IBGE: Unemployment rate stands at 6.1% in the quarter ending in March.

THE Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) announced this Friday (30) that the unemployment rate It stood at 6.1% in the quarter ending in March 2026. The current level is above the previous moving quarter (5.1%), but 0.9 percentage points lower compared to the same period last year. This was the lowest rate for a quarter ending in March in the historical series of the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD), which began in 2012. unemployed population The total number of unemployed people was 6.6 million, an increase of 19.6% compared to the October-December 2025 quarter (5.5 million). Compared to the same quarter last year, there was a decrease of 13.0% (987,000 fewer people). employed population The total was 102.0 million in the period, a decrease of 1.0% in the quarter (1.0 million fewer people), but 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 58.2%, a decrease of 0.7 pp in the quarter (58.9%), but an increase of 0.4 pp in the year (57.8%).

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