Spain

Spain scores 3.91, with no standout strength and no catastrophic weakness — Spanish numbers cluster around the bottom quartile across all four pillars.

Strengths

• Public Sector Health at 5.56 — close to the EU27 median; Spanish government domains are predominantly EU-hosted.

Weaknesses

• Low per-capita developer density — 2.60; one of the lowest in the EU27 for a country of Spain's size.
• Bottom-tier grassroots adoption — sovereign browser share 11.15%, Linux 4.01%.
• Mid-low private-sector hosting — .es raw rating 0.44.

Outlook

Spain's positioning is shaped by limited domestic IT sector size relative to population. With 47M inhabitants, Spain should have more developers per capita than countries half its size; the fact that it doesn't suggests a talent-export economy rather than a domestic-build one. No single lever fixes this — structural workforce development is the long game.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Spain was a "contender," a powerful example of a country whose world-class open source framework elevated its overall standing despite an underdeveloped top-down strategic sovereignty agenda.

2024 progression

Spain's use of OSS continues to advance, especially at regional and municipal levels. The Law 40/2015 provides the legal framework, mandating reuse and interoperable repositories. The government has launched major initiatives like ALIA, a public AI infrastructure with open source models.

Historischer Verweis

OSOR-Datenblatt (PDF, 2024) — der länderbezogene Open-Source-Politikbericht, der in der zurückgezogenen Säule „Öffentliche Politik“ von EDRIX 1.0 verwendet wurde.