Economically Active Population Survey. 2024

The unemployment rate in Catalonia stood at a mean of 8.9% in 2024, with a total of 373,600 people unemployed, 2.8% less than in 2023, according to the Economically Active Population Survey. The number of households all of whose active members were unemployed was 106,400 households (3.3% of all Catalan households), which means a 4.8% decreases compared with the year before.

As for young people under 25, the mean annual unemployment rate fell 0.3 points with respect to 2023 and stood at 22.1% of the active population aged 16-24.

The number of employed people in Catalonia increased by 2.5% year-over-year and reached a mean value of 3,827,100 people, 632,800 of whom had an employment seniority of less than a year. The employment rate between the ages of 20 and 64 stood at 75.7% in 2024, 0.5 points more than the previous year.

The population aged 20-24 with secondary studies increased by 2.8 points and stood at 81.1%, whereas the population aged 30-34 with tertiary education grew 1.5 points compared with 2023 and stood at 58.4% (56.6% in the case of men and 60.3% in the case of women). The school dropout rate decreased by 1 point and affected 13.7% of the population aged 18-24. The percentage of the population aged 25-64 who studied increased by 1.9 points compared with 2023 and stood at 16.0%.

Idescat has published the summary of the 2024 Economically Active Population Survey, as well as the EU Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for Catalonia indicators with EPA source, which complements the results already published in the monographic section of this statistic.