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What changed on 24/10/2026

Review of the 46 Portuguese Overview cards. Comparisons of special jurisdiction, municipal councils, state assemblies and flights, the remaining sanitation investment requirement and the count of taxes still lack validated figures. Other verification limits are stated on the cards.

Tax bureaucracy

The 1,501 hours are now identified as a 2018 reference in a standardised Doing Business 2020 business case.

Unemployment

The definition now includes IBGE’s exception for people who had already secured work starting later and were available. The rate’s calculation base was made explicit.

PISA 2022

The conversion of scores into years of schooling was removed. Average proficiency remains, with the addition of the percentage reaching level 2 or above in mathematics.

Rule of law

The prediction of deterioration was replaced by the WJP 2026 edition’s result, with date, rank and direction of the score change.

Special jurisdiction by virtue of office

The quantitative comparison was removed until a common period and equivalent legal criteria are verified. The topic and its limitation remain visible.

Union register

The count was redone from the CNES list of 14/04/2025, separating workers and employers and excluding higher organisational levels. The international ranking and revenue peak without a confirmed basis were removed.

IDEB and public schools

The figures previously labelled as public schools covered all school networks in 2023. The card now uses public schools in 2023 and 2025 and explains why comparing stages does not follow the same students.

Homicide clearance

The percentage now identifies incidents in 2023, charges brought by the end of 2024, the formula and coverage of 17 federal units. The distinction between charges and convictions was made explicit.

Congress accounts

The Chamber and Senate now present revised appropriations and committed expenditure for 2024, with accounting documents and stages identified. The institutional total was not treated as parliamentary remuneration.

Municipal councils

Aggregate amounts and the seat count without a confirmed year and coverage were removed. Comparison criteria and the unresolved quantitative issue remain.

State legislative assemblies

The monetary range without confirmed equivalent years and components was removed. The text distinguishes allocation of institutional-structure costs from individual remuneration.

Judicial expenditure

The reference was limited to 2023 data in Justiça em Números 2024, excluding STF and CNJ and making the treatment of retirement benefits and pensions explicit.

Public officials’ flights

The flight total, aggregate cost and occupancy conclusion without a confirmed basis were removed. Ministry records were identified as a limited scope, without national extrapolation.

British funding

The Sovereign Grant was identified as 2023–24 funding with a limited scope. Currency conversion and the implied equivalence with the legislature and judiciary were removed.

Economic freedom

The 2025 edition now identifies the observation period and ranked universe. The ten comparators were checked in the same table, with exact ranks and scores.

ICMS, ISS and consumption-tax reform

The count of government entities is no longer presented as an inventory of laws. The text distinguishes powers from general rules and reports the transition planned through 2033.

Output per hour worked

The Brazil–US comparison was reproduced in Penn World Table 11.0 for 2023. Equivalence with individual effort was removed; the indicator now explains its aggregate nature.

Business start-up, dispute and deregistration

Start-up now states the period and exclusions in Mapa de Empresas. The dispute was limited to the historical Doing Business case. The claim that outstanding tax matters, by themselves, prevent CNPJ deregistration was corrected.

Tax shares

The sum of six tax aggregates was recalculated using the 2024 dataset: around 63%, instead of more than 80%. The approximate count of 90 taxes remains unvalidated and is not presented as a confirmed total.

Minimum wage and the dollar

The 2026 minimum wage was identified. Comparisons for 2005 and 2025 now use December and official daily averages, with a reproducible method and a distinction between exchange rates and purchasing power.

CPI 2024 and comparators

The ten foreign scores were corrected using the same edition. Brazil’s lowest score was limited to the comparable 2012–2024 series, and perceptions are no longer treated as a count of corruption.

Court cases and backlog

Ranges without a year were replaced by CNJ’s 2023 figures. Stocks, new and original cases, congestion and tax enforcement were defined, without duplicating the judicial-cost card.

Rules enacted

The figures were attributed to IBPT’s 2024 study, with the limitation that the catalogue was not audited. The rate per working hour without a reproduced denominator was removed; enactment, validity and the number of taxes were distinguished.

Government spending per student

Ranges without a stage or period were replaced by table C3.1 values from Education at a Glance 2026, with reference year 2023 and identified national exceptions. The text distinguishes primary and lower secondary years, government funding, public and private institutions and full-time-equivalent students, without inferring spending’s effect on learning.

Functional illiteracy: INAF 2024

The 29% total was tied to people aged 15 to 64 and the illiterate or rudimentary INAF 2024 levels. Youth estimates for 2018 and 2024 now state the period and the estimated 2024 margin, without treating the two-point change as a demonstrated worsening trend.

Pathways and upper secondary completion

The proportion without an identified basis for completion at the expected age was replaced by the three states of an EAG 2026 entry cohort, up to two years after the expected duration. Brazil’s 2023 reference and exclusions of youth and adult education (EJA) and four-year programmes were made explicit; lack of enrolment was not equated with permanent dropout.

