• Workforce of 23.1 million people (Source: INE, Q4 2008)
• Highly educated, Spain holds the 9th position among OECD countries in students of tertiary education.

*Tertiary education: college and non-college students

Source: Eurostat 2009

• Spain has a highly skilled labor force. Spain ranks 4th in Europe in terms of the number of persons with a scientific/technical tertiary education, just behind Germany, France and the UK, countries with a much higher population. Therefore, the ratio related to population is higher in Spain.

Source: Eurostat, 2009

• Multicultural, with a growing immigrant population
  
• One of the highest scores in Europe for employment retention and business process outsourcing according to A.T. Kearney

(Scale of 1 to 3) that evaluates cumulative business experience and skills, size and availability of labor force, education, language and employee retention

Source: AT Kearney Global Services location Index 2009

Last updated: 15|06|2009