Brazil's unemployment rate falls to 7.5% in September-November period

Unemployed population stands at 8.2M, according to official data

By Ovunc Kutlu

ISTANBUL (AA) - Brazil's unemployment rate fell to 7.5% during the September-November period, according to data released Friday by the Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

The figure is a 0.3 percentage point decrease from the preceding three-month period of June-August when it stood at 7.8%.

It has been the lowest unemployment rate since the quarter ending in February 2015, when it stood at 7.5%, according to IBGE.

The latest figure is also a decline of 0.6 percentage points compared to the same period last year, when it was recorded at 8.1%.

In the September-November period this year, the number of unemployed population stood at 8.2 million.

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