MADRID, Apr 29 (AFP) : Spain's unemployment rate climbed to nearly 26 per cent in the first quarter of 2014, official data showed today, as millions searched in vain for a job in a halting recovery from recession. Despite emerging gingerly from a two-year downturn in mid-2013, the latest figures showed Spain still failing to significantly dent one of the highest unemployment rates in the industrialised world.
The unemployment rate climbed to 25.93 per cent in the first three months of 2014, up from 25.73 per cent in the previous quarter, the National Statistics Institute said. It was not all bad news.
Spanish jobless rate rises to 25.93pc
FE Team | Published: April 30, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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