 "Brazil is much more than football, samba and naked woman - Don't let these little things fool you."
Marcio Borlenghi Da Silva, BA, MBA
Brazil:
Country (long form): Federative Republic of Brazil
Capital: Brasilia
Total Area
Total: 8,511,965 sq km land: 8,456,510 sq km water: 55,455 sq km note: includes Arquipelago de Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas, Ilha da Trindade, Ilhas Martin Vaz, and Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo
Population:186,112,794
Note: Brazil took a count in August 2000, which reported a population of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower than projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied under enumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census; estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2005 est.)
Estimated Population in 2050= 206,751,477
Languages: Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French
Literacy
definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 86.4% male: 86.1% female: 86.6% (2003 est.)
Religions Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spriritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000 census)
Life Expectancy
total population: 71.69 years male: 67.74 years female: 75.85 years (2005 est.)
Government Type:
Federative republic
Currency: real (BRL)
GDP (per capita):purchasing power parity - $8,100 (2004 est.)
Labour Force: 89 million (2004 est.)
Industry
textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, other machinery and equipment
Agriculture coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef
Arable Land: 5%
Exports: $95 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports: $61 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Natural Resources
bauxite, gold, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, platinum, tin, uranium, petroleum, hydropower, timber
Telephones (main lines in use): 68.81 million (2006)
Telephones (mobile cellular):
56,373,300 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet hosts:
8,163,349 (2006)
Internet users:
6,788,100 (3.5% of the Population)
million (2009)
Facts about Brazil:
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Brazil is the 5th largest world economy.
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Brazil owns the 2nd biggest private helicopter fleet of the world.
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Brazil is the 10th largest energy consumer in the world and the largest in Latin America. At the same time it is also a large oil and gas producer in the region and the world's largest ethanol producer. Because of its ethanol fuel production Brazil has been sometimes described as a bio-energy superpower.Brazil's ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane, the world's largest crop in both production and export tonnage.
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Brazil is the third largest hydroelectricity producer in the world after China and Canada. In 2004 hydropower accounted 83% of Brazil power production.The gross theoretical capability exceeds 3,000 TWh per annum, of which 800 TWh per annum is economically exploitable. Also in 2004, Brazil produced 321TWh of hydropower, which was the third largest hydropower production in the world.The installed capacity is 59 GW.
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