Madrid, December 26 (RHC)-- A report released by Spain’s Ministry of Employment and Social Security shows that the number of Spaniards without a job has reached 4.18 million.

According to the ministry’s report, the month-on-month rise in registered jobless numbers stands at 82,327. The main cause for the resurgence in the country’s unemployment has been given as reduction in job opportunities available in Spain’s tourism, fishing and agriculture sectors.

In the meantime, Spain’s national statistics office, INE, says a total of 4.85 million people have been out of work at the end of the third quarter of this year, which accounts for 21.18 percent of the country’s working-age population.