Brazil scores 48 out of 100 on Bullrun's six-pillar economic stress index, which places it in the "Elevated" band. The score draws on 10 of the 10 indicators held here, covering 6 of 6 pillars. The freshest reading is from 2026-08; the oldest that feeds the score is from 2025.
Economic stress score
Composite stress48 / 100Elevated
Pillars covered6 / 6
Indicators scored10 / 10
Pillar
Stress
Band
Indicators scored
Labour
21 / 100
Calm
2 / 2
Housing
34 / 100
Watch
1 / 1
Credit
62 / 100
Stretched
2 / 2
Fiscal
87 / 100
Stretched
2 / 2
External
45 / 100
Elevated
1 / 1
Cycle
36 / 100
Watch
2 / 2
Higher is more stressed. A pillar holding readings but scoring none - every one stale - shows "n/a" rather than zero.
Labour
Indicator
Latest
Period
Source
Stress
How it is scored
Unemployment rate
6%
2025
IMF
35
Scored on a fixed cross-country scale
Unemployment momentum
-0.9pp
2025
IMF
6
Change against a year earlier
Housing
Indicator
Latest
Period
Source
Stress
How it is scored
Real house prices, YoY
5.39%
2026-Q1
BIS
34
Scored on a fixed cross-country scale
Credit
Indicator
Latest
Period
Source
Stress
How it is scored
Credit-to-GDP gap
0.72pp
2026-Q1
BIS
24
Scored on a fixed cross-country scale
Household credit (% of GDP)
38%
2026-Q1
BIS
99
Scored against its own last 80 quarters
Fiscal
Indicator
Latest
Period
Source
Stress
How it is scored
Government debt (% of GDP)
93.3%
2025
IMF
93
Scored against its own last 20 years
Fiscal balance (% of GDP)
-8.1%
2025
IMF
81
Scored on a fixed cross-country scale
External
Indicator
Latest
Period
Source
Stress
How it is scored
Current account (% of GDP)
-3%
2025
IMF
45
Scored on a fixed cross-country scale
Cycle
Indicator
Latest
Period
Source
Stress
How it is scored
Real GDP growth
1.92%
2026-Q2
OECD
29
Scored on a fixed cross-country scale
Consumer inflation
4.22%
2026-08
OECD
42
Scored on a fixed cross-country scale
How this score is built
Each indicator is turned into a 0-100 stress reading, either on a fixed cross-country scale or - where a raw level means different things in different economies - as a percentile against that country's own twenty-year history. Readings average into six pillars, and the pillars into the composite.
Three rules keep a thinly-covered country from looking calm: a country covering fewer than 4 of 6 pillars is refused a composite rather than given a low one; coverage is printed on the face of the score rather than hidden in a footnote; and a stale reading stays visible with its date, marked not scored, instead of being dropped.
Indicators come from OECD, BIS, IMF and World Bank releases at their published frequencies, so the periods above genuinely differ from row to row - a monthly unemployment print and an annual current-account balance can be more than a year apart. See the data license.