Brazilian unemployment fell to a record low of 6% for the month of September, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The index is 0.2 percentage points lower than September 2010.In comparison to August 2011, the rate remained stable at 6%. There are now approximately 1.45 million unemployed people in Brazil.
In the metropolitan area of Recife, capital of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, unemployment fell by 2.4 percentage points, from 8.8% to 6.4%.
27 October 2011