Rio de Janeiro – The unemployment rate in Brazil from December of last year to February of this year reached 13.2%, an increase of 1.3 percentage point against the previous quarter. The results show that the country’s unemployed population reached 13.5 million people, a new record of both the rate and the number of unemployed in the historical series that started in 2012.
The data is part of the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua), made public this Friday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). In comparison to the same period of last year, the unemployment rate increased 2.9 percentage points.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani