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Unemployment Falls to 5.3% in the Quarter Ended in August, Says IBGE

The unemployment rate in Brazil was 5.3% in the mobile quarter closed in August 2026. The index declined 0.3 percentage point in comparison with the same period of 2025, when it was 5.6%. The data were released this Tuesday (29) by the IBGE's Pnad Continua. There were 5.8 million unemployed people. The number [...]

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Employment grew with the entry of 774,000 people in the labour market, pulled by employment with a portfolio in industry and construction

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The Brazilian labor market recorded the best performance for a quarter closed in August in 14 years, with the unemployment rate falling to 5.3%.

Unemployment rate in Brazil stood at 5.3% in the quarter to August, with a lower rate since 2012. Read more in the Tribuna do Paraná.

With a decrease of 0.3% in the quarterly comparison, the country recorded a reduction in the number of unemployed.

The unemployment rate in Brazil was 5.3% in the quarter ended in August, according to data from the National Survey by Continuous Household Sample (Pnad Continua) released on Tuesday (29), by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The result was equal to the median of the expectations of analysts heard by the Broadcast Projections, [...] The post Unemployment rate is 5.3% in the quarter until August, reveals IBGE first appea…

Brazil reaches 103.5 million employed workers, the largest number in the historical series, as a contingent of unemployed falls to 5.8 million

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Folha de S.Paulo broke the news in São Paulo, Brazil on Tuesday, September 29, 2026.
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