Overview

• In May, Andalusian enterprises registered with Social Security climbed to 254,174, marking a 1.55% year-on-year increase versus a 0.53% rise nationally.
• Companies with 250 or more employees drove the strongest growth in registrations with a 6.9% year-on-year gain.
• Worker affiliations in the region expanded by 4.2%, surpassing Spain’s national increase of 3.7%, according to IECA data.
• Jaén (2.5%), Málaga (2.0%) and Córdoba (2.0%) posted the highest province-level gains in new business registrations.
• Extraterritorial organizations (16.2%), arts and entertainment (5.5%) and financial and insurance activities (5.2%) led sectoral growth while extractives, domestic household employers and manufacturing recorded declines.