The employment rate rises in 2022 by 1.8% in Navarra and falls by 0.8% in the BAC

The Basque Autonomous Community closed 2022 with 7700 less employed than at the beginning of the year, which represents a decrease of 0.80%, to 949,300, while unemployment increased by 1,900 people (2.13%) to 90,000, which left an unemployment rate of 8.66, compared to 8.43 the previous year.

According to the Active Population Survey corresponding to the fourth quarter of 2022 published this Thursday, compared to the previous three months of the year, 10,400 jobs were destroyed in the CAV (1.09%).

Navarra gained 5,200 employed people

Navarra closed the year 2022 with 5200 more employed people than the previous year, although the number of unemployed people also increased by 1,100, with which at the end of the year there were 293,100 employed people and 32,900 unemployed. With all this, the Foral Community ended the year with an unemployment rate of 10.09%.

This includes data from the last quarter of the year, in which Navarra increased the percentage of employed persons by 0.16% (500 people) compared to the previous quarter and by 1.80% (5,200 more people) compared to the same quarter of 2021.

The same sources show that of the 293,100 employed people as of December 1, 2022, 156,500 are men (64.12% activity rate) and 136,500 women (54.70% activity rate).

In addition, of the 32,900 unemployed people, 16,700 are men (9.66% unemployment rate) and 16,200 women (10.58% unemployment rate).

In the set of Spanish state The labor market closed 2022 with 20.46 million employed people, 278,900 more than at the beginning of the year, with a negative fourth quarter in which employment fell by 81,900, the largest decline for this period since 2013.