Openings and closures
In March 2026, 558,459 companies opened in Brazil and 296,293 companies closed, a net of +262,166. Of those openings, 419,638 opened as MEI (75.1%).
Compared
Openings rose 10.3% on February 2026 and were 35.7% above March 2025. In 12 months there were 5,254,861 openings, 14.1% above the 12 months before.
How we count
Each company is counted once, by its head office, from the Receita Federal's CNPJ Open Data. A closure may be recorded with a past date: the latest months may still gain closures in later publications.
Every number, by state, activity and size, is in the statistics, with the data to download.
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