Weekly Report - 02 April 2026 (WR-26-13)

TRACKING TRENDS

BRAZIL & SOUTHERN CONE by Abbi Dicker 02 April 2026 1129 views

BRAZIL | Unemployment ticks up. The national statistics institute (Ibge) reported on 27 March that Brazil’s unemployment rate in the rolling quarter of December 2025-February 2026 stood at 5.8%, equivalent to 6.2m unemployed people. This marks an increase from the jobless rate of 5.4% in the November-January rolling quarter and from 5.2% in September-November, although it is down from 6.8% in the December 2024-February 2025 quarter.

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