Population, Mid-Year 2019: 46,737,000
Projected Population Mid-Year 2030: 46,230,000
Percentage of Population Under Age 25 Years, Mid-Year 2019: 24%
Percentage of Population 65 Years Or Over, Mid-Year 2019: 20%

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019: Data Booklet (ST/ESA/SER.A/424).

Percent of Adults Aged 65 and Over Receiving Long-Term Care (2017): 9.8%
Percent of Adults Aged 65 Years and Over Reporting To Be In Fair, Bad, or Very Bad Health (2017): 56.8%
People With Dementia Per 1,000 Population (2019): 20.2%
Projected Number of People With Dementia Per 1,000 Population in 2050: 41.8%
Long-Term Care Workers Per 100 People Aged 65 And Over (2016): 4.5
Long-Term Care Beds In Institutions and Hospitals Per 1,000 Population Aged 65 And Over (2017): 46.8
Long-Term Care Expenditure (Health and Social Components) By Government and Compulsory Insurance Schemes, as a Share of GDP (%) (2017): 0.7%

Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en.

“In 2015, Spain had a population of more than 46 million people, of whom 18.6% were age 65 or older (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2016a). In 2050, that percentage will reach 35.3% (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2016b). The aging of the Spanish population presents a number of public policy challenges, including the formidable task of managing the healthcare and social needs of an increasingly larger older population in the context of a publicly-funded health system and difficult economic times (Mato, 2014; Serrano, Latorre, & Gatz, 2014).”

Source: Angel Rodriguez-Laso, PhD, MD, MSc, Sara J McLaughlin, PhD, Elena Urdaneta, PhD, Javier Yanguas, PhD, Defining and Estimating Healthy Aging in Spain: A Cross-sectional Study, The Gerontologist, Volume 58, Issue 2, April 2018, Pages 388–398, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnw266

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Page last updated Nov. 21, 2021 by Doug McVay, Editor.