The number of Spanish jobseekers rose for the eighth month in a row in March to hit a record 4.75 million.
The Labour Ministry said the number of people registered as jobless rose by 38,769 with the services sector seeing the greatest number of jobs lost.
The jobless rate in Spain stood at 23.6% in February, according to EU figures released on Monday.
The situation is even worse for young Spaniards as youth unemployment is running at 50%.
Spain has the highest unemployment rate in the European Union and it is expected to rise further this year.
The government hopes that reform to the labour market will help ease the problem.
Its measures include cutting back on severance pay and restricting inflation-linked salary increases.
But those measures have angered unions, who organised a general strike last Thursday.
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