People with asthma or allergies Spain 2012-2020
11 percent of the population analyzed. Meanwhile, approximately 1.6 million individuals in the country had received an asthma diagnosis. These figures portray a decrease in comparison to 2017 data. However, it is not yet clear to what extent the estimates were affected by the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous figures had shown an increasing trend on both asthma and chronic allergies.
It was estimated that, in 2020, around 4.3 million people aged 15 and older in Spain had been diagnosed with chronic allergies, the equivalent to