Unemployment increased on the island of Lanzarote by 0.4% in March, which is equivalent to 25 more people on the unemployment lists up to a total of 6,780 people, according to data provided by the Canarian Employment Observatory (Obecan).
.With respect to last year, unemployment has fallen on the rabbit island by 7.9%, equivalent to about 600 workers.
In the whole of Canarias, registered unemployment rose by 843 people in March, a 0.58% more in relation to that of the previous month, which placed the number of unemployed in the archipelago at 146,499, where the set of job seekers is made up of 214,661 people.
Of these, 36,637 are employed, 21,822 are job seekers without employment with special working conditions, and 156,202 are unemployed job seekers, a group that grew in March in the islands by 1,293 people, 0.83%, and which includes the 146,499 unemployed counted at the end of the third month of 2026.
By islands, in Tenerife unemployment rose by 0.9%, while in Gran Canaria it did so by 0.5%. In contrast, it fell in La Palma (-1.4%) and Fuerteventura (-0.1%).
In year-on-year terms, unemployment has fallen in the islands by 10,929 people, a 6.94%, in the last twelve months, according to data released this Monday by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy.
The largest monthly rise in unemployment registered in March in Spain, that of the Canary Islands, affected more the western province, which added 514 unemployed, 0.73% more compared to February, which raised the number of unemployed to 71,048 at the close of March.