Openings and closures
In September 2026, 465,713 companies opened in Brazil and 253,162 companies closed, a net of +212,551. Of those openings, 356,915 opened as MEI (76.6%).
Compared
Openings fell 6.0% on August 2026 and were 6.4% above September 2025. In 12 months there were 5,610,057 openings, 14.1% above the 12 months before.
What stood out
Holdings de instituições não financeiras grew the most: 54,355 companies opened in 12 months, 67.3% more than in the 12 months before.
76.3% of the companies opened in the last 12 months opened as a MEI.
In September 2026, there were 1.8 openings for each company closed.
Rondônia had the largest growth in openings among the states: +25.5% in 12 months.
41.6% of the companies opened in 2021 are still active today.
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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