Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) year-on-year it has fallen by 17,190, representing a drop of 8.87%.
These data, released this Friday by the Ministry of Labor, imply that at the end of May the Canary Islands had 176,552 registered unemployed: 91,949 in the province of Las Palmas, where unemployment fell by 1,129 people last month, 1.26%. , a percentage that rises to 8.19% in interannual terms, and 84,603 in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where unemployment fell in the fifth month of the year by 1,971 people, that is, 2.28% (-9 .61% in annual rate).
The Canary Islands registers 238,449 job seekers, of which 31,216 are employed, 19,618 are unemployed applicants who indicate special working conditions in their application (only at home, teleworking, abroad), and 187,615 are unemployed, including find the 176,552 registered unemployed.
This last group, that of unemployed job seekers, decreased by 3,269 people (-1.71%) in May, and by 17,535 (-8.55%) in the last year.
Of the 176,552 registered unemployed in the Canary Islands at the end of last May, 9,231 were under 25 years of age and 167,321 belonged to the rest of the ages.
The service sector of the islands concentrated 136,545 registered unemployed, which have fallen by 2,064 people in the last month; 15,839 were from construction (-322); 13,903 were people without previous employment, a group that has decreased by 460 people; 6,620 were from industry (-151) and 3,645 from agriculture (-143).
Of the 13,903 unemployed registered in May in the Canary Islands without previous employment, 6,054 were over 44 years old, 2,633 between 30 and 44 years old, 2,444 between 20 and 24 years old; 1,553 between 25 and 29, and 1,219 over 20 years.
At the end of the fifth month of the year, 51,372 contracts had been signed in the Canary Islands, 4,080 more than in April, which represents an increase of 8.63%, and 8,351 less than in May 2022 (-13.98%). Of these, 23,647 were permanent and 27,725 temporary.
At the end of April, the Canary Islands registered 93,915 beneficiaries of unemployment benefits, of which 49,019 received a subsidy, 37,005 a contributory benefit and 7,891 Active Insertion Income, which represented a total expenditure of 88,707 million euros, at an average amount monthly per beneficiary of 918.2 euros. EFE