In Brazil, the scourge of unemployment, for many people, has been replaced by that of depression. More and more Brazilians are becoming mentally ill. Since 2017, according to WHO, Brazil has the highest rate of anxiety disorder in the world. The country also has a population depression rate among the highest five on the planet.
Atualmente, o Brasil está passando por crises de depressão e ansiedade. A população brasileira é a mais ansiosa e estressada da América Latina, segundo a Organização Mundial de Saúde. 9,3% da população brasileira sofre de transtornos de ansiedade.
In the current economic crisis that affects Brazil, this situation only worsens. Compared with the rest of the world, the Brazilian people are the ones who rely less on returning to work. According to a survey by consultancy Michael Page disclosed by the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, 60% of Brazilians expect to return to the market in three months. This percentage is lower than Turkish, Portuguese and Italian workers, for example - the global average is 64%. As for salary increase, Brazil is also less confident: it ranked 21st among 37 countries, with 59% positive responses, and below the global average (61%).
This sentiment occurs even after the unemployment rate in Brazil fell to 12.5% in the quarter ended in April of 2019, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). This is a slight decrease compared to the rate of 12.7% recorded in the quarter ended in March.
The problem is that this drop is very small when we think about the universe of unemployed people in Brazil. Currently, unemployment still reaches 13.2 million people in the country. Despite the decline, the underutilized population - a group that brings together the unemployed, those who are underemployed (less than 40 hours a week worked), the discouraged (who gave up looking for work) and those who might be employed, but do not work for different reasons – reached 28.4 million, a record number of the historical series started in 2012.
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