(Reuters) -The number of people registering as jobless in Spain rose 0.91% in August from a month earlier, or by 21,905, leaving a total of 2.43 million people out of work, data from the Labour Ministry’s website showed on Tuesday.

Unemployment generally falls at the beginning of the summer as the tourism industry hires a lot of season workers and rises when the flow of tourists ebbs at the end of summer.

However, during August, the number of net formal jobs grew 29,836 to 21.67 million, on a calendar-adjusted and excluding seasonality, a separate report from the Social Security Ministry showed.

(Reporting by Marta Serafinko in Gdansk, editing by Inti Landauro)

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