Unemployment in the Canary Islands is the lowest in the last 17 years

The Deputy Minister of Employment of the Canary Islands Executive, Isabel León, highlighted this Tuesday, when it was announced that unemployment fell in April by 2,784 people in the islands, that this indicator "reaches its lowest level in seventeen years".

With this decrease, job seekers in the autonomous community stand at 154,644 people.

Long-term unemployment stands at 69,597 people and since March 2009 the unemployed included in this category have not fallen below 70,000, emphasizes León, who also celebrated in a statement that the reduction in unemployment was widespread in all economic sectors and on all the islands.

"In recent months we have seen how long-term unemployed people have been gradually decreasing until they currently reach 69,597 job seekers. This is a figure that represents 45% of the total unemployed and that has not fallen below the barrier of 70,000 people for more than sixteen years, specifically since March 2009", emphasizes the Deputy Minister.

In year-on-year terms, unemployment has been reduced in the archipelago by 12,824 people, which is equivalent to a decrease of 7.66%, figures that, according to León, "represent the best data recorded in the last seventeen years, confirming the positive trend that has been occurring in the labor market of the islands".

The balance of job creation in all the islands is positive in the monthly evolution. Unemployment decreased in all of them.

In percentage terms, El Hierro occupies the first position, with a decrease of 5.83%, which translates into 36 unemployed. It is followed by La Palma, with -3.2% (200 fewer people) and La Gomera, with -2.89% (25 fewer people) respectively.

The drop in unemployment in Lanzarote was 2.8% (with 206 fewer people) and in Tenerife 1.79% (with 1,226 fewer people). In Fuerteventura the decrease was 1.56% (with 93 fewer people), while in Gran Canaria it experienced a decrease of 1.47% (with 998 fewer people).