Brazil 
Facts
Population: 190,010,647
note: Brazil conducted a census 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 underenumeration 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 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 25.3% (male 24,554,254/female 23,613,027)
15-64 years: 68.4% (male 64,437,140/female 65,523,447)
65 years and over: 6.3% (male 4,880,562/female 7,002,217) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.008% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 16.3 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 6.19 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -0.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.983 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.697 male(s)/female
total population: 0.976 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 27.62 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 31.27 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 23.78 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 72.24 years
male: 68.3 years
female: 76.38 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.88 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.7% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 660,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 15,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Brazilian(s)
adjective: Brazilian.
Ethnic groups: white 53.7%, mulatto (mixed white and black) 38.5%, black 6.2%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 0.9%, unspecified 0.7% (2000 census).
Religions: Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000 census).
Languages: Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 88.6%
male: 88.4%
female: 88.8% (2004 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.655 trillion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3.7% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $8,800 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 8%
industry: 38%
services: 54% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 96.34 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 20%
industry: 14%
services: 66% (2003 est.).
Population below poverty line: 31% (2005).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.7%
highest 10%: 31.27% (2002).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 9.6% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $244 billion
expenditures: $219.9 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (FY07 est.).
Agriculture - products: coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef.
Industries: textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, other machinery and equipment.
Industrial production growth rate: 3.2% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 546 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - consumption: 415.9 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - exports: 7 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 39 billion kWh; note - supplied by Paraguay (2005).
Exports: $137.5 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: transport equipment, iron ore, soybeans, footwear, coffee, autos.
Exports - partners: US 19.2%, Argentina 8.4%, China 5.8%, Netherlands 4.5%, Germany 4.2% (2005).
Imports: $91.4 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery, electrical and transport equipment, chemical products, oil, automotive parts, electronics.
Imports - partners: US 17.5%, Argentina 8.5%, Germany 8.4%, China 7.3%, Japan 4.6% (2005).
Debt - external: $176.5 billion (30 November 2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $30 billion (2002).
Currency (code): real (BRL).
Exchange rates: reals per US dollar - 2.1761 (2006), 2.4344 (2005), 2.9251 (2004), 3.0771 (2003), 2.9208 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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(Independent), Pantanal
http://www.pantanalnews.com.br/
(independent weekly), São Paulo
http://www.primeiraleitura.com.br
Shopping News
São Paulo
Third World
(Left-wing monthly), Rio de Janeiro
(Liberal), Rio de Janeiro
http://www.tribunadaimprensa.com.br/
(Investor business daily),
http://www.valoronline.com.br
(Centrist newsmagazine), São Paulo
http://vejaonline.abril.com.br
Brazil in the News
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Slavery was officially abolished more than a century ago, but there has never been a social inclusion policy for Brazil’s blacks. Therefore, prejudice and racism are still a problem in this nation that will have more blacks than whites until the end of 2008.
On Thursday, July 31, Brazilian authorities gave the final go ahead to the civilian nuclear power company, Electronuclear, to continue construction of the country's third nuclear power plant.
In the next seven years Brazil will double its production of ethanol and may produce almost 50 percent more sugar cane, which means building another 100 mills by 2010.
In recent weeks, the Brazilian government has turned to the difficult task of building giant hydroelectric dams in the Amazon River.
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