# Brazil Employment

Brazil Employment was up 0.7% year on year in Q2 2026, compared with 1.5% in Q1 2026.
The level stood at 103,057 thousands.
That is the lowest reading since Q3 2023.
Among the 14 economies Makrognosis covers on this measure, it is the 7th highest.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −12.1% (Q3 2020) to 11.4% (Q3 2021), averaging 1.3%.

- Source agency: IBGE SIDRA (Sistema IBGE de Recuperacao Automatica), Brazil
- Makrognosis code: `BR.EMP.Q.NSA`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: thousands
- Coverage: 2012-03-01 to 2026-06-01 (58 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/brazil/employment

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q2 2026 | 103,057 thousands | 0.7 |
| Q1 2026 | 101,976 thousands | 1.5 |
| Q4 2025 | 102,998 thousands | 1.1 |
| Q3 2025 | 102,433 thousands | 1.4 |
| Q2 2025 | 102,316 thousands | 2.4 |
| Q1 2025 | 100,511 thousands | 2.3 |
| Q4 2024 | 101,832 thousands | 2.8 |
| Q3 2024 | 101,058 thousands | 3.2 |
| Q2 2024 | 99,883 thousands | 2.9 |
| Q1 2024 | 98,290 thousands | 2.4 |
| Q4 2023 | 99,062 thousands | 1.6 |
| Q3 2023 | 97,938 thousands | 0.5 |
| Q2 2023 | 97,038 thousands | 0.6 |
| Q1 2023 | 95,978 thousands | 2.6 |
| Q4 2022 | 97,517 thousands | 3.8 |
| Q3 2022 | 97,435 thousands | 6.8 |
| Q2 2022 | 96,445 thousands | 9.9 |
| Q1 2022 | 93,523 thousands | 9.4 |
| Q4 2021 | 93,988 thousands | 9.7 |
| Q3 2021 | 91,265 thousands | 11.4 |
| Q2 2021 | 87,743 thousands | 6.2 |
| Q1 2021 | 85,497 thousands | −6.6 |
| Q4 2020 | 85,669 thousands | −8.8 |
| Q3 2020 | 81,954 thousands | −12.1 |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/BR.EMP.Q.NSA"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/BR.EMP.Q.NSA",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```