IBGE: Unemployment rate stands at 5.4% in the quarter ending in June.

THE Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) announced this Thursday (30) that the unemployment rate It stood at 5.4% in the moving quarter ending in June 2026. The current level is 0.7 percentage points lower compared to the quarter from January to March 2026 (6.1%) and 0.4 pp lower compared to the same period last year (5.8%). unemployed population The total number of people reported was 5.9 million, a decline of 10.9% – or 718,000 people – compared to the previous three months (6.6 million). Compared to the same quarter of the previous year (6.3 million), there was a decrease of 6.3% (392,000 fewer people). employed population The total reached 103.1 million in the period, an increase of 1.1% in the quarter (an additional 1.081 million people) and 0.7% in the year (an additional 742,000). level of occupation (percentage of employed people in the working-age population) was 58.8%, with a positive variation of 0.5 pp in the quarter (58.2%) and remaining stable year-on-year (58.8%).

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.