A short guide to Brazilian macro and financial data
Interested in activity, prices, monetary, fiscal, external sector, and financial data for Brazil? There are loads of datasets, see for example this Repository which has official statistics from BCB and IBGE. However, this short guide will help you find the our "must-see" datasets.
Brazil Country Profile Dashboard
The starting point is our Brazil Macro Dashboard, a fully automatized Dashboard presenting up-to-date data. You can catch a glimpse and get a broad idea of the latest developments. It contains five sections: Activity, Prices, Money and Banking, Fiscal, External Sector, and Financial.
The Charts are fully integrated with our datasets, so if you want to replicate any of them, you can download the source Dataset, or just click the button “Clone Chart” to reproduce the Chart inside our Platform.
The main sources for the data used on this Dashboard come from the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB), The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), and Brazil's Ministry of Economy. The data is fully integrated with our database which means once the sources release the data, our database will be instantaneously updated on our platform.
Activity
To track the economic activity of the Brazilian Economy, you can monitor the evolution of GDP, Industrial Production, Employment, and Wages.
Quarterly Gross Domestic Product
Monthly Gross Domestic Product
This is just a small sample of all the datasets we make available to our users, but there is more information that we know you will find useful. Moreover, data is pre-processed within the platform so that you don't have to spend time doing transformations such as Seasonal Adjustment, currency change, % of GDP, Year to Date, Cumulative sums, etc.
Prices
For prices and inflation, you will be able to track the main inflation figures for Brazil. In addition, you will find data regarding to inflation targeting and bands established by its Central Bank.
In adittion, for a very long historical dataset you can see FIPE's Sao Paulo Consumer Prices Index and for the IPCA you can use this dataset
Money and Banking
Money and banking data tracks variables, such as Monetary Aggregates, Interest rates, and Credit. If you are curious about the Credit Interest Rates in Brazil, check it out this dataset. Spoiler: they are growing. Other relevant information is:
From the published data you will be able to combine, transform and create your own variables or indicators as well. For example, one user calculated the actual rate from the BIS and OECD data in this pipeline. For example, one user calculated the real rate from the BIS and OECD data in this pipeline.
Fiscal
The Fiscal data tracks the evolution of the Fiscal Accounts of Brazil and the Debt over the GDP path. For example, to keep track of fiscal activity, measuring the cumulative of the last 12 months as a percentage of GDP is useful. With Alphacast this procedure is already done! Check it out this dataset and explore all information. You can also find public sector and general government net debt data in this dataset and create charts from them like the one below.
External Sector
In the External Sector Section, you can track variables such as Balance of Payments, External Trade and the Exchanges Rates. For example, we have a dataset comparing the exchange rate between the Brazilian currency and the currency of multiple countries, check it out here.
Current Account - Balance of Trade
Financial
Finally, regarding Financial Data we offer to our users plenty of information about the Brazil's Risk Premium, Stock Market, Government Bonds, and Equity.
Beyond Brazil, we have a comprehensive dataset covering the Risk Premium for multiple countries.
Besides that, you can also access all Yahoo Finance data directly from here, using Alphacast pipelines. The following graphs were created based on this information. The graph on the left shows the variation of the Latam Equity ETF in USD compared to December 29, 2021, while the graph on the right reflects the cumulative yield bonds.
If you want to further explore Brazil's Data you can click here and filter the categories you are interested in. Also, you can find datasets that compile information from several countries, such as OECD, BIS or IMF.