Brazil’s retail sales rose just 0.2% year-on-year in February 2026, well below forecasts of 1.2% and sharply down from January’s 2.8% gain, with three sectors expanding and three contracting. Pharmaceutical, medical, orthopedic, and personal care items led growth at 2.1%, followed by hypermarkets, supermarkets, food, beverages, and tobacco at 1.5%, and office equipment, IT, and communications resale up a modest 0.2%. Declines came from books, newspapers, magazines, and stationery (-4.1%), furniture and appliances (-1.2%), and fuels and lubricants (-0.2%). source: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)
Retail Sales in Brazil increased 0.20 percent in February of 2026 over the same month in the previous year. Retail Sales YoY in Brazil averaged 3.17 percent from 2001 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 23.70 percent in April of 2021 and a record low of -17.10 percent in April of 2020. This page provides - Brazil Retail Sales YoY - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Brazil Retail Sales YoY - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2026.
Retail Sales in Brazil increased 0.20 percent in February of 2026 over the same month in the previous year. Retail Sales YoY in Brazil is expected to be 3.20 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Brazil Retail Sales YoY is projected to trend around 3.00 percent in 2027, according to our econometric models.