Turnover of companies in the non-financial Services Sector stood at 767,885 million euros in 2023, an increase of 8.1% as compared with the previous year.
The value added by these companies grew by 10.4% and their gross operating surplus was 10.0%.
One salient feature of the Services Sector was the predominance of very small companies. In 2023, 95.4% of the companies had fewer than 10 employees. These enterprises employed 34.5% of the sector's personnel and their turnover accounted for 25.4% of the total number.
Companies with 250 or more employees, which accounted for 0.1% of the total number, employed 35.1% of the staff and had a turnover of 42.1% of the sector's turnover.
Absolute values and percentage distribution
Turnover increased in every activity section in 2023. The largest increases were in Hotels and restaurants (13.0%) and Administrative and support service activities (11.0%). These two sections accounted for 38.9% of the employed personnel.
18.9% of the Services Sector's turnover in 2023 was in the activity Transport and storage. Companies in this activity employed 11.5% of the sector's total workforce.
Las divisiones de actividad con mayor contribución a la facturación del sector en 2023 fueron Servicios de comidas y bebidas (8,9% del total), Transporte terrestre y por tubería (7,8%) y Almacenamiento y actividades anexas al transporte (7,5%).
Las divisiones de actividad que más aumentaron su facturación en 2023 fueron Actividades de agencias de viajes, operadores turísticos, servicios de reservas y actividades relacionadas (25,0%), Transporte aéreo (23,4%) y Servicios de información (21,2%).
Productivity (value added per employed person) for the Services Sector was 42,516 euros in 2023, with an increase of 8.5% compared with the previous year.
The activity segments that recorded the highest productivity were Telecommunications (178,308 euros), Air transport (126,245 euros) and Rental and leasing activities (121,436 euros).
On the other hand, those with the lowest productivity were Other personal service activities (laundries, hairdressing and other personal service activities), with 17,235 euros, and Services to buildings and landscape activities, with 20,758 euros.
In 2023, 88.2% of sales in the services sector were made within Spain. Sales outside Spain totalled 90.656 billion euros, 11.8% of the total.
The segments of activity with the highest percentage of sales outside of Spain were Air transport (56.8%) and Travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service and related activities (34.5%).
Investment in tangible assets carried out by the Services Sector amounted to 48,077 million euros in 2023.
Investment in tangible assets accounted for 13.4% of the value added of the sector. This percentage ranged from 4.6% for Education and Health activities and social services, and 45.6% for Real estate activities.
The Autonomous Communities with the greatest share of turnover for the Services sector in 2023 were Comunidad de Madrid (33.7%), Cataluña (19.5% of the total) and Andalucía (9.9%).
In turn, those with the least weight were La Rioja (0.4%), Cantabria (0.7%) and Extremadura (0.8%).
In terms of employment, in the Comunidad de Madrid 22.8% were employed in the Services Sector, whereas in Cataluña the figure was 19.2% and in Andalucía, 14.3%.
Note: To obtain the results by Autonomous Communities, the Local Unit whose main activity is Services is considered a statistical unit. These local units may be part of Enterprises whose activity is included in other sectors and, in this case, their data at the Enterprise level is not included in the Services sector. Another difference between this regional data (by premises) and the national data (by enterprises) is that only in the latter is it necessary to apply internal flow consolidations to each enterprise. This explains why the total turnover is somewhat higher in regional data than in national data.
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Structural Business Statistics: The Services Sector is an annual structural statistical operation aimed at enterprises, societies and individuals whose main activity is described in sections H, I, J, L, M, N, P, Q, R and divisions 95 and 96 of section S of the National Classification of Economic Activities CNAE-2009.
This operation allows us to ascertain the main structural and economic characteristics of companies in the sector under study by means of a broad set of variables relating to employed personnel, turnover and other income, purchases and consumption, personnel expenses, taxes and investments. The statistic includes economic aggregates such as the value of production and gross value added, as well as the main indicators.
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