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

THE Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) announced this Friday (27) that the unemployment rate It stood at 5.8% in the quarter ending in February 2026. The current level is above the previous moving quarter (5.2%), but 1 percentage point lower compared to the moving quarter from December 2024 to February 2025. unemployed population The total number of people affected was 6.2 million, an increase compared to the September-November 2025 quarter (5.6 million). Compared to the same quarter of the previous year, there was a decrease of 14.8% (1.1 million fewer people). employed population The total was 102.1 million in the period, a decrease of 0.8% in the quarter (874,000 fewer people) and an increase of 1.5% in the year (1.5 million more). level of occupation (percentage of employed people in the working-age population) was 58.4%, a decrease of 0.6 pp in the quarter (59.0%), but an increase of 0.4 pp in the year (58.0%).

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.