	46.7	3.1%
Asturias	28.3	1.9%
Balearic Islands	42.1	2.8%
Basque Country	87.9	5.9%
Canary Islands	54.2	3.6%
Cantabria	16.8	1.1%
Castile and León	70.9	4.7%
Castilla–La Mancha	53.9	3.6%
Catalonia	281.8	18.8%
Extremadura	24.9	1.7%
Galicia	77.4	5.2%
Madrid	293.0	19.6%
Murcia	40.4	2.7%
Navarre	25.0	1.7%
La Rioja	10.6	0.7%
Valencian Community	139.4	9.3%
Ceuta	1.9	0.1%
Melilla	1.8	0.1%

Autonomous community	GDP per capita in €[4]	Year
European Union	37,610 [citation needed]	2023
Spain	30,968	2023
Andalusia	23,218	2023
Aragon	34,658	2023
Asturias	28,130	2023
Balearic Islands	34,381	2023
Basque Country	39,547	2023
Canary Islands	24,345	2023
Cantabria	28,461	2023
Castile and León	29,698	2023
Castilla–La Mancha	25,758	2023
Catalonia	35,325	2023
Extremadura	23,604	2023
Galicia	28,644	2023
Madrid	42,198	2023
Murcia	25,887	2023
Navarre	37,088	2023
La Rioja	32,828	2023
Valencian Community	26,453	2023
Ceuta	22,751	2023
Melilla	20,479	2023

This is a list of Spain's 17 autonomous communities and the 2 autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla by their Human Development Index as of 2024 with data for the year 2022.^[5]

Autonomous community	HDI (2022)
Very high human development
Spain (average)	0.911
Andalusia	0.881
Aragon	0.915
Asturias	0.906
Balearic Islands	0.879
Basque Country	0.939
Canary Islands	0.876
Cantabria	0.910
Castile and León	0.912
Castilla–La Mancha	0.876
Catalonia	0.922
Extremadura	0.876
Galicia	0.910
Madrid	0.942
Region of Murcia	0.885
Navarre	0.928
La Rioja	0.916
Valencian Community	0.897
Ceuta	0.860
Melilla	0.867

• Ranked lists of Spanish provinces
• Ranked lists of Spanish municipalities
• List of countries by Human Development Index

• National Institute of Statistics (Spain)