Brazil has recorded 9,215 new millionaires in 2025, with an increase of 2.4% compared to the previous year. This is revealed by the Global Wealth Report 2026 published by UBS, a Swiss bank specializing in investments and wealth management.
Thanks to this growth, approximately 386,000 Brazilians they ended the year with a net worth of more than 1 million dollars (about 5.1 million reais).
Global wealth continues to grow
According to the report, the number of millionaires has reached record levels worldwide. By 2025, global wealth is expected to increase by 10.8%, the best result in recent years and the third consecutive increase after the +4.2% recorded in 2023 and the +4.6% in 2024.
Growth was supported by positive performance in financial markets, the increase in the value of non-financial assets – particularly real estate – and the weakening of the dollar against various currencies, a factor that contributed to increasing the value of assets when converted into the US currency.
Over the course of 2025 alone the world has thus gained nearly a million new dollar millionaires, bringing the total to 57.5 million people, equal to an average of approximately 2,700 new millionaires per day.
Inequality remains high
Despite increasing wealth, global wealth remains highly concentrated. The study highlights that just1.5% of the adult population has a net worth equal to or greater than that required to enter the millionaire category, while approximately 42% of adults has a net wealth lower than 10,000 dollars (about 52 thousand reais).
In Brazil the phenomenon is even more marked. In fact, the country records a Gini coefficient equal to 0.81, The fourth highest value among the 56 countries analyzed, preceded only by United Arab Emirates, Russia And South Africa.
The Gini index measures the degree of wealth concentration: it varies from zero to one, and the closer it is to zero, the more equitable the distribution of wealth; conversely, values close to one indicate a strong concentration of wealth in the hands of a minority.
Average wealth and median wealth
The report also compares the average wealth and the median wealth for adults.
Average wealth is obtained by dividing total wealth by the number of adults and can be strongly influenced by the presence of large estates.
Median wealth, on the other hand, represents the assets of the person who is exactly at the center of the distribution and is considered by UBS to be a more faithful indicator of the real economic situation of the population, since it is less affected by the effect of multimillionaires and billionaires.
In the case of Brazil, the gap between these two indicators highlights how a small number of individuals with very high wealth significantly raise the national average, while the majority of the population has much lower wealth.
Mainly financial assets, but debt weighs heavily
The survey also shows that 73.3% of the gross wealth of Brazilian families It consists of financial assets, such as investments, stocks, and other savings instruments. This share is higher than that recorded in several advanced economies, including Japan And Germany.
At the same time, Brazil is the country where the weight of debt on gross assets is the highest among those analysed: debts in fact represent the 23.4% of gross wealth.
UBS also clarifies that being a millionaire doesn’t necessarily mean having a million dollars in cash. Net worth includes real estate, company shares, financial investments, pension funds, and other assets.
In many cases, crossing the million-dollar threshold simply results from the appreciation in value of a property or investment over time, without that wealth being immediately available to spend.
United States leads, Brazil leads in Latin America
At the international level, the United States continue to dominate the ranking of the great wealthiest. The country concentrates almost half of the new millionaires created in 2025 and has over 23.6 million millionaires.
There China occupies second place with approximately 5.3 million of millionaires.
In Latin America, The Brazil is confirmed as the country with the highest number of dollar millionaires, ahead of Mexico and other economies in the region.
Published annually for 17 years, the Global Wealth Report analyzes the evolution of adult wealth in 56 countries and territories, which represent more than 92% of the world’s wealth.
To carry out the study, UBS uses data from international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, theOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations, in addition to the information provided by central banks and national statistical institutes.
Unlike income- or wage-based analyses, the ratio measures the net worth of adults, calculating the total value of assets owned net of all family debts.