Where Do Foreigners Invest in Brazil? Interactive Data Dashboard
Every investor-residency approval in Brazil is published in the Diário Oficial da União (DOU), the country's official federal gazette. StartBrazil reads these publications and records each approval as it appears — the pathway used, the applicant's nationality, and the legal basis cited in the decision.
Approvals are classified into Brazil's three investor-residency pathways: the startup investor route (RN 13/2017, Art. 3), the company investor route (RN 13/2017), and the real estate investor route (RN 36/2018). The dataset runs from 2018 through Q2 2026. In 2025 alone, Brazil approved 516 investor residencies for applicants from 45 countries — 273 through real estate, 239 through company investment, and 4 through the startup route.
Because the dataset is built from primary government records rather than surveys or estimates, it covers every approval Brazil granted — not a sample. We update it as new decisions are published and use it to answer practical questions: which nationalities use which pathway, how approval volumes are trending year over year, and where each route fits.
A CGIL despacho in the Diário Oficial da União — the primary source behind every record in the dataset.
