Unemployment has risen in Andalusia by 2,882 people in the month of August and the number of unemployed registered in the public employment services offices (formerly INEM) stands at 696,255, which represents an increase of 0.42% compared to the previous month. according to data provided this Monday by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy.
With these figures, Andalusia is the third community with an increase in unemployment in absolute terms in the eighth month of this 2023, preceded by Catalonia (7,516) and the Valencian Community (3,190).
By sectors, compared to the month of July, unemployment has decreased by 1.17% in agriculture (2,483 fewer people) and in the group without previous employment, which has suffered a reduction of 1.09% (2,672 people). However, the data has increased in the construction sector by 2.2% (4,792 new job seekers) and in the services sector, with 1.21%, (with a total of 23,097).
In year-on-year terms, unemployment has decreased by 76,239 people in the month of August in Andalusia, which represents a drop of 9.87% compared to the same month of the previous year. In absolute terms, Andalusia leads this section, being the region in which the number of unemployed decreased the most, which fell in all territories except Melilla.
At the national level, the number of unemployed registered in the offices of public employment services increased by 24,826 people in August in relation to the previous month (0.9%) driven, above all, by the services sector, which concentrated a good part of the increase in unemployment. The August increase puts an end to a streak of five consecutive months of unemployment declines.
At the end of the eighth month of the year, the total number of unemployed once again exceeded the barrier of 2.7 million people, from which it had fallen for the first time in 15 years last June.
Specifically, August ended with 2,702,700 unemployed people, its lowest number in a month of August since 2008, according to data published this Monday by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy.
The Department headed by Yolanda Díaz has highlighted that, for 25 years, unemployment has risen in August due to "the seasonal cycles of the production model." Thus, in seasonally adjusted terms, unemployment fell in August of this year by 23,373 people.
The rise in unemployment in August of this year is lower than that experienced in the same month of 2022, when unemployment increased by 40,428 people. It contrasts, on the other hand, with the decrease in August 2021, when the return to normality after the pandemic led to a drop in unemployment of 82,583 people. Except for 2021, the rise in unemployment in August of this year is the lowest in this month since 2016.
Since the beginning of the comparable historical series, in 1996, unemployment has fallen six times in August and has risen 22 times, especially in 2008, when the financial crisis led unemployment to increase by more than 103,000 people.
In the last year, unemployment has accumulated a decrease of 221,540 unemployed, which is 7.6% less, with a decline in female unemployment of 121,560 women (-7%) and a fall in male unemployment of 99,980 men (-8, 5%).
