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Unemployment rate in Brazil

How hard is it to have a job there?

Brazil's unemployment rate is 5.97 % — #74 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

5.97%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Brazil over time

13.70 %9.83 %5.97 %13.70 % · 20202000: 10.89 %2001: 10.65 %2002: 10.64 %2003: 11.17 %2004: 10.07 %2005: 10.55 %2006: 9.69 %2007: 9.28 %2008: 8.27 %2009: 9.42 %2010: 8.42 %2011: 7.58 %2012: 7.25 %2013: 7.07 %2014: 6.75 %2015: 8.54 %2016: 11.58 %2017: 12.79 %2018: 12.33 %2019: 11.94 %2020: 13.70 %2021: 13.16 %2022: 9.23 %2023: 7.95 %2024: 6.80 %2025: 5.97 %2000201220255.97 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#74 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
40 %
50 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.83 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
7.73 pp
peak 13.70 % in 2020
Full series
▼ 4.92 pp
since 2000

In Americas: #13 of 27vs median 5.25 %: +0.71 pp (worse)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Brazil: ahead of 40 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentBrazil 5.97 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Brazil is ahead of 40 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Brazil
72 Belgium5.91 %−0.06 pp
73 Zambia5.92 %−0.05 pp
74 Brazil5.97 %—
75 Puerto Rico5.99 %+0.02 pp
76 Romania5.99 %+0.02 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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