US EditionSpain Sees Unemployment Drop Below 10% for First Time in Nearly 18 Years
Employment grew by 605,400 in 2025, driven by economic expansion and tourism recovery, lowering Spain's unemployment rate to 9.93%, the lowest since 2008, INE reported.
- By the end of 2025, Spain's unemployment rate fell to 9.93 percent, the first time below 10 percent since early 2008, Spain's National Statistics Institute reported.
- Employment gains totaled 605,400 in 2025, boosting Spain's labour market as the working population now stands at around 25 million after increasing by almost half a million last year.
- Almost 22.5 million people are now employed in Spain, with unemployment down by 107,700 among Spaniards and 28,300 among resident foreigners over the past year.
- Youth unemployment remains high and many young people still live with their parents up to the age of 30, while the leftist government aims to lower the rate by 2027.
- In EU terms, Spain historically had the bloc's highest unemployment, but Spain's economic growth has outperformed many peers and the working population stands at around 25 million.
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The labour market closes the year 2025 with good data, both for the reduction of the unemployment rate, which remains below 10%, and for the creation of 605,400 new jobs, which leads to a new record of occupation. All accompanied also by an increase of the active population. That is to say, that the trends of the previous years were maintained, as also followed with the leading role of foreign workers, which add four out of six new occupied.Cont…
Spain sees unemployment drop below 10% for first time in nearly 18 years
Spain ended 2025 with its unemployment rate below 10% for the first time since 2008, marking a major milestone in the country’s long‑running struggle with high joblessness. The latest figures from the Instituto Nacional de Empleo (INE) or National Employment Institute show the jobless rate stood at 9.93% in the final quarter of 2025, a significant drop from 10.45% three months earlier and the… Source
In Spain, the unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest level in 18 years.
Unemployment in Spain falls below 10 percent for first time in 18 years
The unemployment rate in Spain fell by just over half a percentage point to 9.93 percent by the end of 2025, according to new data from the Labour Force Survey recently published by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE).
Unemployment fell last year in Spain for the fifth consecutive year, thanks to the tug of the national economy, which was once again the most dynamic among the large ones in the Eurozone with an advance of 2.9%. The unemployment rate stood at 9.93%. It fell from the barrier of 10% for the first time since the beginning of the financial crisis, back in the first quarter of 2008, in a context in which household consumption and the investment of co…
The evolution of employment continues to give good news to Spain: the unemployment rate is at least below 10% for the first time since 2008. The Active Population Survey (EPA) of the fourth quarter of 2025 published on Tuesday indicates that the proportion of unemployed people to the total labour force is 9.93%, seven tenths below last year. The last time Spain reported a proportion of unemployment less than 10% was in the first quarter of 2008 …
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