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Brazil: Unemployment, total (% of labor force)

5.97percent · 2025-30.1% since 2015

Share of the labor force without work. Annual figures for Brazil from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20255.97
20246.801
20237.947
20229.231
202113.158
202013.697
201911.936
201812.329
201712.792
201611.58
20158.538
20146.755
20137.071
20127.251
20117.578
20108.42
20099.419
20088.268
20079.28
20069.692
200510.551
200410.072
200311.168
200210.641
200110.649
200010.889
199911.125
199810.15
19979.003
19968.035
19957.092
19946.579
19936.03
19927.086
19916.887

Source

Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Unemployment, total (% of labor force). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-unemployment (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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