IMF raises Brazil's growth projections in 2026 and 2027, predicting slowdown next year

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced this Wednesday (8) that it improved its projections for Brazil's economy in 2026 and 2027, but began to see a slowdown in activity next year, according to a report.
The update of the Global Economic Perspective report showed that the IMF now sees an expansion of 2.4% of Gross Domestic Product this year, above the 1.9% calculated in April.
For next year, the Fund raised its estimate by 0.2 percentage points, but the expected growth rate of 2.2% is still below that of 2026.
The Minister of Finance, Dario Durigan, had already announced last week that the IMF would readjust the projection for Brazil's economy in 2026.
The expected performance now for this year is slightly above the 2.3% increase in GDP that Brazil recorded in 2025, which was the worst since 2020, according to IBGE data.
In the first quarter of this year, Brazilian GDP grew 1.1% compared to the three immediately previous months, the strongest quarterly result in a year.
The IMF's projection for this year is better than that of the Ministry of Finance, which predicted in May an expansion of 2.3%, and that of the Central Bank, of 2.0%.
The Fund's accounts are also more optimistic than those of the market, which sees growth of 1.99% in 2026 and 1.69% in 2027, according to the most recent Focus survey released by the BC.
For Latin America and the Caribbean, the IMF now sees expansion of 2.4% in 2026 (an increase of 0.1 percentage point over the estimate in April) and 2.7% in 2027 (stable) value of technology", said the IMF.

Source: G1