Brazil
Unemployment rate
The unemployment rate measures the share of the labor force actively looking for work but not employed. It is a lagging but essential gauge of labor-market slack.
Unemployment Rate - Brazil
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The reading right now
As of January 2025, Unemployment rate for Brazil stood at 5.97%. That is down 0.83 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 8.62%, ranging from a low of 5.97% in January 2025 to a high of 13.2% in January 2021. The current reading sits 4.6 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of 10.5%.
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