Of the total of people employed, the proportion of people laid off because of the pandemic shrank from 14.2 to 8.3 percent.
The figures show that the percentage rose above the 12.3 percent reported in the previous week (11.5 million).
The average unemployment rate in Brazil fell to 11.9 percent in 2019, below 2018’s 12.3 percent.
The figures com from the Continuous PNAD (National Household Sample Survey), published today (Jan. 31) by the country’s government statistics agency IBGE.
The number of people in Brazil who found an informal job in the quarter ending in September reached a new record in this time series, initiated in 2012: 41.4 percent of the country’s employed workforce.