The largest increase in employment in the third quarter of the year was recorded in the Canary Islands, where 38,100 additional jobs were created, a rise of 3.67 per cent, according to data from the Labour Force Survey (EPA) released on Tuesday by the INE.
Year-on-year, 65,700 more jobs were created in the Canary Islands between July and September this year than in the same period in 2025, representing a 6.52 per cent increase in the number of people in employment.
The number of unemployed stood at 131,600 at the end of September, representing a fall of 3.12 per cent compared with the previous quarter; year-on-year, this decline amounts to 23.55 per cent.
Canary Islands: Labour force participation rate stands at 60.34 per cent
These figures put the labour force participation rate for the archipelago at 60.34 per cent and the unemployment rate at 10.92 per cent.
The EPA for the third quarter of 2026 also shows that the population aged 16 and over in the Canary Islands has reached 1,997,300, representing an increase of 8,100 people, or 0.41 per cent, compared with the previous quarter.
This population group has increased by 21,400 people on the islands over the past year, representing a rise of 1.08 per cent.
The number of economically active people, meanwhile, stood at 1,205,200, an increase of 33,800 (2.89 per cent) compared with the figures recorded between April and June, and an increase of 25,100 (2.13 per cent) compared with those recorded in the third quarter of 2025.
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