Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Apr 2024
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
14.70% on Apr 30, 2021
Lowest
6.20% on Dec 31, 2013
About Brazil unemployment rate
In Brazil, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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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 7.50%, and the month before that it amounted to 7.90%.