Correia cites IBGE figures: 'under Bolsonaro's government, people were on the waiting list for bones'

247 - Federal deputy Rogério Correia (PT-MG) commented this Saturday (15) on the numbers that pointed to an unemployment rate of 6,2% in the 4th quarter of 2024, as released this Friday (14) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). In 14 states, the average annual unemployment rate for 2024 was the lowest in the historical series.

“Under the government of the ineligible one, who will be denounced before Carnival, our unemployed people were left to fend for themselves. Let's not forget. Unemployment in 2024 was the lowest ever recorded in 14 Brazilian states, with the rate falling below 3% in some,” the congressman wrote.

Last year, the 14 federative units that presented the lowest average annual unemployment rate in the historical series were Acre (6,4%), Amazonas (8,4%), Amapá (8,3%), Tocantins (5,5%), Maranhão (7,1%), Ceará (7,0%), Rio Grande do Norte (8,5%), Alagoas (7,6%), Minas Gerais (5,0%), Espírito Santo (3,9%), São Paulo (6,2%), Santa Catarina (2,9%), Mato Grosso do Sul (3,9%) and Mato Grosso (2,6%).

IBGE reported that the highest average unemployment rates in 2024 were recorded in Bahia and Pernambuco (both at 10,8%), the Federal District (9,6%), and Rio de Janeiro (9,3%). The lowest average annual unemployment rates were observed in Mato Grosso (2,6%), Santa Catarina (2,9%), and Rondônia (3,3%).

Hunger

The institute also reported that 24,4 million people escaped hunger in 2023. The number of people facing severe food and nutritional insecurity fell from 33,1 million in 2022 (15,5% of the population) to 8,7 million in 2023 (4,1%). This represented a decrease of 11,4 percentage points in a projection based on IBGE data.

The proportion of food-secure households peaked in 2013 (77,4%), when the country left the Hunger Map, but fell in 2017-2018 (63,3%). It increased to 72,4% in 2023.