IBGE: Unemployment rate stands at 5.8% in the quarter ending in April.

THE Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) announced this Thursday (28) that the unemployment rate It stood at 5.8% in the quarter ending in April 2026. The current level is above the previous moving quarter (5.4%), but 0.8 percentage points lower compared to the same period last year (6.6%). unemployed population The total number of unemployed people was 6.3 million, an increase of 8.0% compared to the quarter from November 2025 to January 2026 (5.9 million). However, compared to the same quarter last year, there was a decrease of 11.3% (809,000 fewer people). employed population The total was 102.3 million in the period, a decrease of 0.3% in the quarter (338,000 fewer people), but an increase of 1.1% in the year (1.07 million more). level of occupation (percentage of employed people in the working-age population) was 58.4%, a decrease of 0.3 pp in the quarter (58.7%), but stable compared to the same quarter of the previous year.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.