Spain

Where it is on record

Aid is drawn at each country's interior point, sized by seven years of commitments; the CRS carries no coordinates, so a country point is the honest place. The gas lines to Spain are drawn as routes, power units in the map's status colours. Debt owed to Spain is off until switched on.

The pipelines and power units are the map's own records with a Spanish company among the owners; the profile does not add records, it filters. The Medgaz and Maghreb–Europe lines are cut at the frame where they cross to Spain.

Aid activities: OECD Creditor Reporting System

Spain reports to the OECD at activity level, with 9,292 distinct titles for 12,494 records, most of them the small grants of the cooperation agency, the regions and the municipalities to NGOs and to Morocco's, Senegal's and Mali's institutions. The few loans are the state's FONPRODE instruments. The record is one of many small things rather than works.

The purpose codes are the reliable part. The descriptions often name a region or a town (2,185 records mention one), but the CRS carries no coordinates, so the aid is drawn at country points and kept off the project map.

Records that build something

Purpose codes for transport, energy, water and the facility codes of health and education, plus titles that mention building, renovating or drilling: 2,347 records, USD 332 m, over the seven years.

Pipelines and power units with a Spanish owner

The map's energy layers carry an owner field; this table is those records filtered for a Spanish company. The gas pipelines are Spain's own supply lines, Medgaz with Naturgy and Enagás among the owners and the Maghreb–Europe line, with Repsol's and Naturgy's stakes in Egypt's and Algeria's fields' export lines. The power units are the developers' solar and wind farms: Acciona's in South Africa and Egypt, Sener's and Abengoa's solar plants in Morocco and South Africa, Elecnor's and Cobra's EPC-owned plants.

Country-year series: investment stock, net aid, debt

Three official series describe Spanish money in Africa one country and one year at a time. The OECD's FDI positions give the outward direct-investment stock by partner country, Morocco far ahead, where Spanish manufacturers and banks sit. The DAC2a table gives net ODA by recipient. The World Bank's debt statistics give what each government owes Spanish creditors: the state's development loans and the old export credits that survived the debt relief of the 2000s, and loans from Spanish banks.

Direct-investment stock by partner country

Net ODA by recipient

Over 2010–2024 net ODA from Spain to Africa came to USD 4.04 bn; DR Congo received the most.

Debt owed to Spain

World Bank International Debt Statistics, counterpart 050: all public and publicly guaranteed debt to creditors there, the state and its banks together (series DPPG, as on the debt page), with the bilateral official part beside it. Sovereign and sovereign-guaranteed borrowing only; COFIDES's and CESCE-covered credits to private borrowers are outside the series.

How to read this page

One record is

In the aid tables, one CRS activity as Spain reports it. In the energy table, one GEM power unit, one pipeline (its segments counted) or one cable, as the map carries them. In the series, one country and one year.

Status

GEM and TeleGeography records use the map's own mapping. Aid activities have no status.

Money

CRS commitments and disbursements are in current US dollars as reported. Net ODA is current prices. FDI stock is the OECD's net position, all resident units, immediate counterpart. Debt is the World Bank's public and publicly guaranteed stock owed to the lender's creditors, the state and its banks together, as the debt page counts it, with the bilateral official part, the state's own claims, beside it. None of these is a project value and none is added to the map's lenders.

Location

Aid and the series are drawn at the country's interior point. Pipelines and cables are the map's routes, thinned; power units carry GEM's coordinates.

Not here, and why

• The cooperation agency's IATI files carry the agency's projects with locations; the site does not read them yet.
• CESCE export-credit cover and COFIDES's investments have no project register; where they show up it is through the CRS loan records.
• Oil and gas fields with Spanish operators are in GEM's extraction tracker, released through a request form only.

Sources and licences

• OECD, Creditor Reporting System, Spain as provider (DAC code 50), activity-level microdata through the SDMX API; OECD terms of use, free reuse with attribution. OECD, DAC2a, net ODA by recipient (measure 206), current prices. OECD, FDI positions by partner country (BMD4), Spain outward.
• World Bank, International Debt Statistics, source 6, counterpart area 050; CC BY 4.0, release of 3 Dec 2025.
• Global Energy Monitor, Global Integrated Power Tracker and Global Gas and Oil Infrastructure Trackers, as the map draws them; CC BY 4.0. TeleGeography, Submarine Cable Map; CC BY-SA 4.0.

Download

Everything on this page, with the aid aggregates by country, year, purpose and agency, the series per country and the filtered energy records: spain.json.