30 Jan Pharmaceutical spending in the Canary Islands increases in December

By Instituto Canario de Estadística, (ISTAC), del Gobierno de Canarias Regarding the same month of 2024, spending on drugs has increased 7,76 por ciento. Entonces la
cantidad de gasto farmacéutico se contabilizó en 56,52 millones de euros.

En diciembre del pasado año se facturaron un total de 5,2 millones de envases de fármacos. La
cantidad es significativamente mayor a la del mes de noviembre (a 3,94 por ciento), y también
over the same month of 2024, con un incremento del 8,87%. El gasto medio por cada envase
dispensado fue de 11,51 euros, una cifra ligeramente inferior a la que se ha dado en los últimos
meses.

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29 Jan Las ventas al por menor en Canarias aumentaron un 2,8% on December 2025 con respecto al mismo mes de 2024

By Instituto Canario de Estadística, (ISTAC), del Gobierno de Canarias Canarias se sitúa en la antepenúltima posición dentro del ránking de variaciones de este índice
(2,8%). The greatest variations took place in Ceuta (9,6%), Murcia (8,0%) and Melilla (7,6%). Por
other side, las menores variaciones por debajo de Canarias (2,8%) se produjeron en Baleares (1,7%) and
Navarra (-0,2%). Taking into account the evolution of sales by groups in the Canary Islands, these went up a
2,4% en alimentación y un 4,1% en el resto.

Por su parte, employment in Canarian retail trade has increased by 1,0% in the last twelve
meses, while at the national level it has increased 0,8%. En este concepto, Canarias (1,0%) this
posicionada en la décima posición entre el conjunto de comunidades y ciudades autónomas. Las mayores
variaciones tuvieron lugar en Melilla (3,5%), Ceuta (3,2%) and Asturias (2,5%), while the
menores tasas de variación se han dado en País Vasco (-0,9%), Aragon (-0,3%) and La Rioja (0,2%).

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27 Jan Occupancy rises in the Canary Islands in the fourth quarter of 2025

By Instituto Canario de Estadística, (ISTAC), del Gobierno de Canarias La ocupación más en mujeres que en hombres. En este trimestre hubo 22.100 mujeres más con empleo que
in the previous quarter, while the increase in men was 13.100. El número de personas
asalariadas subió en unas 28.000 people, leaving the figure at 899.200. El colectivo de personas
ocupadas por cuenta propia subió un 5,6%, standing in 144.400 people

La contratación indefinida aumentó en 15.900 personas y la contratación temporal en 12.100. La tasa
de temporalidad se situó en el 17,2%, un poco mayor que en el trimestre anterior. Por sexos, la
temporalidad sigue siendo mayor en mujeres (19,6%) que en hombres (15%).

By economic sectors, la ocupación subió en industria y en servicios y bajó en agricultura y
building.

The number of unemployed people decreased 21.300 y la tasa de paro se sitúa en el 12,6%. in men, la
tasa de paro bajó hasta el 11,6% y en mujeres hasta el 14,3%.

Un poco más de 4 decade 5 hogares (81,3%) tiene a todos sus miembros activos con empleo, mientras
que el 7,2% has all its active members unemployed.

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23 Jan The number of passengers who used the ports of the Canary Islands increases in November

By Instituto Canario de Estadística, (ISTAC), del Gobierno de Canarias In the month of November a total of 630.725 Cruise passengers used the ports of the Canary Islands.
The data of 2024 was 644.722 people. The ports of Los Cristianos and La Estaca were the ones that
greatest increase showed, while that of Puerto del Rosario presented a drop in 28,1%.

Regarding regular traffic, The ports of Los Cristianos and Santa Cruz de Tenerife were
those that had a greater movement of travelers. The first of them recorded the passage of 1 decade
3 travelers who used these infrastructures. Por su parte, the ports with the greatest increase in
travelers were La Estaca, con un aumento del 16,9% and the Christians, con 15,9% more than travelers.

The number of TEUS containers (the most standardized measure worldwide) who went through the
ports of the Canary Islands in November was a 25,2 percent higher than in the same month of 2024. En
total were 164.999 containers those that were accounted for by 131.820 November 2024.

The Port of La Luz and Las Palmas is the one with the highest volume of entry and exit of
containers. In the Canary Islands, 7 decade 10 containers that are moved do so from this facility.
Compared to the previous year, aumentó un 33,1 percent container movement in this
puerto.

