In Brazil, from the total national wealth share in 2021, nearly 80 percent belonged to the top ten percent. Almost half of Brazil's wealth was held by top one percent. On the other hand, the bottom 50 percent had a total of -0.4 percent, that is, on average, this group had more debts than assets. That year, the average personal wealth of the bottom 50 percent was valued at -300 euros.

In Brazil, the bottom 50 percent had a negative average personal wealth in 2021, which means that the value of their debts exceeded that of their assets. In comparison, in Argentina, average personal wealth of the bottom 50 percent reached 3,500 euros that same year. In stark contrast, the richest one percent in Brazil held an average wealth of 1.79 million euros, revealing the high level of inequality i the country.

The statistic shows the wealth distribution in Brazil in 2015, based on share of national income. According to the source, the richest * percent of the Brazilian population concentrated ** percent of the country's national income.

Between 2010 and 2023, Brazil's data on the degree of inequality in wealth distribution based on the Gini coefficient reached 52. That year, Brazil was deemed one of the most unequal country in Latin America. Prior to 2010, wealth distribution in Brazil had shown signs of improvement, with the Gini coefficient decreasing in the previous 3 reporting periods. The Gini coefficient measures the deviation of the distribution of income (or consumption) among individuals or households in a given country from a perfectly equal distribution. A value of 0 represents absolute equality, whereas 100 would be the highest possible degree of inequality.

ABSTRACT Brazil is the only country among the 20 richest and the 20 most unequal. It has one of the largest income redistribution programs in the world, Bolsa Família, but also one of the most unjust tax burdens. Taxation and economic inequality are two of the most important issues in developing countries. In a situation of economic stagnation, the government prioritized cutting expenses as a measure of fiscal balance. This paper aims to analyze the implementation of a Wealth Tax, its feasibility and tax collection by simulation with data from tax declarations. It is shown that the Wealth Tax is feasible, has a solid revenue and could be used as an instrument of fiscal justice. It could also help with fiscal equilibrium instead of other austerity measures such as cuts in expenses of essential sectors to the economic growth and well-being of Brazil.

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.

Brazil Broad Money Supply: M3: Operation Committed with Federal Securities data was reported at 113,074.640 BRL mn in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 103,266.242 BRL mn for May 2018. Brazil Broad Money Supply: M3: Operation Committed with Federal Securities data is updated monthly, averaging 29,866.033 BRL mn from Jul 1994 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 288 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 218,686.067 BRL mn in Mar 2016 and a record low of 0.000 BRL mn in Jul 1999. Brazil Broad Money Supply: M3: Operation Committed with Federal Securities data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Bank of Brazil. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Brazil – Table BR.KAA018: Money Supply. Brazilian Central Bank has made changes in methodology of Financial System Credit Data in February of 2013 after 13 years following the same methodology. These changes are necessary face the expansion of credit, favored by the improvement of the indicators of employment and income, continuous and sharp reduction of the interest rates and by important institutional advances. It is essential the availability of new information, in particular, which allows more detailed monitoring of credit arrangements with targeted resources, especially real estate financing, whose dynamism has contributed to reducing the housing deficit in the country. The main change includes coverage of data on concessions, interest rates, terms and default rates that were extended to the segment of directed credit and also became necessary to further detailing the statistical framework, to enable identification of the terms most relevant as well as reduce the relative share of loans not classified - embedded in 'other receivables'. The Money Supply statistics were revised in August 2018, incorporating methodological updates to increase compliance with international standards and consistency with other sets of macroeconomic statistics. The revision consists the inclusion of cooperatives among the institutions that meke up the money issuing system, resulting in M1 expansion, and the exclusion of non-residents assets, impacting mainly on M4. Replacement series ID: 408100927

Brazil Money Supply: M3: % of GDP data was reported at 91.882 % in May 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 91.266 % for Apr 2019. Brazil Money Supply: M3: % of GDP data is updated monthly, averaging 58.220 % from Jul 1994 (Median) to May 2019, with 299 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 92.678 % in Dec 2018 and a record low of 29.655 % in Jun 1995. Brazil Money Supply: M3: % of GDP data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Bank of Brazil. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Monetary – Table BR.KAA006: Money Supply: as Percentage of GDP.

