The Government of Andorra’s department of Statistics has published the figures on the active population for 2017 showing the average unemployment rate in the country was 2.4%. This was the lowest figure in the last eight years and is much lower than results of the neighboring countries (Spain 17.2% and France 9.4%). The average of European Union countries is (7.6%).
The figures emphasize that 86.9% of the unemployed are of short term, and 97.7% have previously worked and have left work voluntarily. The most searched for jobs are: administrative (21.6%), domestic workers and cleaning staff (11.7%) and retail employees (10.6%).