Rio de Janeiro – The unemployment rate closed last year’s Q4 in 9% throughout Brazil, the highest rate of the historical series that begun in 2012, but also showing stability over the 8.9% of the rate registered in Q3 2015. The data was released this Tuesday (15) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). In Q4 2014, the rate stood at 6.5%.
According to IBGE, at the end of Q4 2015, the unemployed population in the country registered at 9.1 million people, remaining statistically stable over the previous quarter, but increasing 40.8% (or 2.6 million people more) over the same quarter in 2014. According to IBGE, this was the highest increase of the unemployed over the same quarter of a previous year in all the historical series.
On the other hand, the survey shows that the country had, at the end of Q4 2015, 92.3 million unemployed people, statistically signaling stability over the previous quarter, but declining 0.6% (or less than 600,000 people) over Q4 2014.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
