Provinces of Spain by live births

Name: Provinces of Spain by live births, 2017
Creator: Instituto Nacional de Estadística
License: INE reuse terms (attribution required)

Madrid province had the highest live births of 52 provinces in 2017, at 60,555. Soria province had the lowest, at 591. The median was 4,843 and the figure for Spain was 393,181. Source: the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Highest60,555Madrid province

Lowest591Soria province

Median4,84352 provinces

Spain393,181History

All provinces, 2017

CSV Chart (SVG)

count. Source: INE. Retrieved 2026-10-07.

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	2017 count	Change on 2016
1	Madrid province	60,555	-4.1%
2	Barcelona province	49,040	-3.2%
3	Valencia province	20,494	-5.3%
4	Seville province	17,884	-6%
5	Murcia province	15,088	-2.8%
6	Alicante province	15,039	-1.4%
7	Málaga province	14,422	-3.7%
8	Cádiz province	10,778	-8.8%
9	Balearic Islands province	10,288	-3.1%
10	Biscay province	8,522	-6.9%
11	Las Palmas province	8,244	-4%
12	Granada province	7,968	-7.7%
13	Zaragoza province	7,862	-3.5%
14	A Coruña province	7,745	-7.1%
15	Almería province	7,562	-3.2%
16	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	7,535	-0.5%
17	Girona province	7,022	-2.1%
18	Tarragona province	7,006	-3%
19	Pontevedra province	6,909	+1%
20	Córdoba province	6,497	-5.9%
21	Toledo province	6,033	-4.3%
22	Asturias province	6,012	-5.3%
23	Navarre province	5,746	-2.5%
24	Badajoz province	5,721	-2.7%
25	Gipuzkoa province	5,593	-7%
26	Jaén province	4,900	-8.4%
27	Castellón province	4,785	-6.2%
28	Huelva province	4,673	-1.3%
29	Cantabria province	4,118	-3%
30	Ciudad Real province	4,013	-5.8%
31	Lleida province	3,735	-2.7%
32	Valladolid province	3,675	-8.8%
33	Albacete province	3,219	-4.2%
34	Álava province	2,962	-3.6%
35	Cáceres province	2,774	-4.5%
36	León province	2,634	-8.2%
37	La Rioja province	2,566	-3.6%
38	Burgos province	2,453	-7.7%
39	Guadalajara province	2,192	-7.2%
40	Lugo province	2,082	-0.9%
41	Salamanca province	2,028	-9.4%
42	Huesca province	1,723	+0.1%
43	Ourense province	1,709	-4%
44	Cuenca province	1,407	-6.6%
45	Melilla province	1,342	-7.8%
46	Palencia province	1,076	+2.8%
46	Segovia province	1,076	-5.7%
48	Ávila province	1,072	-5.4%
49	Ceuta province	1,045	-1.4%
50	Teruel province	946	-10.7%
51	Zamora province	904	-3.1%
52	Soria province	591	-5.6%

Other periods

About this ranking

Live births to mothers resident in the area during the year.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the provinces are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). Movimiento natural de la población: nacimientos por residencia de la madre (tablas 6506 y 6507). https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=6506. Retrieved 2026-10-07.

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Questions

Which province has the highest live births?

Madrid province, with 60,555 in 2017, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Which province has the lowest live births?

Soria province, with 591 in 2017.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Movimiento natural de la población: nacimientos por residencia de la madre (tablas 6506 y 6507). Retrieved 2026-10-07.