The unemployment rate in the quarter ending in November was 5.2%, according to data released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). 
This is the lowest unemployment rate since 2012, measured by the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Pnad).
According to IBGE, From September to November, 5.6 million people were unemployed, the lowest number of unemployed people ever recorded by the survey.
Throughout the historical series, the largest number of unemployed people occurred in the quarter ending in March 2021, the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when this indicator registered 14.9 million people without formal employment.
Occupation
According to IBGE, the lowest unemployment in the historical series was also accompanied by a new record in the number of employed people in the country: 103.2 million.
The employment level, that is, the proportion of people aged 14 or over who were working, reached the highest percentage in the Continuous PNAD historical series: 59.0%.
