Persons employed, retail trade (Spain) in Spain

Persons employed, retail trade (Spain) in Spain was 1.75 million in 2024, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística. That is up 3.2% from 2023.

2024, persons1,747,719

Change on 2023+3.2%

Series high1,750,5892019

Series low1,679,8652021

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Persons employed, retail trade (Spain) in Spain, 2018 to 2024

persons. Source: INE, Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por menor (CNAE 47), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817). Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2026-04-08.

All 7 values

Period	persons
2024	1,747,719
2023	1,694,027
2022	1,698,387
2021	1,679,865
2020	1,701,672
2019	1,750,589
2018	1,733,179

Definition

Persons employed (personal ocupado: paid staff plus working owners, partners and unpaid family members, full or part time) in the local units of enterprises whose main activity is retail trade (CNAE 2009 division 47), by the comunidad where each local unit is located, from the regional results of the INE structural business statistics for the trade sector (Estadística Estructural de Empresas: Sector Comercio).

Spain only: the country and the 17 comunidades autónomas from 2018, plus Ceuta and Melilla for the sector as a whole. These are INE regional results: each local unit counts where it is located, and figures are not consolidated within enterprise groups, so the Spain total is higher than the national results INE headlines (trade turnover in 2024: EUR 1,068,257 million here, 1,044,477 million in the national results). A sample survey, so small regions can move a lot from one year to the next. Published about 15 months after the reference year.

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por menor (CNAE 47), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817). https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (2026). Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por menor (CNAE 47), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817) (Persons employed, retail trade (Spain), Spain, 2018 to 2024) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817

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Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por menor (CNAE 47), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817), Persons employed, retail trade (Spain), Spain, 2018 to 2024. Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 8 Apr. 2026, https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/persons-employed-retail-spain/spain. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2026. Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por menor (CNAE 47), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817). Persons employed, retail trade (Spain), Spain, 2018 to 2024. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/persons-employed-retail-spain/spain.

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística (2026) Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por menor (CNAE 47), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817), Persons employed, retail trade (Spain), Spain, 2018 to 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/persons-employed-retail-spain/spain (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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@misc{instituto_persons_employed_retail_trade_2024,
  author = {{Instituto Nacional de Estadística}},
  title = {{Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por menor (CNAE 47), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817): Persons employed, retail trade (Spain), Spain, 2018 to 2024}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/persons-employed-retail-spain/spain. Publisher attribution: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por menor (CNAE 47), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817). https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

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What is the persons employed, retail trade (Spain) in Spain?

Persons employed, retail trade (Spain) in Spain was 1.75 million in 2024, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística. That is up 3.2% from 2023.

Where does this figure come from?

Instituto Nacional de Estadística. Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por menor (CNAE 47), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817). Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

What was the highest persons employed, retail trade (Spain) in Spain?

1.75 million in 2019, the highest value since 2018 in this series.

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