The unemployment rate among those under 25 fell to 28.5% in the second quarter, 1.7 points below that recorded in the first, although in absolute terms the number of unemployed between 16 and 25 years old rose by 9,500 people, to a total of 468,600, with Canary Islands registering the highest rate: 42.27%.
According to the Active Population Survey (EPA) published this Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the youth unemployment rate stood ten points below the figure for the second quarter of last year (38.4%).
Specifically, between 16 and 19 years old, there were 144,000 unemployed, 20,900 more than in the first quarter, while between 20 and 24 the figure was 324,600, 11,400 less.
For its part, youth employment grew compared to the figure for the first quarter, with 112,200 more young people joining the labor market, reaching 1.17 million employed in this age segment. The youth unemployment rate is also below that recorded in the second quarter of 2019 (33.14%), the year before the pandemic.
The regions with the highest youth unemployment rate were the Canary Islands (42.27%) and Andalusia (33.59%), together with the autonomous cities of Melilla (56.9%) and Ceuta (31.1%), while the autonomous communities with the lowest rate were Navarra (20.06%), Madrid (20.86%), the Balearic Islands (22.91%) and the Basque Country (24.62%).
