During a 2023 survey, around 35 percent of respondents interviewed in Brazil said they belonged to the middle class. Meanwhile, 24.3 percent of the interviewees defined their social class as "low" and 25.7 percent stated that they were part of the middle class.Furthermore, Brazil's Gini coefficient, an indicator that measures wealth distribution, shows Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the Latin American region.

Abstract Between 2001 and 2013, Brazil’s economy grew with income redistribution. A result of inflationary stability, minimum wage increase, credit expansion and the widening of social policies, this period was characterized by the upward mobility of dozens of millions of Brazilians. Economists, journalists, politicians and marketers heralded the end of endemic poverty and the incorporation of this population into a newly defined “middle class”. Drawing from a documental ethnography, and from interviews with experts, this article pursuits the archeology of this category, problematizing the taxonomic ways of its emergence and evanescence. We argue that the “new middle class” must be understood as a scientific, political, and economic assemblage – one that is performed through statistic, governmental, and marketing alignments. Such diffuse scales of knowledge and power crystallized discursive fronts that rendered economic mobility legible in a country traditionally known for its stagnation and inequality.

In Brazil, **** percent of consumers earned at least the equivalent of the highest 40 percent of global income earners as of 2022 in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. Those who earned at least the equivalent of the top 10 percent of global income earners stood at *** percent.

Against the background of the generalized reduction of poverty in the world, and particularly in Brazil, this article intends to gauge the socio-economic profile of Brazilian households that emerged from poverty and have been identified as integrating a "new middle class". Using indicators of standards of living from the 2008-2009 Survey on Family Budgets (POF/IBGE), we found out that, in contrast to what has been assumed on the basis of average income criteria, this social stratum is markedly heterogeneous, most of it being similar in their consumption patterns to the economically vulnerable or outright poor strata. So, we conclude that, from a sociological perspective that demands additional conditions besides income levels to identify social classes, it is a category mistake to call this social stratum a new middle class. We conjecture that this may be consequential in terms of policy priorities and choices.

Imports: ISIC Class: Vol: Manufacture of Footwear data was reported at 2,558,931.000 kg in Feb 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,499,562.000 kg for Jan 2025. Imports: ISIC Class: Vol: Manufacture of Footwear data is updated monthly, averaging 1,267,369.000 kg from Jan 1997 (Median) to Feb 2025, with 338 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,270,378.000 kg in May 2012 and a record low of 245,030.000 kg in Dec 2002. Imports: ISIC Class: Vol: Manufacture of Footwear data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Special Secretariat for Foreign Trade and International Affairs. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Foreign Trade – Table BR.ISIC: Class: Imports: Volume.

In the first three months of 2022 and 2023, the average consumer basket ticket price in retail in Brazil varied significantly depending on the socio-economic level. Classes A & B, meaning those earning more than ** times the minimum wage (or ********* Brazilian reals), had an average ticket price of **** reals. The lowest income levels, classes D & E, spent on average more than class C.

Online shoppers classified in the C income class made the largest share of digital buyers in Brazil in 2024, with ** percent. AB shoppers, in turn, represented over ** percent, whereas DE consumers amounted to less than ** percent.

ABSTRACT The article presents a panorama of socioeconomic hierarchies in late Nineteenth-century Brazil. Income analysis of social classes underpins these echelons. Within a theoretical and historical approach focused on social class, the article reckons that the Brazilian Empire was relatively egalitarian in terms of wages. A broad expressiveness of the lower classes, rather than a hypothetical robustness of the middle or the upper classes, explains this equality. The analysis of purchasing power and patterns of consumption made it possible to identify the degree of precariousness of the popular classes, as well as the existence of mainly urban middle classes. Lastly, salary data on the upper classes should not hide concentration of wealth, a main characteristic of the Empire’s decay, which was largely due to a polarized structure of slave property.

Imports: ISIC Class: Vol: Book Publishing data was reported at 1,587,377.000 kg in Feb 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,748,874.000 kg for Jan 2025. Imports: ISIC Class: Vol: Book Publishing data is updated monthly, averaging 1,381,043.000 kg from Jan 1997 (Median) to Feb 2025, with 338 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9,040,905.000 kg in Oct 2011 and a record low of 310,257.000 kg in Aug 2004. Imports: ISIC Class: Vol: Book Publishing data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Special Secretariat for Foreign Trade and International Affairs. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Foreign Trade – Table BR.ISIC: Class: Imports: Volume.

Exports: ISIC Class: Vol: Manufacture of Footwear data was reported at 4,799,843.000 kg in Feb 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 5,375,219.000 kg for Jan 2025. Exports: ISIC Class: Vol: Manufacture of Footwear data is updated monthly, averaging 6,050,009.500 kg from Jan 1997 (Median) to Feb 2025, with 338 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12,841,641.000 kg in Mar 2004 and a record low of 1,712,307.000 kg in May 2020. Exports: ISIC Class: Vol: Manufacture of Footwear data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Special Secretariat for Foreign Trade and International Affairs. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Foreign Trade – Table BR.ISIC: Class: Exports: Volume.

This data set provides tree age, forest formation, and land cover classification maps, and estimates of landscape-level above-ground live woody biomass (AGLB) for secondary forests in Rondonia, Brazil. The Threshold Age Mapping Algorithm (TAMA) was applied to a densely spaced time series of Landsat images (1975 to 2003) to derive forest type and age classification maps. The AGLB of the secondary forest was estimated by combining the forest classification map with coincident biomass estimates from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS). There are five raster images and three comma-delimited data files with this data set.

In 2023, Pedagogy was the course with the highest number of students enrolled, with more than ******* people. It was followed by law with more than ******* enrolled students and Administration with nearly ******* students.

Comprehensive dataset containing 141 verified Aero dance class businesses in Brazil with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Comprehensive dataset containing 26 verified Body shaping class businesses in State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Comprehensive dataset containing 6 verified Body shaping class businesses in State of Santa Catarina, Brazil with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Comprehensive dataset containing 30 verified Wood working class businesses in Brazil with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

In 2019, the B2 and C1 middle classes in Brazil combined accounted for over half of the total apparel consumption in the country. Meanwhile, the lowest socioeconomic group in the South American country (D/E) registered, with **** percent, a higher share of fashion consumption than the Brazilian upper class (A). The socioeconomic group B1, which corresponds to the the upper middle class in the South American country, accounted for only *** percent of the total consumption of clothing, accessories and similar products that year.

Comprehensive dataset containing 134 verified Photography class businesses in Brazil with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Comprehensive dataset containing 164 verified Stitching class businesses in Brazil with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

In 2024, around ** percent of internet users surveyed in Brazil said they had used the internet to do online courses. It is the third highest value registered so far, only down from ** percent in 2021 and ** percent in 2023. Online study and education is one of the main reasons for **** percent of internet users in Brazil to access web, thus being one of the most popular video content types consumed in the country.