In the Canary Islands, 110,500 new jobs were created last year, of which 56,600 corresponded to the last quarter, according to data from the Active Population Survey released this Thursday by the INE.
This means that the islands registered between October and December 2021 the largest relative quarterly increase in employment in the country, of 6.79%, when the number of assets rose by 3,000 people.
A leadership position that also corresponded to it in terms of relative annual variation of employment, which grew by 13.36% in a year in which the archipelago accounted for 50,600 more assets.
The archipelago closed the last quarter of 2021 with an unemployment rate of 18.94% of its active population, the second highest in the country. Counting with 219,100 unemployed people, the Canary Islands ended 2021 with 59,900 fewer unemployed than in 2020, which meant a relative annual decrease of 21.47%.
Canary Islands created 110,500 jobs in 2021
Last quarter of last year the islands created 56,600 jobs
