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🇪🇸 Spain

1 in 89 of the world’s cats lives here

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Numbers

pets

4.939 million 📎 www.zzf.de 2024 FEDIAF Facts & Figures 2026 (2024 data): 4,939,000 pet cats

street

1.81 million 📎 www.mdpi.com 2025 modelled ESTIMATE: ~1.81M community cats in ~125,000 colonies (Animals 2025, 1,128 municipalities) — no national census

Share of the world’s cats

1.1% 📎

Lifespan in the data

10.8 yrs 🎲

Neutered (pets / street)

59% / 20% 🎲 home 59% (Fundación Affinity study via Ecoticias, undated — LOW) · colonies ~20% sterilised (Animals 2025 model) — both treated as 🎲

Kept indoors

60% 🎲

And what kind of cat 🎲

• a cat from an ordinary home37%
• a street cat19%
• a cat from a poor household15%
• a cat from a wealthy home13%
• a kitten from an unwanted litter5.9%
• a show-cattery cat5.8%
• a backyard-bred kitten2.9%
• a temple, shrine or mosque cat1.6%
• a lab cat<0.1%

Beliefs about cats

• Black cats: still seen as unlucky by many

Laws and policies

• Ley 7/2023 (trap-neuter-return) — Town halls must manage colonies by CER · pet cats must be chipped and sterilised before 6 months. 📎 www.boe.es
• Ley 7/2023 (colony protection) — No killing, dumping or moving colony cats · killing one is "very serious": €50,001–200,000. 📎 www.boe.es

Help real cats in Spain

• ANAA – Asociación Nacional Amigos de los Animales — Madrid adoption centre, colony care, neutering www.anaaweb.org

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