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Key facts

  • Currency: Brazilian real
  • Capital city: Brasília
  • Region: South America
  • Continent: Americas
  • Land area: 8,358,140 km²
  • Population: 215,313,498
  • Political Leader: Jair Bolsonaro (President)

Latest news

SP-Arte turns 20--as Brazilian artists and curators take the spotlight at Venice

Read: The Art Newspaper

2024-03-28

The Japanese Sensei Bringing Baseball to Brazil

Read: The New York Times

2024-03-28

Brazilian galleries Jaqueline Martins and Se merge to form Martins&Montero

Read: The Art Newspaper

2024-03-28

Singapore charges two ex-Sembcorp Marine employees with bribing Brazilian officials almost US$44 million

Read: SCMP

2024-03-28

The Japanese Sensei Bringing Baseball to Brazil

Read: The New York Times

2024-03-28

Brazil: Lula bans official commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the coup d'etat

Read: Le Monde

2024-03-28

Brazilian envoy discusses bilateral trade with Pakistani businessmen

Read: Nation PK

2024-03-28

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 80.41 % of GDP
Expense 34.70 % of GDP
GDP 1,920,100,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 9.28 annual %
Self-employed 32.13 % of total employment
Tax revenue 14.97 % of GDP
Unemployment 9.23 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 27.80 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 2,393,700.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 10.81 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 414,139.00 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 4.72 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 13.67 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 61.85 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 2.60 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 5.04 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 12.12 % of total
Net energy imports 11.87 % of energy use
Fertility rate 1.64 births per woman
Forest area 4,953,910 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 59.11 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 -12,454.90 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 29.20 years
Methane emissions 449,214.00 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 191,103.00 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 109,580,471
Male Population 105,733,027
Renewable energy consumption 50.05 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 8,385,500.00 km²
Rural population 26,795,765
Urban land area 45,853.30 km²
Urban population 188,517,733
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 1.74 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 12.88 per 1,000 people
Death rate 8.33 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 700.71 current US$
Health expenditure 10.31 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.24 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 2.09 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 73 years
Suicide mortality rate 6.90 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 99.46 % of population
Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence 5,600
Individuals using the Internet 80.53 % of population
Net migration 6,425
Press freedom 2.38


Politics

Armed forces personnel 762,000
Democracy score 6.97
Democracy type Flawed democracy
Military expenditure 1.05 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 17.74 %


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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

License

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