Catalonia’s unemployment rate has climbed above 10% for the first time in three years, with 435,600 people out of work, according to Spain’s National Statistics Institute. The figure represents a 24% increase compared to the previous quarter and a 15.7% rise year-over-year, the highest increase since 2021.<\/p>\n
Overall, the unemployment rate climbed by 1.88 percentage points in three months to 10.12%, returning to double digits after nearly three years below that level.<\/p>\n
This is the sharpest first-quarter increase since 2009.<\/p>\n
Gender and age\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unemployment increased more among women in the latest quarter, while over the past year the rise was slightly higher among men.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The unemployment rate stands at 9.52% for men and 10.79% for women. In both cases, these are the highest first-quarter figures in the last two years.<\/p>\n
By age, the 25-54 group saw the largest annual increase, while youth unemployment fell year-over-year but rose compared to the previous quarter.<\/p>\n
Regionally, unemployment rose most in Girona and Lleida. Barcelona saw a smaller increase, while Tarragona was the only province where it fell slightly, though it remains the highest.<\/p>\n
Across Spain, unemployment rose to 10.83%, leaving Catalonia slightly below the national average.<\/p>\n
Employment declines<\/p>\n
Catalonia recorded the second-largest quarterly increase in unemployment among Spain’s regions, behind the Balearic Islands, and one of the largest year-on-year increases, behind Navarre.<\/p>\n
Employment fell by 1.18% compared to the previous quarter, with 46,200 fewer jobs. The decline was stronger among foreign workers.<\/p>\n
The services sector saw the biggest job losses and remains the largest employer in Catalonia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Total employment stood at 3,867,000, still a first-quarter record since 2002, despite the quarterly drop. Year over year, employment rose by 0.44%.<\/p>\n
Catalonia’s labour force surpassed 4.3 million people, a new record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catalonia’s unemployment rate has climbed above 10% for the first time in three years, with 435,600 people out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-422571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}