• Spain’s unemployment rose 95,900, or 3.8%, in the third quarter of 2026, the largest quarterly increase since the pandemic.
• The unemployment rate climbed to 10.2% from 9.9% in the previous quarter.
• Employment increased by 73,600, or 0.3%, marking the weakest third-quarter gain since 2019.
• The labor force expanded by 2.3 million since the third quarter of 2019, driven almost entirely by immigration.
• Temporary employees represented 13% of total employment, down from 23% in the second quarter of 2019 following the 2022 labor reform.

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