page_title: 2014 Brazilian economic crisis
section_title: Emigration
hierarchical_section_title: 2014 Brazilian economic crisis / Consequences / Emigration
caption_attribution_description: English: Quantidade de declarações de saída definitiva do Brasil
context_page_description: From mid-2014 onward, Brazil experienced a severe economic crisis. The country's Gross Domestic Product fell by 3.5% in 2015 and 3.3% in 2016, after which a small economic recovery began. That recovery continued until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact Brazil.
  The economic crisis occurred alongside a political crisis that resulted in the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff. Together these events caused mass popular dissatisfaction with the political system. In the first quarter of 2017, Brazil's GDP rose by 1%. This was the first GDP increase to occur in eight consecutive quarters. Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles announced that Brazil had "emerged from the greatest crisis of the century". However, the rise in GDP marked only the end of a technical recession, not the end of the crisis.
  During the economic crisis, high unemployment rates were reported throughout the country, and there was widespread uncertainty regarding Brazil's economic future following a series of political scandals. The recession was the second most severe in the country's history, and was followed by the slowest recovery.
context_section_description: The number of declarations of definitive departure from the country began to grow in the first year of crisis and has increased steadily ever since, according to Receita Federal. Among the countries that received the most Brazilian citizens were Japan and Canada, which, due to low unemployment and aging populations among other reasons, needed a boost to decrease the age of the workforce.
  According to a JBJ Partners employee (a company specialized in expatriation to the United States), many who fled Brazil were qualified workers:
  We're talking about qualified people. The profile of the immigrant is no longer that of the poor individual looking for better opportunities. They are high executives, who are abandoning their careers to open a business abroad, people with Ph.D., which is sad because the country is losing resources.
  — Jorge Botrel, a JBJ partner.
  An OECD report shows an even higher number . In 2016 80,000 Brazilians emigrated legally to one of the member states of the OECD, whereas 99,000 did so in 2017. Similarly, data from Receita Federal shows that the number of people leaving Brazil increased in consecutive years since the beginning of the crisis.
caption: Number of declarations of definite emigration from the country. Source:Receita Federal.[35]
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