Rio de Janeiro – There are 12.1 million unemployed persons in Brazil, a figure equivalent to 11.9% of working-age citizens in the three months ended November. The unemployment rate and the number of jobless people are the highest since the Continuous National Household Sampling Survey (Pnad Contínua) was first released, in 2012.
The numbers were made public this Thursday (29) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and are similar to those of the preceding three-month period (June to August), when the rate was 11.8%. The unemployment rate is up 2.9 percentage points from September to November 2015.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
