Unemployment slips to 13% in Q2

The unemployment rate was 0.7 percentage points down from the previous

Published on 28/07/2017 - 13:25 By Nielmar de Oliveira reports from Agência Brasil - Rio de Janeiro

Brazil's unemployment rate slipped to 13% in the second quarter of this year (April-June), the first significant drop since the end of 2014 (0.7 percentage points compared to the previous quarter ending in March). A year before, the unemployment rate was 11.3% of the country's economically active population (considering the potential workforce of the productive sector, ie both employed and unemployed people).

The figure is part of the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD), published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in Rio today (July 28).

The unemployed population at the close of the second quarter 2017 was 13.5 million people, 4.9% (690,000 people) down from the previous moving quarter, but 16.4% up from the second quarter 2016.

The IBGE also reported the employed population was 90.2 million in the second quarter, reflecting a 1.4% growth—which means 1.3 million people entered the labor market compared to January-March 2017.

Under the IBGE's terms and definitions, the employed population is the people who worked in a given period, or were in employment but did not work (eg. employees on holiday).


Translated by Mayra Borges


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