According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the unemployment rate in the country was 12% in the quarter ending June 2019. Now, the total number of unemployed Brazilians is 12.8 million. The index fell 0.7% compared to the quarter between January and March and fell 0.4% compared to the same period last year. On the other hand, the number of self-employed workers hit a record of the historical series, which began in 2012, and reached 24.1 million. The number rose 1.6% from the previous quarter and 5% from the same period of 2018. Therefore, informality in Brazil remains very high by world standards.
The figure released by IBGE indicates that the number of discouraged and underutilized Brazilians has been attenuating the number of unemployed, which serves to mask the reality. If we add to this group the self-employed workers and those still receiving unemployment insurance even with this small increase in the number of employees in Brazil, the scenario remains practically stagnant.
The usual average income of the Brazilian population fell in the same period, reaching R$ 2,290, 1.3% less than in the previous quarter and without significant variation with the same period last year.
In the quarter ending June, Brazil had more than 28 million unemployed people and approximately 5 million despondent people, that is, those workers who gave up looking for work and therefore left unemployment statistics.
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