The unemployment rate in the quarter ended in July was 5.6%, the lowest since the historical series, started in 2012. In the previous mobile quarter, the rate was 5.8%. The data were released on Tuesday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
The country had 6,118 million people in late July, the smallest contingent since the last quarter of 2013 (6.1 million). The number of employed reached the record of 102.4 million.
The quarter was also marked by the record in the number of workers with a formal contract, 39.1 million.
With this data, the level of occupation – percentage of people occupied in the age population – maintained a record percentage of 58.8%.
According to William Kratochwill, research analyst, the quarter’s result supports the good moment of the job market.
“The market is warm, resilient, with characteristics of an expanding market. The stock of people outside the workforce has been decreasing,” he says.
The research of IBGE It investigates behavior in the job market for people 14 years or older and takes into account all forms of occupation, whether or without a signed, temporary and own portfolio, for example. It is only considered vacant the person who effectively seeks a vacancy. 211,000 households are visited in all states and the Federal District.
IBGE also makes a mapping of people who are outside the workforce, who It was 65.6 million, stable compared to the previous mobile quarter. The disadvantaged population, those who did not seek jobs because they thought they could not get a vacancy, retreated 11% in the quarter and reached 2.7 million people.
For Kratochwill, the indicators show that people who left the unemployed population “are not retreating from the workforce or falling in disincentive, They are really entering the job market”.
The survey shows that the occupation from May to July was pulled by three of the ten groups surveyed:
- agriculture, livestock, forest production, fishing and aquaculture: another 206 thousand people
- information, communication and financial, real estate, professional and administrative activities: 260,000 people
- Public Administration, Defense, Social Security, Education, Human Health and Social Services: 522 more people
Data analysis points out that the informality rate reached 37.8%. In the previous quarter, it was 38%. The July 2025 rate is the second lowest ever registered, second only to July 2020 (37.2%)when, in full pandemic, informal workers were the ones who suffered the most from unemployment, being expelled from the labor market, so the rate got lower at the time.
Despite the reduction of informality, the number of workers without formal bond, that is, without all labor guarantees, It was 38.8 million, surpassing that of the previous quarter (38.5 million). “As there was an increase in the population with formal employment, the informality rate fell,” he explains.
The IBGE analyst points out that this growth in the informal portion was not statistical significance.
Performance
The worker’s income in the quarter ended in July was R $ 3,484, the largest for the quarter. However, slightly below the three -month period ended in June (R $ 3,486).
The mass of income, which is the total income of the workers, reached R $ 352.3 billion, 2.5% above the second quarter.
Postponement
The original PNAD publication date of the quarter ended in July was August 29, but IBGE had to delay the disclosure in 18 days by technical problems.
