Human trafficking in Spain

Spain ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in March 2002.

In 2008, the Government of Spain fully complied with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Spain undertook sustained measures to assist trafficking victims, prosecute traffickers, provide anti-trafficking law enforcement statistics, prevent trafficking, and reduce the demand for commercial sex.

The U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed the country in "Tier 1" in 2017 and 2023.

From 2017 to 2021, the government identified 1687 victims of human trafficking (an average of more than one a day); 5% of them were children.

In 2023, the Organised Crime Index gave the country a score of 7 out of 10 for human trafficking, noting that most activity was by Romanian, Chinese and Nigerian groups working in Andalusia.

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