Portugal vs Spain: Sovereign state

Portugal

in 2022

Spain

in 2022

Portugal rank

1st

Spain rank

1st

Sovereign state over time

Portugal currently reports 1 against 1 in Spain, a difference of 0.

Across all 207 years both countries report, Spain has been ahead every year.

Portugal ranks 1st and Spain ranks 1st of 194 countries.

Indicator: Sovereign state
Source: Correlates of War - State System Membership (2017) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 194 places, 40,158 data points, 1816–2022
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The country is identified as a sovereign state by Correlates of War - State System Membership dataset.