Relationship dossier
Brazil
Singapore
Relationship assessment
Brazil and Singapore built a strategic partnership with cooperation in areas including the digital economy and innovation.
Brazil toward Singapore
+40Brazil elevated ties with Singapore to a strategic partnership during President Lula’s 2023 visit and pursued bilateral cooperation through agreements and memoranda, including in the digital economy and innovation.
Singapore toward Brazil
+40Singapore elevated ties with Brazil to a strategic partnership during President Lula’s 2023 visit and pursued bilateral cooperation through agreements and memoranda, including in the digital economy and innovation.
Overall relationship
+40The strategic partnership and associated bilateral cooperation initiatives provide a substantive framework for Brazil-Singapore relations. The partnership was elevated in 2023, and its breadth and implementation are not fully clear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Brazil and Singapore elevated their relationship to a strategic partnership during Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 2023 visit to Singapore. The governments also pursued cooperation through bilateral agreements and memoranda in areas including the digital economy and innovation. The partnership reflects substantive, though relatively recent and not extensively characterized here, government-to-government cooperation.
Key developments
Brazil and Singapore elevated their relationship to a strategic partnership during President Lula’s visit, with bilateral cooperation initiatives including the digital economy and innovation.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of the bilateral cooperation agreements are unclear.
- The extent of cooperation beyond the initiatives announced in 2023 is unclear.