January is not usually a good month for employment and that of 2025 has not been an exception. In the first month of the year 242,148 jobs were destroyed in Spain With respect to December. Hospitality and Commerce were the sectors that were most resented from the end of the Christmas campaign, according to the affiliation data released on Tuesday by the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security, which reveal the greatest fall in employment for a month of January in five years . Even so, the total volume of employed is maintained above 21 million. On the other hand, the number of unemployed touches the 2.6 million, their lowest level for a year start in 17 years, despite Grow the unemployment recorded in 38,725according to data from the Ministry of Labor.
The labor market thus replied its traditional behavior at the beginning of the year. When observing the historical series, it is observed that The number of employed has always descended in the months of January. Specifically, last year the affiliation to Social Security was reduced in 231,250 people, a fall that was the largest in four years, from the pandemic, and the second worst since 2013. The fall of the occupation at the start of 2025 It exceeds those figures, although with a higher total volume of workers. At that time, a year ago, the total number of people employed in Spain slightly exceeded 20.6 million. For its part, unemployment behavior this year has been something better. Last year, it grew by 60,404 people compared to the previous month to touching 2.77 million unemployed, at minimum levels since 2008.
On this occasion, the reduction of the labor market in January arrives after a month of December in which Social Security added 35,500 more affiliates, the greatest creation of employment in a twelfth month of the last three years. It was the brooch to close One year 2024 in which half a million jobs were generated compared to the end of 2023 to account for a total of 21.3 million employed. That pull was mainly explained by the good progress of the services, which contributed six out of seven new jobs last year, compared to 38,500 jobs generated in the industry and the 30,051 in the construction sector.
Even so, despite the good progress of the labor market in 2024, Spain It is still one of the countries with the most unemployed in the European Union. According to Eurostat data, he heads the list with a 10.6% rate, followed by 9.4% of Greece and 8.6% of Finland. At the opposite end, in the Czech Republic there is hardly a 2.6% unemployment and in Malta and Poland, 3%. In global computation, the Eurozone unemployment rate stood in December at 6.3%, in historical minimums.
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