EU 6.25
· European ranking
3 / 34
No change compared with previous year
Spain: Unemployment rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
10.50% of labour force
EU 6.25 · +4.2 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force aged 15 to 74.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Explore this indicator
Regional map
· 2025 · 19 regions
Loading map preview...
Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
-
1+137.14
24.90
-
2+131.43
24.30
-
3+44.76
15.20
-
4+40.95
14.80
-
5+28.57
13.50
-
6+21.90
12.80
-
7+15.24
12.10
-
8+10.48
11.60
-
9-16.19
8.80
-
9-16.19
8.80
-
11-18.10
8.60
-
12-20.00
8.40
-
12-20.00
8.40
-
14-22.86
8.10
-
15-23.81
8.00
-
15-23.81
8.00
-
17-26.67
7.70
-
18-30.48
7.30
-
18-30.48
7.30
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Spain performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Spain
In Spain, Unemployment rate is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 10.5% versus 6.3% in 2025, with a gap of 4.3 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Spain, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 15.50% in 2020 to 10.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 11.40% in 2024 to 10.50% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.
Regional differences in Spain
In Spain, regional differences in Unemployment rate are pronounced. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Melilla records the highest value (24.9%) and Cantabria the lowest (7.3%), a gap of 17.6 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Spain, the evidence for Employment & Economic Security leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.