(Reuters) -Spain’s unemployment rate rose to 10.45% in the third quarter of 2025 even as the number of people with jobs rose to a new record, data from the National Statistics Institute showed on Friday.
The rate bounced back from the lowest level since the first quarter of 2008 as more people searched for a job, INE said.
Spain added 118,400 new jobs in the quarter, to reach 22.4 million formal workers, a new milestone, but the unemployment rose by 60,100 people to reach 2.6 million.
“These figures corroborate the dynamism of the labour market,” the Economy Ministry said in a statement.
(Reporting by Mireia Merino and Emma Pinedo; Editing by Charlie Devereux)
