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Statistics on Disability in the Labour Market. EPD (Year 2024), WPD (Year 2023), and SWLPD (Year 2023) 12 December 2025

The labour force participation rate of people with disabilities (16-64 years old) fell by 0.1 points in 2024 to 35.4%. The employment rate rose 0.4 points to 28.9%, while the unemployment rate fell 1.2 points to stand at 18.5%. The average gross annual salary of workers with disabilities reached 23,159.7 euros in 2023, 5.1% higher than 2022. This figure represented 82.1% of the average salary of workers without disabilities (28,207.8 euros).

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Employment of Persons with Disabilities - Year 2024
Indicator Note Value Variation
Economic activity rate 35.4 -0.1
Employment rate 28.9 0.4
Unemployment Rate 18.5 -1.2
  • Value as a percentage. Variation: difference as compared to the rate of the same period of the previous year
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Year 2024 Published: 12/12/2025
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Employment of persons with disabilities is an annually statistical operation whose object is to obtain data on labour force (employed, unemployed) and the population that is not part of the labour market (economically inactive population) in the group of pesons aged between 16 and 64 who have a officially recognised disability.

This transaction is the result of a Collaboration Agreement between the INE, IMSERSO, Directorate General for the Coordination of Sectoral Policy for Disabilities, the Spanish Committee of Disabled People's Representatives (CERMI) and the ONCE Foundation. When preparing it, the information used comes from the integration of data from Economically Active Population Survey (EAPS) with the administrative data registered in the State Database of Persons with Disabilities (SDPD) and others sources (Tesorería General de la Seguridad Social (TGSS), Registro de Prestaciones Sociales Públicas del Instituto Nacional de Seguridad Social (INSS) and Sistema para la Autonomía y Atención a la Dependencia (SAAD)).