Brazil reaches the lowest unemployment rate in history and income for rural workers increases.

The sectors of agriculture, livestock, forestry production, fishing, and aquaculture registered the highest growth in average monthly real income among the activity groups, with a 7.3% increase (equivalent to more than R$ 157) compared to the same quarter of 2024. The data are from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua), from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). With the boost from the sector, the real usual income of all jobs (R$ 3,574) was a record, with increases of 1.8% in the quarter and 4.5% in the year. The mass of real usual income (R$ 363.7 billion) was also a record, with an increase of 2.5% (more R$ 9.0 billion) in the quarter and 5.8% (more R$ 19.9 billion) in the year. The survey also showed that the unemployment rate in Brazil reached 5.2% of the workforce, the lowest level since the beginning of the historical series in 2012. In the period from September to November, the PNAD Contínua identified 5.644 million people ...