IBGE: Informality increases and reaches 37.3 million workers in 2017 – 05/12/2018

Informality has increased in Brazil. In 2017, 37.3 million people were working without an official contract, which represents an increase of 1.7 million more than in 2016, while 35.6 million workers were in this situation.

Data was released Wednesday. (19659003) According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the total number of informal workers in 2017 represents 40.8% of the total number of informal sector workers in Brazil, according to the information provided by the PNAD (National Survey of Household Samples).

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The data indicate that informality has been steadily decreasing since 2012, when it began to be

See below the total number of workers without portfolio each year:

• 2012: 37.2 million
• 2013: 36.8 million [19659008] 2014: 36.1 million
• 2015: 36, 1 mile The IBGE has not detailed the causes of the increase in informality, it has only reported the figures to the economic crisis that the country has gone through in the last three years

  Blacks or browns are the majority

  Nearly half (46.9%) of the population black or brown (official name used by the IBGE) is informal. The percentage among Whites is lower: 33.7%. The survey shows no results for yellows (people who declare themselves Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.), indigenous or nonspecific.

  The level of informality is equivalent between men and women: 40.8% of them are not registered. , while 40.7% of them are in the same situation.

  However, in some activities, the level of informality exceeds 50%. This is the case of agriculture, where 66.8% of men and 75.5% of women are not registered, and domestic services, in which 57.3% of men and 71.2 % of women perform the function without portfolio

  Informal receives less than half

  The income of the worker without a formal contract is less than half the income of those working in the register. In 2017, informal workers received on average 48.5% of formal income.

  Inequality remained the same by bad. An informal woman received on average 73% of a man in the same state. In badysis by color or race, a black or brown person with informality received 60% of a white person who was in the same situation.