Health: spending per person

The values were located in the Health at a Glance LAC 2026 spreadsheet: Brazil in 2023 and the OECD average in 2024. The text identifies current public and private expenditure at PPP per person and removes the one-third ratio, without presenting different years as a strict comparison or calling the total the SUS budget.

Health: financing and coverage plans

The spending split now follows WHO financing schemes in 2023, with 44.1% government and compulsory and 55.9% voluntary and out-of-pocket. ANS now identifies 53.2 million medical-care enrolments in August 2026, without converting them into unique people or a complementary share of SUS dependence.

Health: hospital beds

Ranges without a year were replaced by published stocks for Brazil in 2021 and the OECD average in 2024, converted from the same original unit to beds per thousand people. The half-capacity claim was removed; quantity, staffing, occupancy and territorial distribution are now treated as separate dimensions.

Life expectancy and infant mortality

Generic ranges were replaced by values from the 2026 international edition, with Brazil’s 2024 reference and available years identified in the averages. Infant mortality now specifies deaths before the first birthday per thousand live births; the comparison was not attributed solely to the SUS’s effect.

Homicides and robberies resulting in death

The national scope now identifies 2024 deaths in Atlas 2026, with the source’s rate, population and categories. Robberies resulting in death were limited to registered victims in 2025 in Anuário, without adding different datasets and periods together.

International homicide comparison

Brazil, the Americas and the world now use 2024 from the same UNODC database. The Brazil/world ratio was recalculated before rounding, around 3.6 times; the Atlas rate and equivalence with war were removed from the comparison.

Six countries in the same dataset

The six rates were extracted from UNODC with the same filters, unit and year, 2024. The selection was presented alphabetically with explicit coverage, without creating a world ranking or classifying countries as being at war.

Vehicle robbery and theft

Robberies and thefts registered in 2025 were added by federal unit. São Paulo’s share was corrected to 36.4%, and the text now distinguishes police incidents from unique vehicles and absolute volume from individual risk.

Rape and rape of vulnerable persons

The card now identifies registered victims of the two completed crimes in 2025 and the total published in Anuário. The fixed underreporting multiplier was removed; police records were not converted into the prevalence of all sexual violence.

Police interventions and officer deaths

Both indicators now use 2025 records with their own definitions. Police deaths were limited to active officers who were victims of intentional violent lethal crimes, excluding suicides and accidents, without an international ranking or a conclusion about each intervention’s legality.

Physical cells and provisional detention

Population, places and provisionally detained people were aligned to the same systems and the stock on 31/12/2025. Occupancy and proportion were recalculated without house arrest or other detention facilities in the numerator, without converting the administrative category into all cases lacking a final judgment.

Firearm deaths and seizures

Firearm deaths in 2024 and state seizures in 2025 now have separate sources and populations. Automatic attribution to criminal groups and lists of arsenals without an identified national basis were removed; state, PF and PRF records were not added without deduplication.

Committed security expenditure

Spending now identifies fiscal year, prices, government levels and accounting stage, with the Minas Gerais pension exclusion documented. The per-person amount was recalculated using the 2025 population; equivalences with sanitation and justice and the inference of effectiveness from the aggregate amount were removed.

Prison groups and territories

The count in Mapa ORCRIM’s official presentation was limited to groups affecting the prison system. The territorial study now identifies the Rio Metropolitan Region, the year 2024 and the categories control and influence, without national extrapolation or confusion between population and municipal area.

Condition of surveyed roads

The percentage now identifies CNT Survey 2025, the 114,197 km assessed and the overall-condition classes making up the 62.1%. Classification was separated from paving and is no longer extrapolated to all roads. The old national inventory without a reconstructed basis was removed.

PNL freight modal split

Shares were replaced by values from the PNL 2035 final report, with the 2017 calibration scenario, TKU unit and scope made explicit. Coastal shipping, inland waterways and remaining modes were distinguished. The modal split is no longer treated as freight charges or proof of a universal solution.

Logistics performance, LPI 2023

The approximate rank was replaced by grouped rank 51 and score 3.2, with the 139 economies and the method based on professional assessments. The edition was retained as a historical reference, without inferring a trend with the later LPI 2.0.

Water-network coverage

The indicator was reproduced in SINISA 2025 spreadsheets, reference year 2024, with 174.0 million people served out of 206.8 million residents in the 5,144-municipality dataset. The title now identifies the water supply network. Extrapolation to people without adequate access was removed; quality, continuity and alternatives were distinguished.

Sewerage-network coverage

The 62.3% was attributed to the SINISA 2025 consolidated figures, reference year 2024, with numerator and denominator reproduced. The card states that the dataset includes municipalities without reported served populations. The PDF participant scope was reconciled in count and population, without treating blank fields as zero coverage or extrapolating the national complement.

Water and sanitation investment needs

The range without a price year and the permanent annualisation were removed. The balance published in the 2026 study was not validated because it does not reconcile with the printed deductions. The text retains expansion, replacement, targets, horizon and prices as conditions of the estimate, states that the figure is pending and distinguishes need from available budget.