The youth unemployment rate in Brazil stood at 17.95 percent in 2024. Between 1991 and 2024, the youth unemployment rate rose by 5.19 percentage points, though the increase followed an uneven trajectory rather than a consistent upward trend.

In the second quarter of 2024, the youth unemployment rate in Brazil reached its highest level in the Northeast region, where 19.3 percent of people aged 18 to 24 were unemployed. In the South, on the other hand, the youth unemployment rate reached only 9.1 percent.

Unemployment, youth total (% of total labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate) in Brazil was reported at 17.96 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Brazil - Unemployment, youth total (% of total labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on September of 2025.

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Brazil: Youth unemployment, ages 15-24: The latest value from 2024 is 17.95 percent, an increase from 17.94 percent in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 15.70 percent, based on data from 176 countries. Historically, the average for Brazil from 1991 to 2024 is 19.44 percent. The minimum value, 11.41 percent, was reached in 1993 while the maximum of 30.27 percent was recorded in 2020.

brazil - Youth Unemployment Rate for Brazil was 17.95% in January of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, brazil - Youth Unemployment Rate for Brazil reached a record high of 30.27 in January of 2020 and a record low of 17.94 in January of 2023. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for brazil - Youth Unemployment Rate for Brazil - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on October of 2025.

In the third quarter of 2024, young Brazilians suffered a higher unemployment rate than the rest of the population. More than 13 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 25 were unemployed, compared to 4.1 percent of the unemployed between the ages of 40 and 59.

Brazil BR: Unemployment: Modeled ILO Estimate: Youth: % of Total Labour Force Aged 15-24 data was reported at 17.950 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 17.938 % for 2023. Brazil BR: Unemployment: Modeled ILO Estimate: Youth: % of Total Labour Force Aged 15-24 data is updated yearly, averaging 19.372 % from Dec 1991 (Median) to 2024, with 34 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 30.267 % in 2020 and a record low of 11.406 % in 1993. Brazil BR: Unemployment: Modeled ILO Estimate: Youth: % of Total Labour Force Aged 15-24 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Brazil – Table BR.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. Youth unemployment refers to the share of the labor force ages 15-24 without work but available for and seeking employment.;International Labour Organization. “ILO Modelled Estimates and Projections database (ILOEST)” ILOSTAT. Accessed January 07, 2025. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.;Weighted average;National estimates are also available in the WDI database. Caution should be used when comparing ILO estimates with national estimates.

Among people who did not complete primary school in Brazil, the unemployment rate was over eight percent in the second quarter of 2025. Those who had not completed high school had the highest unemployment rate, at 10.2 percent.

Brazil BR: Unemployment: Modeled ILO Estimate: Youth Female: % of Female Labour Force Aged 15-24 data was reported at 20.855 % in 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 20.909 % for 2023. Brazil BR: Unemployment: Modeled ILO Estimate: Youth Female: % of Female Labour Force Aged 15-24 data is updated yearly, averaging 24.506 % from Dec 1991 (Median) to 2024, with 34 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 35.308 % in 2020 and a record low of 14.002 % in 1993. Brazil BR: Unemployment: Modeled ILO Estimate: Youth Female: % of Female Labour Force Aged 15-24 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Brazil – Table BR.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. Youth unemployment refers to the share of the labor force ages 15-24 without work but available for and seeking employment.;International Labour Organization. “ILO Modelled Estimates and Projections database (ILOEST)” ILOSTAT. Accessed January 07, 2025. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.;Weighted average;National estimates are also available in the WDI database. Caution should be used when comparing ILO estimates with national estimates.

Unemployment, youth male (% of male labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate) in Brazil was reported at 15.62 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Brazil - Unemployment, youth male (% of male labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on September of 2025.

Approximately one out of every five Brazilians aged 15-to-24 years old were neither in employment nor education or training (NEET) in 2023. This represented a decreased compared to the previous year, when the youth NEET rate stood at around 21 percent.

Brazil BR: Share of Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training: Female: % of Female Youth Population data was reported at 25.469 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 25.825 % for 2022. Brazil BR: Share of Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training: Female: % of Female Youth Population data is updated yearly, averaging 27.991 % from Dec 1989 (Median) to 2023, with 30 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 34.322 % in 1989 and a record low of 25.007 % in 2008. Brazil BR: Share of Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training: Female: % of Female Youth Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Brazil – Table BR.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. Share of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) is the proportion of young people who are not in education, employment, or training to the population of the corresponding age group: youth (ages 15 to 24); persons ages 15 to 29; or both age groups.;International Labour Organization. “Labour Force Statistics database (LFS)” ILOSTAT. Accessed January 07, 2025. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.;Weighted average;

Unemployment, youth female (% of female labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate) in Brazil was reported at 20.98 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Brazil - Unemployment, youth female (% of female labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on September of 2025.

The proportion of 15-to-24 year old women neither in employment nor education or training (NEET) in Brazil is remarkably higher than that of men. In both cases, the NEET rate peaked in 2020, when 31.2 and 20.9 percent of young women and men in Brazil were neither in employment nor education or training, respectively.

Share of youth not in education, employment or training, female (% of female youth population) in Brazil was reported at 25.47 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Brazil - Share of youth not in education, employment or training, female - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on September of 2025.

abstract The objective of this paper is to analyze the patterns of insertion of young people in the Brazilian labor market between 2004 and 2015. The analysis begins by characterizing the historical patterns of insertion of young people in the labor market in Brazil and the decades of relative economic stagnation between 1981 and 2003. Then, taking into account the ensuing demographic changes, the increased rate of economic growth and the social policies impacting the labor market, the paper seeks to show how this context positively affected the integration of young people into the Brazilian labor market - trends that have been jeopardized by the recent process of stagnation/recession of the Brazilian economy.

Brazil BR: Employment To Population Ratio: National Estimate: Aged 15-24 data was reported at 44.673 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 44.692 % for 2022. Brazil BR: Employment To Population Ratio: National Estimate: Aged 15-24 data is updated yearly, averaging 50.499 % from Dec 1989 (Median) to 2023, with 30 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 60.554 % in 1989 and a record low of 35.897 % in 2020. Brazil BR: Employment To Population Ratio: National Estimate: Aged 15-24 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Brazil – Table BR.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed. Employment is defined as persons of working age who, during a short reference period, were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period (i.e. who worked in a job for at least one hour) or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangements. Ages 15-24 are generally considered the youth population.;International Labour Organization. “Labour Force Statistics database (LFS)” ILOSTAT. Accessed January 07, 2025. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.;Weighted average;The series for ILO estimates is also available in the WDI database. Caution should be used when comparing ILO estimates with national estimates.

Brazil BR: Employment To Population Ratio: National Estimate: Aged 15-24: Male data was reported at 50.978 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 51.497 % for 2022. Brazil BR: Employment To Population Ratio: National Estimate: Aged 15-24: Male data is updated yearly, averaging 61.429 % from Dec 1989 (Median) to 2023, with 30 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 77.923 % in 1989 and a record low of 42.810 % in 2020. Brazil BR: Employment To Population Ratio: National Estimate: Aged 15-24: Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Brazil – Table BR.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed. Employment is defined as persons of working age who, during a short reference period, were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period (i.e. who worked in a job for at least one hour) or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangements. Ages 15-24 are generally considered the youth population.;International Labour Organization. “Labour Force Statistics database (LFS)” ILOSTAT. Accessed January 07, 2025. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.;Weighted average;The series for ILO estimates is also available in the WDI database. Caution should be used when comparing ILO estimates with national estimates.