More than 5 million people have been looking for a job in Brazil for over a year according to IBGE

According to figures announced in the last hours by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 5.2 million unemployed have been seeking employment for more than a year in Brazil. These citizens represent 38.9% of the total unemployed in Brazil. Another 3.3 million people have been unemployed for two years or more (24.8%), up 9.8% over the first quarter of 2018. In addition, 6 million people are in the line of unemployment for more from one month to less than one year (45.4%), and 2.1 million have been seeking employment for less than a month. The number of unemployed in the country rose to 13.4 million in the first quarter of 2019 in Brazil.

According to the IBGE, unemployment increased in 14 of the 27 units of the federation in the first quarter. The largest women affected by this problem were women. While unemployment averaged 12.7% in the country, among women the rate was 14.9%. Among men, it was 10.9%. According to the survey, women were the majority in the working-age population in Brazil (52.4%), but they were also the largest (52.6%) of the unemployed population.