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Unemployment rate. Less than 25 years

Unemployment rate. Less than 25 years
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
2024 22.1 26.5 14.9
2023 22.4 28.7 14.5
2022 24.5 29.7 14.5
2021 28.9 35.0 16.7
2020 34.0 38.3 17.5
2019 26.2 32.5 15.6
2018 27.7 34.3 16.7
2017 30.4 38.6 18.5
2016 34.3 44.4 20.7
2015 42.3 48.3 22.4
2014 47.1 53.2 24.1
2013 50.2 55.5 25.2
2012 50.4 52.9 24.4
2011 43.8 46.2 22.5
2010 39.1 41.5 22.4
2009 36.9 37.7 21.2
2008 20.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2007 13.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2006 14.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2005 15.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2004 21.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2003 22.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2002 20.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2001 17.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: %.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
Note: In April 2024, Idescat reviewed the results of Catalonia of the Economically Active Population Survey for the years 2021-2023 with the new population base derived from the 2021 Population and Housing Census.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: February 18, 2025. Revised series on March 31, 2025.

EPA

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Economically Active Population Survey (EPA).

Methodological note

Unemployment rates represent unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force. The labour force is the total number of people employed and unemployed. Unemployed persons comprise persons aged 15 to 74 who were:

  • a. without work during the reference week,
  • b. currently available for work, i.e. were available for paid employment or self-employment before the end of the two weeks following the reference week,
  • c. actively seeking work, i.e. had taken specific steps in the four weeks period ending with the reference week to seek paid employment or self-employment or who found a job to start later, i.e. within a period of, at most, three months.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.

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