Only 14.5% of young people between 16 and 29 years old who reside in the Canary Islands manage to live on their own, while the rest remain at their parents' home, an emancipation figure that is among the lowest in Spain (the fifth from the bottom), according to a report published this Thursday by the Spanish Youth Council.
This study highlights that, if in 2018 the Canary Islands presented youth emancipation data above the national average, its situation in this indicator has worsened and is now 1.1 percentage points below the country's average, which is 15.6%, at the end of 2021.
According to the study, the conditions of access to the labor market for the population of the islands last year were not very encouraging: the youth unemployment rate in the Canary Islands was 29.7% (23.6% in Spain) and temporary employment was very common, exceeding 60%, after increasing by more than twelve points in just one year," says the Youth Council.
This body considers it "very symptomatic that one of the labor categories that increased the most among the young population of the Canary Islands was that corresponding to 'elementary occupations', which groups unskilled jobs".
The report also highlights as barriers to the emancipation of young Canarians the fact that the archipelago is the second autonomous community with the highest risk of poverty and social exclusion among the population aged 16 to 29. Also, the average income of free rental housing, the one preferred by young people, increased by 5.32%.
