Processed plastics industry workforce in Brazil 2008-2021
production of processed plastics in Brazil amounted to 7.1 million metric tons in 2021.
Employment in the processed plastics industry in Brazil has been on a mostly growing tendency in recent years, after a 14 percent drop between 2014 and 2016, following an economic crisis which hit Brazil in the former year. In 2021, the sector employed approximately 337 thousand people, up from 306 thousand employees in 2016. Meanwhile, the