5 Jan, 2023 @ 12:45
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Jobless down: Spain ended 2022 with lowest level of unemployment for 15 years

Oficina De Empleo Employment Office Junta De Andalucia
Andalucia has seen the biggest fall in the number of jobless. Photo: Junta de Andalucia

SPAIN closed 2022 with its lowest level of unemployment since 2007.

The Labour Ministry revealed that the jobless total now stands at 2.83 million, down 268,252 on December of 2021.

Oficina De Empleo Employment Office Junta De Andalucia
Andalucia has seen the biggest fall in the number of jobless. Photo: Junta de Andalucia

The number of people in work rose by 471,360 compared with 2021, bringing the total number of employed people to 20.29 million.

Female unemployment was down 37,411 women compared with November 2022, to a total of 1,690,148; while male unemployment fell by 6,316 to 1,147,505.

Although the jobless figure for people under the age of 25 fell by 12,185 in December, youth unemployment is still high, standing at 32.3 %.

By region, the biggest winners were Andalucia, which saw a fall of 22,280 in job seekers, the Madrid region (6,782) and the Canary Islands (3,124).

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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