Autonomous communities of Spain by persons employed, wholesale trade (Spain)

Catalonia had the highest persons employed, wholesale trade (Spain) of 17 autonomous communities in 2021, at 225,342. La Rioja had the lowest, at 6,404. The median was 37,804 and the figure for Spain was 1.1 million. Source: the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Highest225,342Catalonia

Lowest6,404La Rioja

Median37,80417 autonomous communities

Spain1,104,427History

Map of autonomous communities, 2021

Under 15K
15K to 31K
31K to 39K
39K to 130K
130K and over
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persons, 2021. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: INE, Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por mayor (CNAE 46), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

All autonomous communities, 2021

persons. Source: INE, Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por mayor (CNAE 46), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Autonomous communities	2021 persons	Change on 2020
1	Catalonia	225,342	-0.9%
2	Community of Madrid	184,980	-0.6%
3	Andalusia	170,022	+2.1%
4	Valencian Community	150,419	+0.3%
5	Region of Murcia	62,113	+2.4%
6	Galicia	53,232	+2.9%
7	Basque Country	40,143	-9.7%
8	Canary Islands	38,194	+0.8%
9	Castile and León	37,804	-3.9%
10	Castilla-La Mancha	35,035	+1.2%
11	Aragon	28,664	-4.1%
12	Balearic Islands	19,548	-8%
13	Extremadura	18,412	+2.5%
14	Asturias	14,372	-7.1%
15	Navarre	11,229	-1.5%
16	Cantabria	7,480	-13%
17	La Rioja	6,404	-5.4%

Other periods

About this ranking

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 wholesale trade (CNAE 2009 division 46), 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.

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

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por mayor (CNAE 46), 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 mayor (CNAE 46), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817) (Autonomous communities of Spain by persons employed, wholesale trade (Spain), 2021) [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 mayor (CNAE 46), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817), Autonomous communities of Spain by persons employed, wholesale trade (Spain), 2021. Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 8 Apr. 2026, https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/persons-employed-wholesale-spain/spain-regions?period=2021. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2026. Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por mayor (CNAE 46), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817). Autonomous communities of Spain by persons employed, wholesale trade (Spain), 2021. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/persons-employed-wholesale-spain/spain-regions?period=2021.

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística (2026) Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por mayor (CNAE 46), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817), Autonomous communities of Spain by persons employed, wholesale trade (Spain), 2021 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/persons-employed-wholesale-spain/spain-regions?period=2021 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which autonomous community has the highest persons employed, wholesale trade (Spain)?

Catalonia, with 225,342 in 2021, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Which autonomous community has the lowest persons employed, wholesale trade (Spain)?

La Rioja, with 6,404 in 2021.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por mayor (CNAE 46), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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