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Spain's unemployment rate edges up to 10.3% in September
Eurostat's seasonally adjusted rate rose from 10.2% in August but remained below September 2025; unemployment among under-25s fell year on year to 22.8%.
Spain's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 10.3% in September 2026 from 10.2% in August, according to Eurostat. The rate had remained at 10.2% for five months from April before the latest increase. A year earlier it was 10.4%.
The average across the 27 EU countries was 6.2% in September, leaving Spain 4.1 percentage points higher. For people under 25 in Spain, the rate was 22.8%, down from 24.7% in September 2025.
Eurostat follows the International Labour Organization definition, so its figures can differ from Spain's registered unemployment data published by the Ministry of Labour.
Source: Eurostat.
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