THE Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) announced this Friday (26) that the unemployment rate It stood at 5.6% in the moving quarter ending in May 2026. The current level is in line with that recorded in the previous moving quarter and 0.6 percentage points lower compared to the same period last year (6.6%). unemployed population The total number of unemployed people was 6.1 million, remaining stable compared to the quarter from December 2025 to February 2026 (6.2 million). Compared to the same quarter of the previous year (6.7 million), there was a decrease of 9.3% (624,000 fewer people). employed population The total reached 102.7 million in the period, an increase of 0.5% in the quarter (an additional 558,000 people) and 0.8% in the year (an additional 840,000). level of occupation (percentage of employed people in the working-age population) was 58.6%, with a variation of 0.2 in the quarter (58.4%) and remaining stable year-on-year (58.6%).
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