Brazil Unemployment Rate
The share of people aged 15 and over who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one.
6.0%
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1991 to 2025
Source: World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · % of total labor force, annual.
Brazil Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Brazil, the unemployment rate fell by 0.8pp in 2025, from 6.8% in 2024.
That is the lowest reading in a record that starts in 1991.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 6.0% in 2025 to 13.7% in 2020.
Its average since 1991 is 9.2%, and the latest reading is below that.
Brazil is 23rd of 62 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- World Bank
- Series
- SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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