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Purchases and outsourcing. By activity groups and geographic destination of sales

Industrial sector. Turnover. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) and geographic destination of sales 2023
Spain Rest of European Union Rest of the world Total
Total industry 122,927,625 41,997,459 24,176,510 189,101,594
Extraction industries, oil refining 11,365,462 401,381 526,032 12,292,874
Industries of food products 26,721,405 6,305,478 3,752,474 36,779,357
Production of beverages and of tobacco products 2,083,954 391,106 1,078,425 3,553,485
Manufacture of textiles, leather, footwear. Tailoring 2,916,926 1,531,857 674,037 5,122,820
Manufacture of wood and cork-based products, except furniture; basketry 1,005,946 221,562 110,417 1,337,925
Manufacture of paper and graphic arts 5,353,826 1,144,372 471,292 6,969,490
Chemicals industries 13,082,366 5,483,848 3,898,791 22,465,005
Manufacture of pharmaceutical products 4,455,983 2,927,144 1,900,127 9,283,253
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products 3,560,717 1,517,539 613,100 5,691,356
Other non-metal mineral products industries 2,831,932 510,269 226,068 3,568,269
Metallurgy 2,363,142 1,930,199 765,524 5,058,866
Manufacture of steel products, except machinery and equipment 7,438,536 2,034,376 929,889 10,402,801
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical material and equipment 4,894,504 1,692,482 1,806,988 8,393,973
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified 3,099,412 1,585,586 1,988,031 6,673,029
Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 5,563,622 10,734,952 3,759,352 20,057,926
Manufacture of other transport equipment, except motor vehicles 418,279 222,936 122,102 763,317
Furniture making and other manufacturing industries 1,772,071 530,203 412,455 2,714,729
Repair and installation of machinery and equipment 2,312,731 215,799 231,213 2,759,744
Electricity and gas production and supply 17,208,173 2,421,967 625,330 20,255,471
Water supply; sanitation and waste management 4,478,638 194,405 284,861 4,957,904
Units: Thousand euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector.

Last update: July 3, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Geographic destination of sales
Distribution of the company's total amount of turnover between three geographical markets: Spain, the rest of the European Union and the rest of the world.
Turnover
It includes the amounts invoiced by the company during the reference year for sales of goods and services corresponding to the company's ordinary activities. These sales are accounted for in net terms, in other words, by deducting sales discounts for immediate payment, sales returns, the value of returned packaging and quantity discounts. The taxes and duties on invoiced goods and services are included but the VAT transferred to the customer is excluded.

Methodological aspects

The Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector , called the Industrial Survey of Companies prior to the reference year 2014, is the main source of information on the industrial sector. This is an annual sample-based survey conducted by the INE in collaboration with Idescat. It offers structural information on industrial companies (establishments, employed population, production, costs and sales) disaggregated by large sectors and by 15 groups of the CCAE-2009.

The survey covers the whole territory of Spain (until 2012 were excluded Ceuta and Melilla) and is designed to offer results by autonomous communities. Idescat performs an annual treatment of the microdata in the survey in order to extend the results for Catalonia, both in terms of the number of branches and the available variables.

In 2008, the Industrial Survey of Companies was reformed in order to adapt it to the new European Regulation on Structural Business Statistics (SBS), the new national Classification of Economic Activities (CNAE-2009) and the new General Accounting Plan, passed in 2007. Some new modifications were also introduced to improve the quality of the survey while maintaining the strategic objective of reducing the burden on informants.

Until the year 2012, the Survey focussed its field of study on industrial companies with at least one employee. From 2013 onwards, the population scope was widened to include industrial companies without employees and the territorial scope was widened to include companies in Ceuta and Melilla. This extension of the populational scope of the sample (selected for Spain as a whole, not by autonomous communities) has led to an increase in the year-over-year variability of the number of companies and establishments. To ensure the comparability of the indicators between the different years, the calculations only take into account industrial companies with employees.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.