Brazilian industrial production rose 0.7 percent in April 2026 compared to March, according to seasonally adjusted data. It was the fourth consecutive month of growth, accumulating a 4.4 percent increase over the period.

The data come from the Monthly Industrial Survey, released this Wednesday (Jun. 3) by the Brazilian government’s statistics agency IBGE.

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With this result, the industry is 4.7 percent above the pre-pandemic level (February 2020), but remains 12.9 percent below the record high reached in May 2011.

Brazilian industry grew 1.7 percent between January and April 2026 compared to the same period last year.

Growth

The highlights were the extractive industries (3.1%) and the coke, petroleum products and biofuels (3.1%) segments, both growing for the fifth consecutive month.

“In these sectors, the main positive drivers came from crude oil, natural gas, and iron ore in the extractive sector and from ethanol and petroleum products, especially diesel, in the petroleum products and biofuels sector,” explained research manager André Macedo.

According to IBGE, other positive contributions to growth came from rubber and plastic products (3.1%), wood products (8.5%), textile products (4.1%), and electrical machinery, equipment, and materials (2.2%).

Decline

On the other hand, among the 11 sectors that saw a decline in production, the chemical products sector (-3.9%) had the largest impact during the month.

“Also noteworthy are the negative impacts of the pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical chemical products (-6.0%), machinery and equipment (-2.9%), motor vehicles, trailers and bodies (-0.7%), and metallurgy (-1.0%) sectors,” said IBGE.