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Brazil vs Japan: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)

Side-by-side comparison from World Bank Open Data.

In , Brazil's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 5.97, compared to Japan's 2.45. That makes Brazil's value 143.6% higher than Japan's.

Brazil

Rank #74 of 182 globally

Brazil trend
Latest (2025)
5.97
Year-over-year
-12.2%
10-year change
-30.1%
Peak
13.70 (2020)
Trough
5.97 (2025)

Japan

Rank #159 of 182 globally

Japan trend
Latest (2025)
2.45
Year-over-year
-2.0%
10-year change
-27.6%
Peak
5.10 (2010)
Trough
2.35 (2019)

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Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0.