Canary Islands registered the largest quarterly increase in employment, at 3.55%, at the end of 2025, according to data from the Active Population Survey (EPA) released this Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute.
Specifically, the archipelago recorded 35,700 new jobs between October and December of last year, 19,900 more than those counted in the same period of 2024, which represented an annual increase of 1.95% that placed the number of employed at 1,043,600 people.
With a population over 16 years of age of 1,980,600 people, 0.23% more than in the previous quarter, the Canary Islands registered 1,194,500 active individuals, 14,400 more and 1.22% more than in the previous quarter.
The EPA for the last quarter of 2025 also reflects that unemployment in the Canary Islands fell in that final period of last year by 21,300 people, 12.38%, compared to the previous quarter, which placed the number of unemployed at 150,900. In annual terms, this represented an increase of 9.04%, that is, 12,500 more unemployed than those counted at the end of 2024.
With all this, the activity rate stood at 60.31% and the unemployment rate at 12.63%, above the national average in this last category, which was 9.93%.
Canary Islands registered the largest quarterly employment increase at the close of 2025
However, the unemployment rate in the Canary Islands is still above the national average, which has just fallen below 10%
January 27 2026 (09:58 WET)
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January 27 2026 (09:58 WET)
