Spain's July jobless falls 0.1% from June to 2.40 million, lowest in 17 years
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Posted on August 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on August 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Spain's jobless rate fell to 2.40 million in July, the lowest in 17 years, with a net gain of 31,085 jobs, according to Labour Ministry data.
(Reuters) -The number of people registering as jobless in Spain fell by 0.1% in July from a month earlier, or by 1,357, leaving a total of 2.40 million people out of work, data from the Labour Ministry showed on Monday.
The number is the lowest since 2.39 million jobless people registered in June 2008.
Spain gained 31,085 net formal jobs in July to 21.64 million jobs, on a calendar-adjusted and excluding seasonality, a separate report from the Social Security Ministry said.
(Reporting by Mireia Merino, editing by Inti Landauro)
The jobless figure in Spain for July fell by 0.1% to 2.40 million people.
Spain gained 31,085 net formal jobs in July, bringing the total to 21.64 million jobs.
This is the lowest jobless figure since June 2008, when 2.39 million were registered.
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