In this page: Legal Forms of Companies | The Active Population in Figures | Working Conditions | The Cost of Labour | Management of Human Resources
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Setting Up a Company | Brazil | Latin America & Caribbean |
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Procedures (number) | 11.00 | 8.00 |
Time (days) | 16.60 | 25.22 |
Source: Doing Business - Latest available data.
Dun & Bradstreet - Worldwide directory with financial information on businesses
Kompass Brazil - Business directory for Brazil
2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
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Labour Force | 105,542,221 | 107,461,083 | 99,843,130 |
Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
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Total activity rate | 70.17% | 70.31% | 70.93% |
Men activity rate | 80.09% | 79.97% | 80.19% |
Women activity rate | 60.50% | 60.90% | 61.89% |
Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database
Employed Persons, by Occupation (% of Total Labour Force) | 2016 |
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Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 19.3% |
Manufacturing | 11.4% |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 10.2% |
Construction | 8.1% |
Education | 6.7% |
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security | 5.7% |
Accommodation and food service activities | 5.1% |
Transportation and storage | 5.0% |
Human health and social work activities | 4.8% |
Administrative and support service activities | 4.1% |
Professional, scientific and technical activities | 3.3% |
Financial and insurance activities | 1.4% |
Information and communication | 1.3% |
Arts, entertainment and recreation | 1.0% |
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities | 0.7% |
Real estate activities | 0.6% |
Mining and quarrying | 0.5% |
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply | 0.2% |
Employees contribute 8% to 11% to social security, depending on their salary categories (Deloitte, 2022).
The Labour Code prohibits having too many unions for a single profession and in each region. Although the law has not created a central institution representing the unions, four groups have tried to provide this, but without legitimacy: the Unitarian Workers Group (CUT), the General Confederation of Workers (CGT) and the Força Sindical (FS). Some industrial and mining sectors have powerful unions; however, the unions are more or less absent from the rural areas where the great landowners still hold sway.
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