Brazil: underemployment rate 2022

Overall, the share of underemployed people in Brazil has been decreasing since the third quarter of 2020, when it peaked at 30.4 percent. As of the second quarter of 2022, the underemployment rate in the South American country stood at 21.2 percent.

Compound underemployment rate in Brazil from 1st quarter 2015 to 2nd quarter of 2022

Characteristic	Underemployment rate
Q2 '22	21.2%
Q1 '22	23.2%
Q4 '21	24.3%
Q3 '21	26.5%
Q2 '21	28.5%
Q1 '21	29.6%
Q4 '20	28.8%
Q3 '20	30.4%
Q2 '20	29.3%
Q1 '20	24.4%
Q4 '19	23%
Q3 '19	24.1%
Q2 '19	24.8%
Q1 '19	25%
Q4 '18	29.3%
Q3 '18	24.2%
Q2 '18	24.6%
Q1 '18	24.7%
Q4 '17	23.6%
Q3 '17	23.9%
Q2 '17	23.8%
Q1 '17	24.1%
Q4 '16	22.3%
Q3 '16	21.3%
Q2 '16	20.9%
Q1 '16	19.4%
Q4 '15	17.4%
Q3 '15	18.1%
Q2 '15	17.3%
Q1 '15	16.6%

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2022

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Brazil

Survey time period

Q1 2015 to Q2 2022

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the compound underemployment rate is made of the share of unemployed people, the share of underemployed people due to insufficient hours of work and the share of people in the potential labor force.

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