eli5 Why is Spain’s unemployment rate so high?

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Spain’s unemployment rate has been significantly higher than the rest of the EU for decades. Recently it has dropped down to 11-12% but it has also had long stints of being 20%+ over the past two decades. Spain seems like it has a great geographical position, stable government, educated population with good social cohesion, so why is the unemployment rate so eye poppingly high?

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As mentioned before Spain mostly relies on tourism and isn’t manufacturing country as not much has a label made in Spain and in there are the jobs

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