BBVA Foundation | Knowledge, innovation and society

The BBVA Foundation and the Valencian Economic Research Institute (Ivie) are engaged in a broad-ranging research program with its focus on Spain’s economic growth. One of the program’s building bricks is a set of databases on capital stock in Spain, which are regularly updated, enlarged and methodologically refined.

The long time span of the investment and capital data collected and their breakdown by sector and territorial unit have helped numerous researchers to expand their understanding of Spain’s economic development, and to reappraise previous readings from a variety of standpoints. The BBVA Foundation has also published over thirty monographs exploring the growth sources of Spain and its autonomous communities, structural changes in the Spanish economy, its comparative performance, and emerging challenges in productivity and technological change.

Databases available

• Capital stock and services in Spain and their territorial distribution
• Estimates of gross, net and productive capital stock, classified by sector and type of asset. This database is regularly updated.

• Spanish Capital Stock in Housing and its Territorial Distribution (1990-2007)
• Capital stock in housing series running from 1990 to 2007, land value included. Data are displayed with a breakdown by region, province and social class.

• Historical series on public capital and its territorial distribution (1900-2005)
• Functional classification of net public capital stock since 1900.

• Capital stock in Spain and its territorial distribution (1964-2002). Old methodology
• Last edition of the net capital stock estimates drawn up under the old methodology, with a classification by sector of private capital and a functional classification of capital.