At the close of 2025, the unemployment rate on the island of Lanzarote reached 11.9%, according to the latest Active Population Survey (EPA) published by the National Statistics Institute (NIE).
The figure represents half a point less than in the third quarter of last year (12.47%) but is almost two points higher than at the end of 2024 when it stood at 10.09%.
Meanwhile, in the archipelago as a whole, unemployment fell by more than two percentage points from 14.59% to 12.63% between the third and fourth quarters of 2025.
And it is that the **Canary Islands registered the largest quarterly increase in employment in Spain**, of 3.55%, at the end of 2025Specifically, 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 a year-on-year increase of 1.95% that brought the number of employed people to 1,043,600.With a population over 16 years of age of 1,980,600 people, 0.23% more than the previous quarter, the Canary Islands registered 1,194,500 active individuals, 14,400 more and 1.22% more than the previous quarter
The EPA for the last quarter of 2025 also reflects that unemployment in the Canary Islands fell in that final stretch of last year by 21,300 people, or 12.38%, compared to the previous quarter, bringing the number of unemployed to 150,900.