Money Supply M3 in Brazil increased to 13123261 BRL Million in October from 12992596 BRL Million in September of 2025. This dataset provides - Brazil Money Supply M3 - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Brazil Broad Money Supply: M3: Quotas of Fixed Income Funds data was reported at 3,338,465.350 BRL mn in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 3,331,842.832 BRL mn for May 2018. Brazil Broad Money Supply: M3: Quotas of Fixed Income Funds data is updated monthly, averaging 629,057.895 BRL mn from Jul 1994 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 288 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,340,435.474 BRL mn in Apr 2018 and a record low of 18,817.305 BRL mn in Jul 1994. Brazil Broad Money Supply: M3: Quotas of Fixed Income Funds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Bank of Brazil. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Brazil – Table BR.KAA018: Money Supply. Brazilian Central Bank has made changes in methodology of Financial System Credit Data in February of 2013 after 13 years following the same methodology. These changes are necessary face the expansion of credit, favored by the improvement of the indicators of employment and income, continuous and sharp reduction of the interest rates and by important institutional advances. It is essential the availability of new information, in particular, which allows more detailed monitoring of credit arrangements with targeted resources, especially real estate financing, whose dynamism has contributed to reducing the housing deficit in the country. The main change includes coverage of data on concessions, interest rates, terms and default rates that were extended to the segment of directed credit and also became necessary to further detailing the statistical framework, to enable identification of the terms most relevant as well as reduce the relative share of loans not classified - embedded in 'other receivables'. The Money Supply statistics were revised in August 2018, incorporating methodological updates to increase compliance with international standards and consistency with other sets of macroeconomic statistics. The revision consists the inclusion of cooperatives among the institutions that meke up the money issuing system, resulting in M1 expansion, and the exclusion of non-residents assets, impacting mainly on M4. Replacement series ID: 408100917

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Money Supply M0 in Brazil increased to 431878.28 BRL Million in October from 429700.16 BRL Million in September of 2025. This dataset provides - Brazil Money Supply M0 - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Money Supply M2 in Brazil increased to 7191386 BRL Million in October from 7163931 BRL Million in September of 2025. This dataset provides - Brazil Money Supply M2 - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Money supply, billion currency units in Brazil, September, 2025 The most recent value is 7123.45 billion Brazilian Real as of September 2025, an increase compared to the previous value of 7082.91 billion Brazilian Real. Historically, the average for Brazil from July 1994 to September 2025 is 1815.83 billion Brazilian Real. The minimum of 100.69 billion Brazilian Real was recorded in July 1994, while the maximum of 7123.45 billion Brazilian Real was reached in September 2025. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

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Traditional agrarian elites have often been portrayed as obstacles to the expansion of the state. Because landed actors are particularly exposed to taxation, inequality is expected to exacerbate their resistance to the development of fiscal capacity. This article argues that when propertied actors are politically dominant and obtain benefits from public spending that are proportional to their capital endowments, wealth inequality is associated with greater elite support for capacity investments. Using early 20th-century Brazilian data, I show that where landed elites faced fewer political threats, higher levels of landholding concentration were associated with increased fiscal and administrative capacity. Tests of mechanisms corroborate the idea that this relationship results from elite demands for specific types of public spending. These findings contribute to the broader literature on state-building by providing new insights into the interaction between economic interests and political dominance in shaping subnational variation in the reach of the state.

ABSTRACT This paper aims to extract a picture as detailed as possible of the size and structure of the financial wealth in Brazil, using the financial accounts (2005-2009), the balance sheet accounts (2004-2009) and the balance sheet matrix for the year 2009. Two contributions made by this paper are the calculation of the intrasectoral financial positions, as well as the very presentation of the balance sheet matrix. Furthermore, based on the Brazilian Central Bank financial statements, the paper manages to unwind, for some purposes, the dubious aggregate in which the Monetary Authority figures are mixed with those of the other financial firms.

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In 2023, the percentage of income held by the richest 20 percent of the population in Brazil stood at 56.6 percent. Between 1981 and 2023, the figure dropped by 5.7 percentage points, though the decline followed an uneven course rather than a steady trajectory.