The unemployment rate in Spain stood at 12.87% at the end of last year, with an increase of 21 tenths compared to the previous quarter, which ended in September, the Spanish National Statistics Institute revealed on Thursday.
In the previous quarter (July to September), the unemployment rate in Spain had already risen 18 tenths, after falling to 12.48% in the second quarter of the year (April to June), the lowest figure since the end of 2008 , with the number of unemployed below three million also for the first time since 2008.
However, the country closed 2022 again with more than three million unemployed (3,024,000). Spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the European Union.
Throughout 2022, the unemployment rate in Spain fell by 45 hundredths and the country closed the year with 79,900 fewer unemployed, compared to the end of 2021.
At the end of last year, the number of people with work in Spain amounted to 20,463,900, while the unemployed were 3,024,000.
In 2022, in Spain, employment increased in services (314,300 more workers), in industry (36,600 more) and in construction (14,900 more), while the biggest drop occurred in agriculture, which lost last year 86,900 people, according to data released this Tuesday. Thursday.
Source: TSF
