Brazil
Every metric we have, president by president, since 1956.
In office
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva since 1 January 2023
Party positions
Across, the economy: left parties want the state to play an active role, right parties a smaller one. Up and down, social values: progressive parties favour more personal freedoms, conservative ones order, tradition and religion. Point at a logo for the party’s views and its numbers.
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How this survey placed the parties
Things to keep in mind
- These are estimates. Experts placed the parties: the parties did not place themselves, and no votes are counted.
- Each survey shows one moment. PREPPS asked in 2018 and 2019, the Global Party Survey in 2019 and CHES in 2020. Parties have changed since: Bolsonaro joined PL at the end of 2021, and PSL and DEM merged into União Brasil in 2022.
- The surveys do not always agree. They asked different experts different questions. Switch the survey to see how far a party moves: PSDB, for one, sits near the centre on the economy in two surveys and clearly right of it in PREPPS.
- Small parties are missing. Parties with fewer than two deputies and no senator are left out, and a few parties had few experts placing them: the tooltip says how many.
- Two axes leave a lot out. A party can be left on one issue and right on another, and parties can be divided inside or change course with their leaders.
- Some places are inferred. Each survey placed only the parties it chose. Relevant parties it left out have an inferred place, marked with an asterisk (*): an estimate from another survey, which can be further off than the survey's own places, above all at the ends of the scale.
- The views come from Wikipedia, not the surveys. In the tooltip, the position and ideologies are how Wikipedia describes the party today.
Positions: PREPPS Latam, CHES Latin America and the Global Party Survey, as each survey's notes describe. Inferred places: Bolognesi, Ribeiro and Codato, a 2018 survey of Brazilian political scientists (Harvard Dataverse, CC0). Views: Wikipedia, linked from each party. Logos: Wikimedia Commons, all in the public domain.
Seats in Congress
One dot is one seat. The parties sit from left to right by where 571 political scientists placed them on one left-right scale in 2022; parties without a place sit last.
Today's count is the house as it is: a member who changed party counts for the new one, and a substitute in office for the member they stand in for.
The members just elected take office on 1 February 2027, each with the party they ran for. In the Senate, the senators whose terms run on count with the party they have today. A senator elected to another office, such as governor, hands the seat to a substitute, who may sit for another party.
The blocs join the seven bands that Bolognesi, Ribeiro and Codato drew on a left-right scale from 0, the far left, to 10, the far right. Left: up to 3, the far left and the left. Centre: 3.01 to 7, from the centre-left to the centre-right. Right: above 7, the right and the far right. In 2022 no party fell in the centre band itself, 4.5 to 5.5. PRD, founded after the survey by PTB and Patriota, takes the average of the two; a party founded later has no score.
Seats: the open data of the Câmara dos Deputados, the Senado Federal and the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (CC BY). Left and right: Bolognesi, Codato, Ribeiro and Silva's survey of Brazilian political scientists (Harvard Dataverse, CC0), with the bands of Bolognesi, Ribeiro and Codato (Dados, 2023).
Years of schooling · Mean years of schooling
Average years adults spent in school, and the years a child can expect today.
Source: UNDP, Human Development Report 2025 (updated HDR25) · fetched 26 Oct 2026
A year counts for whoever was in office on 1 July. A term's change runs from the year before it began to its last year with data. The years above, or a name in the timeline, set the years of the chart and of every list below. The dashed line and the small change under each term are the comparison group, over the same years. BRICS, the G7 and the G20 are the average of their member countries, and count only in years when every member has data.
Ranked by the average change per year: the best first, or the highest where neither direction is better. Only years with data count. For growth that multiplies, like GDP, the average compounds; other changes are divided by the years.
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Leaders, dates and parties: Wikipedia, compiled by Data Mechanics · loaded 26 Oct 2026. Party logos from Wikimedia Commons; PSD logo by Dr. Phillip Who, CC BY 4.0; PTB logo by Dr. Phillip Who, CC BY 4.0.
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