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Brazil

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Brazil is a country. The capital city is Brasília, located in the South America region of Americas. It has a land area of 8,358,140 km², a population of 211,140,729 people and uses the currency Brazilian real. The President is Jair Bolsonaro.

Key facts

currency: Brazilian real
capital city: Brasília
region: South America
continent: Americas
land area: 8,358,140 km²
population: 211,140,729 people
political leader: Jair Bolsonaro (President)

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central government debt: 83.70 % of GDP
expense: 32.69 % of GDP
GDP: 2,173,665,655,937.27 current US$
inflation: 4.59 annual %
self-employed workers: 31.23 % of total employment
tax revenue: 14.15 % of GDP
unemployment: 7.95 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 27.01 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 762,000 people
democracy score: 6.97
democracy type: Flawed democracy
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 16,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 84.20 % of population
military expenditure: 1.08 % of GDP
net migration: -240,059 people
press freedom: 2.38
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 17.54 %
birth rate: 12.65 per 1,000 people
death rate: 8.14 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 761.27 current US$
health expenditure: 9.89 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.24 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 2.46 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 73
suicide mortality rate: 6.90 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 2,393,695.61 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 10.81 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 479.50 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
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: 1.63 births per woman
forest area: 4,941,960 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 59.11 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 1,300.17 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 29.90
methane emissions: 646.75 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 166.12 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 107,227,668 people
male population: 103,913,061 people
renewable energy consumption: 46.50 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 8,385,496.48 km²
rural population: 25,784,506 people
urban land area: 45,853.34 km²
urban population: 185,356,223 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 1.74 % of total population

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