Canary Islands has a youth emancipation rate of 19.1%, which places it above the national average (16.3%) and as the second community, after Catalonia, where young people emancipate the most, according to the latest report from the Emancipation Observatory of the Youth Council.
According to this study, the youth emancipation rate in Spain rose in the first half of 2023 to 16.3% for the first time since 2020, although it is still well below the European Union average (31.9).
The study, published this Tuesday and focused on the population between 16 and 29 years old - which in Spain is 7,088,690 - shows that the structural housing problem makes Spain have one of the highest average ages of emancipation in Europe, at 30.3 years old.
Despite the slight improvement (0.37 percentage points compared to the previous year), the youth emancipation rate continues to be far from the levels reached before the pandemic (18.7%) and the maximum recorded prior to the economic crisis of 2008 (26.1%).
In addition, from January to June of last year, youth unemployment fell slightly to 20.1% - the lowest figure since mid-2008 - and the average youth salary increased by 5% to 12,062.59 euros.
Differences by sex and autonomous community
Regarding gender, women continue to emancipate more than men (19.4% compared to 13.3%).
With an emancipation rate above the Spanish average are Catalonia (20.9), Canary Islands (19.1), Murcia (18.2), Madrid (17), Asturias (16.6) and Balearic Islands (16.4).
Below the average are Aragon (16.2), Valencian Community (15.5), Navarra (15.5), Galicia (15.3), Basque Country (14.8), Extremadura (14.8), Castilla y León (14.7), La Rioja (14.7), Castilla-La Mancha (13.3), Andalusia (12.9) and Cantabria (11).
