Spain is once again leading the strike in the European Unionaccording to the latest data published by the Eurostat statistical office. He Eurozone unemployment was 6.4%while unemployment in the EU has remained stable for months … October at 6%.
Eurostat explains that across the Union, the unemployment rate remained stable compared to September, although it growing by 5.8% compared to the previous year’s figures, in October 2024.
Estimates from the Statistical Office conclude that 13,351 million people are unemployed in the EU, of which 11,033 belong to the Eurozone.
Unemployment in the European Union
In this sense, according to the data, Spain is once again leading the strike in the EU. Our country records a unemployment rate of 10.5%the highest in the entire Union, implying that 2.5 million people were unemployed in October 2025. Globally, Spain’s unemployment rate remains stable compared to the months of July, August and September.
Spain exceeds four points of the eurozone rate and 4.5 of the unemployment rate of the EU as a whole. It thus exceeds countries like Finland (9.8%), Sweden (9%), Greece (8.6%) and France (7.7%). At the opposite extreme, those experiencing the least unemployment are Malta (3.1%), the Czech Republic and Poland (3.2%), Bulgaria (3.6%) and Germany (3.8%).
Spain, also European leader in youth unemployment
On the other hand, Spain She is also once again the leader in youth unemployment, that of those under 25. October data published by Eurostat shows that across the EU, 15.2% of young people were unemployed, representing 2.96 billion people. As for the euro zone, the rate falls to 14.8% and 2.352 million inhabitants.
In this case, youth unemployment in the Eurozone and the EU increased both compared to the previous month and compared to data for October 2024.
Spain’s rate stands at 25.3%. These are ten points higher than the rate recorded in the EU as a whole and 10.5 points higher than the euro area rate. In absolute terms, this means that 479,000 young people under the age of 25 are out of work in our country.
Spain’s rate is higher than that of Finland (24.8%), Sweden (24.7%), Italy (19.8%), Estonia (19.4%) and France and Greece (18.9%), which are the countries that appear immediately after in the ranking.
At the opposite extreme, among countries with the lowest youth unemployment, Germany comes at the bottom (6.6%), followed by the Netherlands (9%), Malta (10.1%) and the Czech Republic (10.6%). Data for Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Romania and Slovenia are not available in the statistics because they are collected every three months.
Unemployment data in Spain in November
Eurostat generally publishes data with a margin of two months from the current month. Data published in Spain in December show that employment decreased in November with 14,358 fewer members due to the sharp drop in hotel activity.
Social security closed the month with an average of 21.8 million affiliates, while the number of unemployed, down by 18,805, stood at 2.4 million.
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