MADRID—Spain lost one million jobs between April and June, its biggest ever quarterly decline, as one of Europe’s strictest coronavirus lockdowns pulverised the tourism-dependent economy, official data showed on Tuesday.
The National Statistics Institute said unemployment rose from 14.41 percent the previous quarter to a two-year high of 15.33 percent—but that masked the extent of the crisis by leaving out people on furlough and those not meeting technical jobless criteria.
