Employment Rate / Brazil
Brazil Employment Rate
Brazil employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 59.37%.
COUNTRY: Brazil
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-18 03:30:08
GM ECONOMY RATING
Brazil · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
63 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
7.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
10.6 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
5.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Brazil · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
59.37%
Previous
59.03%
Range avg.
56.72%
Rank
45
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59.37%2025 · Rank 45
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Brazil recorded 59.37% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.34 percentage points, from 59.03% to 59.37%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (56.72%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 52.20% in 2020 and the high was 59.37% in 2025.
Comparison
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