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Brazil’s unemployment rate down to 12% this quarter
Unemployed people looking for a job for at least two years total 25%
Published on 15/08/2019 - 14:15 By Vitor Abdala - Rio de Janeiro
In the second quarter this year, Brazil’s unemployment rate sank to 12 percent—lower than the first quarter’s 12.7 percent and the 12.4 percent reported in the second quarter of 2018.
The value was seen to do go down in all Brazilian states from the first to the second quarter, as per data released today (Aug 15) by the government’s statistics agency IBGE.
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A total of 3.35 million unemployed people in Brazil have been looking for a job for at least two years. This accounts for 26.2 percent of the country’s total jobless people.
In the second quarter of 2018, the number of unemployed Brazilians looking for a job for at least two years added up to 3.15 million.
Translation: Fabrício Ferreira - Edition: Graça Adjuto / Narjara Carvalho
