In the other 20 states, the rate remained stable, with less significant fluctuations, either up or down. The unemployment rate in Brazil was 6.4% between July and September.
The unemployment rate in Brazil fell in 7 of the 27 federative units (UF) in the third quarter of 2024, according to the National Quarterly Continuous Household Sample Survey (PNAD), published this Friday (22) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. (IBGE).
In the other 20 states, the rate remained stable, with less significant fluctuations, either up or down.
The unemployment rate fell: Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Pernambuco, Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, Bahia
They had stability: Rio Grande do Norte, Distrito Federal, Sergipe, Amapá, Amazonas, Piauí, Paraíba, Alagoas, Maranhão, Acre, Pará, Ceará, Roraima, São Paulo, Goiás, Tocantins, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Paraná, Mato Grosso south
The states with the highest unemployment rates between July and September were:
Pernambuco, with a rate of 10.5%;
Bahia, with a rate of 9.7%;
Federal District, with a rate of 8.8%; and
Rio Grande do Norte, with a rate of 8.8%.
The states with the lowest unemployment rates were:
Santa Catarina, with a rate of 2.8%;
Mato Grosso, with a rate of 2.3%; and
Rondônia, with a rate of 2.1%.
Only six states recorded an unemployment rate lower than the general Brazilian average at the end of the third quarter, 6.4%.
Compared to the third quarter of 2023, there were 13 falls. See the distribution below.
The unemployment rate fell: Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais, Pará, São Paulo, Alagoas, Paraíba, Espírito Santo, Piauí, Río de Janeiro, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahía and Amapá
They had stability: Rio Grande do Norte, Distrito Federal, Sergipe, Amazonas, Maranhão, Acre, Roraima, Rio Grande do Sul, Goiás, Tocantins, Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso and Rondônia
Large regions
Among the main regions, the movement in the unemployment rate was as follows:
North: drop from 6.9% to 6.6%;
Northeast: fall from 9.4% to 8.7%;
Central-West: drop from 5.4% to 4.9%;
Southeast: drop from 6.6% to 6.2%;
South: drop from 4.7% to 4.1%.
Unemployment in Brazil
At the end of October, the IBGE reported that the unemployment rate for the third quarter, which runs from July to September, closed at 6.4%.
The result represented a drop of 0.5 percentage points (pp) compared to the second quarter of the year: between April and June, the rate was 6.9%.
The rate recorded in the third quarter of 2024 was the lowest in the historical series of the PNAD Continua, which began in 2012. It was surpassed only by that of the fourth quarter of 2013, when the unemployment rate was 6.3%.
With the results, the absolute number of unemployed fell 7.2% compared to the previous quarter, reaching 7 million people. Compared to the same quarter in 2023, the drop is 15.8%.
In the quarter ended in September, there was also a 1.2% increase in the employed population, estimated at 103 million people, a new record in the historical series that began in 2012. In the year, the increase was 3.2 %.
According to Adriana Beringuy, household survey coordinator at IBGE, the continuous growth of the employed population can be explained by the expansion of various economic activities, mainly starting in the second half of 2022, driven by the increase in family consumption.
In the division by sex, women continue to have a higher unemployment rate than men, but both decreased in the quarter.
Women’s unemployment rate: from 8.6% to 7.7%;
Male unemployment rate: from 5.6% to 5.3%.
By race, blacks and browns also have higher unemployment rates. In the quarter, rates fell in all divisions.
Whites: 5.5% to 5.0%;
Blacks: 8.5% to 7.6%;
Browns: 7.8% to 7.3%.
Income is stable
The employed received around R$ 3,227 per month in the quarter ending in September, for all the work they had in the reference week of the survey. This is what the IBGE calls usual average income.
The value remained stable compared to the previous quarter, when it was R$ 3,239. In the year-on-year comparison, there was an increase of 3.7%.
When divided by sex, men have an average real income of R$ 3,459, while women have an average income of R$ 2,697;
By state, only Bahía had a reduction in average real income, of 5.8%, while the others had stability;
Compared to the same quarter of 2023, 6 states had an increase: Espírito Santo (11.6%), Sergipe (9.5%), Maranhão (9.4%), Paraná (8.1%), Santa Catarina (5. 4%) and São Paulo (4.9%). Everyone else had stability.
