Brazil: Unemployment rate reaches 5.2%, lowest since 2012


This is the lowest rate since 2012, as measured by the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Continuous Pnad).
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Throughout the historical series, the largest contingent of unemployed occurred in the quarter ending in March 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when this indicator registered 14.9 million people without formal employment.
Employment
The lowest unemployment rate in the historical series was also accompanied by a new record in employment in the country, at 103.2 million, IBGE data show.
The employment level - that is, the proportion of people aged 14 or older who were working - reached the highest percentage in the historical series of the Continuous Pnad: 59.0 percent.












