Industry accounts for 19.8% of Basque employment, Eustat says
Industry represented 19.8% of total employment in Spain’s Basque Country in 2024, according to a panorama published by Eustat on 21 October. Industry’s share of regional gross value added was 23.0%.
The Basque statistics institute’s 2026 industry panorama compiles the latest available structural data, mainly for 2024. Industry accounted for 19.8% of employment in the Basque Country, compared with 11.4% in Spain and 15.3% across the EU-27. Industrial establishments averaged 17.9 employees.
Labour productivity in manufacturing reached €79,700 per worker in 2024, above Spain’s €74,200 but below France (€90,500) and Germany (€96,400), Eustat reported. Industrial goods exports totalled €31.262 billion against imports of €27.341 billion, producing a €3.921 billion trade surplus and a 114.3% export-to-import coverage ratio.
INSEE data for 2022 put the share of the region’s most polluting car classes at 29.8%, rising to 48.7% among car-owning households with the lowest incomes.
INE reported that the index fell 1.8% from the preceding quarter in the fourth quarter of 2026. The balance of firms expecting favorable conditions narrowed to 5.7 points.
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