Openings and closures
In April 2026, 478,825 companies opened in Brazil and 253,292 companies closed, a net of +225,533. Of those openings, 363,441 opened as MEI (75.9%).
Compared
Openings fell 14.3% on March 2026 and were 18.0% above April 2025. In 12 months there were 5,328,070 openings, 15.1% 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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