This is a better percentage than the forecasts of the Basque Government, which expected it to be 10.3% and also lower than the 11.4% with which 2020 closed.
The Basque Country closed last year with an unemployment rate of 9.9%, a percentage better than the forecasts of the Basque Government, which expected it to be 10.3%.
This unemployment rate is also lower than the 11.4% with which 2020 closed, the year marked by the restrictive measures to deal with the covid pandemic, but slightly worse than that of the end of 2019, when it was 9 ,5 %.
If the fourth quarter of 2021 is compared with the third, a period in which an unemployment rate was achieved that had not occurred since 2010, it has risen one point from the 8.9% marked in the summer.
The Basque Statistics Institute-Eustat has published the data from the Population Survey in Relation to Activity (PRA) corresponding to the fourth quarter of last year.
At the end of last year, the number of unemployed people, that is to say, those who are looking for a job, make active search efforts and are also available to work, is estimated at 104,700, which is 12,000 more than the previous quarter.
The group of unemployed men, which comprises 52,100 people, increased by 3,900 (+8.1%), while that of unemployed women increased by 8,000 (+17.9%), to a total of 52,600 in the trimester.
By province, in Bizkaia unemployed people increased by 8,400, which led to a rise in the unemployment rate of 1.4 points to 11.3%.
In Gipuzkoa, which has 27,000 unemployed people, unemployment increased by 2,900 and the unemployment rate by 0.9 points, to 7.9%, while in Álava the number of unemployed grew by 600 and the unemployment rate reached 9.5%, which is 0.3 points more than the previous quarter.
As for the capitals, unemployment increased in Bilbao by 4,800 people and in San Sebastián by 100, while in Vitoria it remained the same as in the third quarter of the year.
According to the Statistical Office of the European Union, in November 2021, the latest official data available, the unemployment rate for the European Union as a whole stood at 6.5% and that of Spain at 14.1%.
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