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Brazil
Brazil has a national ID card (CIN) that uses the CPF number and a gov.br login used widely. The central bank's Drex CBDC pilot has run since 2023 and was reportedly restructured in late 2025. Brazil rejected the 2024 IHR amendments pending congressional approval, per existing data.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Brazil
- Program
- Carteira de Identidade Nacional (CIN); gov.br
- Status
- Used by most adults
- National ID card
- ID card compulsory
- Biometrics
- Yes
- Law
- Decree 10.977/2022; Law 14.534/2023
Law 14.534/2023 makes the CPF the registry number on the CIN, replacing state-by-state RG numbers. About 3 million people held a CIN by January 2024; the first copy is free and the card has a QR code linking to other documents such as the digital driver's licence.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Pilot
- Name
- Drex
Phase one covered government securities and wholesale CBDC settlement; phase two began in November 2024. Forbes Brasil reported in November 2025 that the central bank would deactivate the blockchain platform; this rests on press reports, not a bank statement we opened.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2025-11Pushback
Press reported the central bank would switch off the Drex blockchain platform after finding it did not meet privacy and security needs. Forbes Brasil — Banco Central abandona o blockchain do Drex ↗
UN and WHO
How Brazil has voted
- WHO
- Rejected the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes · Withdrew Jan 2019 (Bolsonaro); rejoined Jan 2023 (Lula).
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 74.2 · rank 53 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 3
Left GCM 2019, rejoined 2023; rejected 2024 IHR amendments pending congressional approval.
Sovereignty score
How the -1 adds up
- +1Rejected the WHO's 2024 health-rule changes source ↗
- -1Running a CBDC pilot source ↗
- -1Government digital ID used by most adults source ↗
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Country research checked Oct 2026. Tracker data checked 11 Oct 2026. Every claim links to its source.