Spain's unemployment rises to 14.4 pct in first quarter

Spain's unemployment rate rose to 14.4 percent in the first quarter of the year, data from the National Statistics Institute showed on Tuesday, as a result of the lockdown imposed in mid-March to slow the coronavirus pandemic.

The jobless rate in the first quarter compared with 13.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019 and a forecast of 15.6 percent by economists polled by Reuters.

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