Jobs mean income, dignity and spending that keeps the economy moving. Brazil's statistics agency has measured unemployment since 2012: it peaked at 14.9% in 2020–2021 and hit a low of 5.1% at the end of 2025.
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- Taxa de desemprego fica em 11,1% no trimestre até março, revela IBGEIBGE's revised series shows 14.9% unemployment in Q1 2021.Read the story
- Desemprego atinge a maior marca desde 2012, aponta IBGEUnemployment hit the record of the IBGE series in the quarter to March 2021.Read the story
- Taxa de desemprego é a menor desde 2015, e número de pessoas trabalhando no Brasil bate recordeThe article recalls that unemployment reached 14.9% in March 2021.Read the story
Sources
Where the data on this page comes from.
- Agência Brasil (dados do IBGE)
Unemployment at 5.2% in Q3 2026; record low of 5.1% at the end of 2025 and a peak of 14.9% in 2020–2021.
- IBGE
Continuous PNAD survey: quarterly unemployment series since 2012.