Brazil: Working population is the highest since 2012

The quarter ended in June with an occupied population of 98 million people in Brazil. The estimate is from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

According to the agency, the number is the highest in the historical series, which began in 2012.

Compared to the previous quarter’s projection, this contingent grew by about 3%. In the comparison between June 2022 and the same period last year, the growth in the employed population is practically 9 million workers.

Brazil’s occupied labor level is approximately 57% of the population, according to the institute.

“In this second quarter, there was a resumption of growth in the number of self-employed workers without CNPJ, which had fallen in the first quarter,” said Adriana Beringuy, coordinator of IBGE’s Household Sample Surveys.

“Besides this, other main categories of informality, which are employees without a labor card in the private sector and domestic workers without a labor card, continued to increase.

Adriana also informs that the growth of the employed population occurred in a disseminated way. That is: in several areas of the productive sector.

“Among them, the highlights were commerce (3.4%), industry (2.7%), and public administration, defense, social security, education, human health and social services (4.5%),” she commented.

With information from Oeste

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