From the second quarter of 2017, Brazil was the country of those included in the chart with the highest unemployment rates. However, it has been decreasing constantly since the second quarter of 2021, dropping below eight percent in the last quarter of 2022. In the same quarter, Japan had the lowest unemployment rate of the countries included.
Quarterly unemployment rates in developed and emerging countries from Q2 2017 to Q3 2022
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