People die every day for all sorts of reasons. It’s possible that an epidemic of one disease might actually lower total deaths in the country due to people avoiding other causes of deaths. But in Spain it looks like total deaths were up at least 40% nationally, and much more in hard hit regions.

Here is a Spanish document (Vigilancia de la Mortalidad Diaria. Centro Nacional de Epidemiología (ISCIII)) that I believe gives total number of deaths for all of Spain and for regions

Surveillance of excess mortality from all causes. MoMo

Situation as of March 31, 2020 The Daily Mortality Monitoring System (MoMo) in Spain uses the information from All-cause mortality obtained daily from 3,929 computerized civil registries of the Ministry of Justice, corresponding to 92% of the Spanish population and which includes all provinces. Estimates of expected mortality are made using restrictive models of historical means based on mortality observed from January 1, 2008 to a year prior to the current date. Deaths observed in the last 28 days are corrected for the delay in notification, taking into account. It counts three factors: the number of deaths reported daily, the distribution of deaths notified daily and the average number of deaths per day, applying a regularization to the maximum likelihood estimate. Results at the national level

At the national level, a period of excess is estimated by the MoMo system from Mar 17 to 30.The Results are described below. Figure 1. Observed and expected all-cause mortality. Spain, December 2019 until March 31, 2020

Horizontal is dates since late November. Vertical is national deaths per day. The blue line is the historical average, the black line is this year. So late March looks like about 1600 deaths per day versus an average of about 1150 deaths per day. The purple area is a 99% confidence interval, so 2020 looks about as bad as a once a century flu spike, although later in the year. Plus, it’s not over yet. (I don’t know whether the sharp decline in deaths in the black line in the last couple of days is for real or an artifact of deaths trickling in late.)

In Andalucia, the coronavirus toll doesn’t stand out yet compared to historical figures for deaths:

But in some other parts of Spain, total deaths are running several times as high as expected: