The Basque economy has grown 2.2% since last year
Employment has increased by 1.4 per cent in the second quarter, according to Eustat data. Compared to the first quarter, both GDP (0.5 per cent) and employment (0.3 per cent) have increased.
Worker in a factory.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of the Basque Country grew by 2.2% in the second quarter of the year compared with the same period last year, and employment also increased by more than 13,000 jobs.
Eustat, which published the progress of its second quarter economic accounts on Wednesday, has pointed out that, according to economic information available at the time of this progress, the increase in GDP has mainly been based on the evolution of the services sector.
If you compare the data with those of the first quarter of the year, the increase is 0.5%.
Employment has also increased from April to June by 1.4 per cent, measured as full-time equivalent jobs and estimated at 13,000 more jobs in the second quarter than in the previous quarter, with an increase of 0.3 per cent over the previous quarter.
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