El Mundo Newspaper Spain is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain and the largest digital newspaper (elmundo.es) with a daily circulation topping 200,000 readers for the printed edition and 24 million unique web visitors per month for the digital one in 2009. With El País and ABC. it is one of the newspapers of record in that country.

It first appeared on October 23, 1989, founded by Alfonso de Salas, Pedro J. Ramírez (who still serves as publisher and editor), Balbino Fraga and Juan González, a journalist. Editorially, it often expresses the mainstream views of the Spanish right with independent and liberal overtones. Unlike other Spanish newspapers, its editor, Pedro J. Ramírez, is a prominent public figure who has become linked with the paper in the eyes of the public