Brazil vs Portugal: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Brazil

5.8%

in 2025

Portugal

6.0%

in 2025

Brazil rank

80th

Portugal rank

77th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Brazil
Portugal

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 6.0% against 5.8% in Brazil, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1976 it was Portugal ahead.

Brazil ranks 80th and Portugal ranks 77th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Brazil
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Portugal
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates
Unit: %
Source: Labour Force Statistics, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 185 places, 5,169 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon. Figures refer to national estimates and may not be fully comparable across countries.