Construction sector's share of GDP in Brazil 2013-2022

The contribution of the construction industry to the gross domestic product (GDP) in Brazil dropped slightly in 2022. While the construction industry made up 6.5 percent of the GDP in 2022, it dropped to 6.2 in 2022. Those figures have fluctuated a lot in the past years. One of the causes of that decrease may be the turmoil in which the industry has been in the years after 2014. That year, executives of some of the major companies in the sector were charged with corruption and money laundering in an investigation named "Operation Car Wash". In addition to that, the economic recession that hit the country that same year and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 have also had an impact in the industry.