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Brazil: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1984–2025 · 42 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
6.03%percent
Change on 2024
−0.9 pointsfrom 6.93%
Average, 2016–2025
10.6%10 years
Record high and low
13.8% (2020)low 2.40% (1986)

Unemployment rate

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2%4%6%8%10%12%14%19902000201020202030BrazilBrazil
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20317.40Forecast
20307.40Forecast
20297.40Forecast
20287.40Forecast
20277.38Forecast
20266.47Forecast
20256.03
20246.93
20237.97
20229.25
202113.2
202013.8
201912.0
201812.4
201712.9
201611.6

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1984–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1991–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • International Labour Organization2001–2023
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2013–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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