This historic overtake comes in addition to the fact that Madrid already surpassed Catalonia’s Gross Domestic Product in 2019, the year in which President Isabel Díaz Ayuso began her first term in office. Thanks to its economic policies and tax cuts, Madrid has continued to consolidate its position throughout this period as the country’s economic engine, also leading job creation and foreign investment.
Thus, the Madrid Region closed 2025 with 3,882,343 contributors, representing 17.8% of the national total, after adding 18,077 new contributors in December (+0.5%), almost the entirety of the national increase, which amounted to 19,180 new contributors nationwide, a rise of just +0.1%.
In 2025, employment in the region increased by 108,159 new jobs (+2.9%), an average of 296 per day. Moreover, in the third four-month period of the year, nearly 150,000 new jobs were created, accounting for 83.3% of all job creation in Spain.
Likewise, data published today by the central government show that the number of self-employed workers in Madrid increased by 4,950 (+1.1%) compared to the previous year, bringing the total number of self-employed workers to 441,158, the highest figure in the historical series.
Meanwhile, registered unemployment fell by 3.2% year on year, with 9,099 fewer unemployed people. This reduction brings the number of people without work down to 274,930, the lowest figure for the month of December since 2007. Unemployment fell among both women (-3%) and men (-3.6%), as well as across all age groups: under 30 (-1.7%), 30 to 54 (-5.1%), and over 55 (-0.8%).
It also declined among the long-term unemployed (-2%) and among those who have been unemployed for less than one year (-4%), as well as across all productive sectors: Services (-2%), Construction (-9.6%), Industry (-3.7%), and Agriculture (-13.9%).