Brazil - Total Employment

For Brazil, register-based employment concepts (total employed persons, salaried employment, aggregate annual salary), by industry, in subnational areas (region, state, metro area, municipality), annually from 1996. Reported by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

Annual

Active:

• Classification: CNAE 2.0 (aligned with UN ISIC Rev. 4)
• Measurements:
  • Unitary count (#)
  • Thousands of Brazilian reais (Ths. BRL)
• Adjustment: Not applicable
• Native frequency: Annual
• Start date: As early as 1996
• Geo coverage:
  • Country (IBRA)
  • Region (5x IBRA_^^^^)
  • State (27x IBRA_^^)
  • Metro area (8x IBRA_M^^^)
  • Municipality (5,565x IBRA_aannnnn)
• All concept-geo pairs exist: No

Predecessor and discontinued subsets:

• Wages - 1996 to 2023
• 1996 to 2006 ("10")
• By CNAE 1.0 - 1996 to 2006 ("_OLD")

Global concept alias:

• ETOT

Censal

• Concepts: Population, economically active population (labor force), employment
• Measurement: Unitary count (#)
• Adjustment: Not applicable
• Native frequency: Censal
• Start date: 2010
• Geo coverage: Municipality (58x IBRA_aannnnn)

IBGE's Central Register of Enterprises (Cadastro Central de Empresas, CEMPRE) is an important group of data about Brazil’s economic activity. It gathers information relative to registers and to the economy which is obtained from annual surveys of the institute in the fields of Industry, Construction, Trade and Services and from the Annual List of Social Information (RAIS) of the Ministry of Labor and Employment.

The regional analysis includes the number of local units, employed persons and salaries and other compensation. It is based on the presence of local units of companies and other active organizations in the areas bordered by the North, Northeast and Southeast. The data is then divided into the state of São Paulo and other states of the Region - South and Central West Regio.

Data are reported in the annual "Statistics of the Central Register of Enterprises (CEMPRE)."

The "Annual Survey of Businesses" was a project in 2007 but not in 2022.

Further reading

At the source:

• Dead link
• Statistics of the Central Register of Enterprises - CEMPRE (English)
• About the publication (English)
• 2019 CEMPRE: number of enterprises and organizations with at least one worker grew 3.4% (Jun 2021, English)
• Estatísticas do Cadastro Central de Empresas - CEMPRE, Principais resultados 2019
• Demografia das Empresas, Principais resultados 2015
• Technical note 01/2021

At the IBGE SIDRA data portal:

• Cadastro Central de Empresas - CEMPRE
• Tabela 988
• Tabela 1685
• Tabela 3421
• Tabela 6703

• Jul 2007 - Initial version.
• Aug 2011 - Reclassified to CNAE 2.0.
• Apr 2022 - Addendum of 31 muni areas.
• 3 Mar 2026, Phillip Thorne - Dropped subnational coverage.
• 14 Apr 2026 - Addendum: employment and wages with three-digit industry detail.
• 5 May 2026, Phillip Thorne - Properties.