Regarding vehicle traffic, During the month of November it increased by 0,1% with respect to the same
month of the previous year. This year they were 188.490 the vehicles that used the State Ports in
Canarias, for the 188.282 that was in November 2024.

The data collected in this information refers exclusively to the eleven Ports of the
State that exists in the Canary Islands. These are the facilities of: Reef, The Rosary, lighter, La
Light and Las Palmas, Salinetas, Passion fruit, The Christians, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, San Sebastian
La Gomera, Santa Cruz de la Palma and La Estaca. There are other port facilities that depend on the
Government of the Canary Islands, as is the case of the Puerto de Las Nieves, Corralejo, Playa Blanca or Morro
Jable.

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23 Jan Jin rivers, trades, San Sebastián and El Lasso are the neighborhoods with the highest unemployment rate recorded in the fourth quarter of 2025

By Instituto Canario de Estadística, (ISTAC), del Gobierno de Canarias On the opposite side, The neighborhoods with the lowest registered unemployment rates are El Cable (5%) and the
Concha (4,8) in Reef, On Date (4,4%) and La Minilla (6,2%) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las
Casas (4,4) and the old houses (6,5%) in Arona and Anaga Urbanization (4%) and Miramar (5,4%) in Santa
Cross of Tenerife.

These data come from the Registered Active Population Statistics (EPA-Reg) published by
the Canarian Institute of Statistics (ISTAC), prepared in collaboration with the Canarian Service of
job. In contrast to other employment-related operations, the sources of obtaining
Data for EPA-Reg are integrated administrative records, so you can study the market
labor and obtain territorially disaggregated data at even the submunicipal level. At the moment
Employment data by neighborhood is only available for the municipalities of Santa Cruz de
Tenerife, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Reef and Arona.

At municipal level, and as usual, Yaiza and Pájara are the municipalities with the lowest rate of
unemployment recorded in the fourth quarter of 2025, municipalities that belong to Lanzarote and
Fuerteventura. Both islands have unemployment rates below 9%. further, in them are found
the five municipalities with the lowest unemployment rate in the entire Canary Islands, headed by Yaiza, that with a
5,9% has the lowest rate, followed by Pájara (6,5%), Teguise (7,1%), Aunts (7,3%) and Tinajo (7,5%).

In the opposite case, The islands with the highest registered unemployment rate are La Palma (15,6%) and great
Canaria (14,8%). At the municipal level, Tazacorte (21,1%) It is the municipality that has the largest
tasa, followed by Garafía (20,1%), Agaete (18,7%), Moya (18,3%) and El Paso (17,9%).

At a general level, The lowest registered unemployment rates are found in the two largest islands.
oriental, and in the southern areas of Gran Canaria and Tenerife.

If we consider the registered unemployment rates for men and women, en el cuarto trimestre de
2025 rates for women are higher than those for men. The greatest inequalities in this rate are
they give in La Palma with 4,8 percentage points difference, seguida de Gran Canaria con 4,2 puntos.

If we compare with a year ago, The number of registered employed people increased on all the islands. El
average annual growth in employment in the Canary Islands was 2,6%. Above this growth
We found El Hierro (6,2%), Fuerteventura (3,8%) y Tenerife (3%)

Por otra parte, Registered unemployment fell in one year by 6,7% in the Canary Islands, decreasing in all
the islands.

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22 Jan Imports in value in the Canary Islands until November 2025 recorded a drop in 1,0% about 2024

By Instituto Canario de Estadística, (ISTAC), del Gobierno de Canarias Por otra parte, y también provisionalmente, el total de exportaciones es de 3.837,176 millones de
euros and the rate of variation with respect to 2024 es del 15,9%. The trade deficit reaches
16.587,659 millones de euros y la tasa de cobertura, que se calcula como el cociente entre el total
de exportaciones y el de importaciones, take the value 18,8%.

Un 29,6% of imports made in November 2025 were machinery and equipment
transporte. Imports of food-related products also stand out. (22,2%)
and various manufactured articles (15,3%). El 77,6% of imports came from the rest
from Spain, mientras que el 13,9% were made from the rest of the EU-27_2020. El 92,9% they proceeded
from the whole of Europe and other 3,1% from Asia.

En cuanto a las exportaciones, el 44,8% corresponded to oil and its derivatives, el 11,0% a
products related to food and 10,5% to machinery and transport equipment. El 23,4%
of exports were destined for the rest of Spain, el 34,8% the rest of the EU-27_2020,
el 64,3% Europe and other 3,7% Africa.

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