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Brazil unemployment rate

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Key data points


Last release
Observation period
Sep 2024
Next release
Forecast
Highest
14.70% on Apr 30, 2021
Lowest
6.20% on Dec 31, 2013

About Brazil unemployment rate


Category
Labor
Frequency
Monthly
Units
%
In Brazil, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.

Frequently Asked Questions


To calculate Brazil unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Brazil unemployment rate is 6.20%.
The highest figure Brazil unemployment rate has ever reached is 14.70%.
Last month Brazil unemployment rate was 6.40%, and the month before that it amounted to 6.60%.