Spain: opinion on the country's main problem 2025| ��ƽ��

Public opinion on the main problem currently affecting Spain as of December 2025

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Housing	39.9%
Economic problems	21.8%
Political issues in general	19.1%
Immigration	16.3%
Corruption and fraud	16.2%
Problems related to quality of employment	14.5%
Government and specific parties or politicians	13.9%
Politicians' misbehavior	13.8%
Unemployment	13.4%
Healthcare	13.2%
Youth-related issues	8.7%
Extremism	6.8%
Inequalities, including gender, class differences, poverty, social and economic	6.1%
What political parties do	6.1%
Insecurity	5.4%
Education	5.4%
Crisis of values	4.3%
Social issues	3.9%
Climate change	3.6%
Operation of public services	3%

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December 2025

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Region

Spain

Survey time period

December 1 to December 5, 2025

Number of respondents

4,017 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Telephone interview

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As of December 2025, roughly 39,9 percent of the Spanish population believed that Spain's main current problem is related to the political issues. Unemployment, which was reported as the largest worrying factor in 2024, emerged as the ninth biggest problem in the country for the Spaniards, at approximately 13,4 percent.

Spanish economy

In 2024, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Spain was 1,591 billion euros. Spain suffered a steep decrease in its GDP during the COVID-19 pandemic when its value dropped 0.128 billion euros from 2019 to 2020. However, since then the value has been in constant growth. In 2021, the expenditure of Spanish households on consumption represented approximately 55 percent of the GPD.

Unemployment in Spain

Spain was the country with the highest unemployment rate in the European Union in July 2025. This economic problem impacts mostly the Spanish youth with around 41 percent of the population aged between 16 and 19 years being unemployed, followed by nearly 23 percent of Spanish citizens in the age group of 20 to 24 years. As of the fourth quarter of 2023, there were over 2.83 million people unemployed in the country.