The birth rate has reversed its recent decline. In 2025, Spain recorded 321,164 births, a 1% increase on the previous year.
Although modest, this marks the first rise in a decade and the highest figure since 2022, according to the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE)’s historical series.
The latest INE data show that births in Spain remain well below 2015 levels, when over 420,000 were recorded – a drop of around 24% compared with that year.
The agency also notes a shift in the age at which women become mothers. In 2025, births to mothers aged 40 or over accounted for 10.4% of the total, up from 7.8% a decade earlier. In contrast, the proportion of mothers under 25 fell from 38,141 in 2015 to 30,497 in 2025, representing 9.5% of all births.
The rise in births has not led to natural population growth. In 2025, Spain recorded 446,982 deaths, 2.5% more than in 2024, leaving a negative natural population growth of 122,167 people – the ninth consecutive year of decline. Since 2020, the first year of the pandemic, deaths have exceeded births by more than 110,000 annually.
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