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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Afinal
(Centrist weekly), São Paulo
(Independent), São Paulo
http://agenciacartamaior.uol.com.br
(cultural weekly), São Paulo
http://bravonline.uol.com.br/
(weekly celebrity magazine), São Paulo
http://www.caras.com.br
(left-wing monthly),
http://www.carosamigos.com.br
(Left-wing magazine), São Paulo
http://www.cartacapital.com.br
(Science monthly), São Paulo
http://www.uol.com.br/cienciahoje/
Brazil in the News
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Kenneth Rapoza reports that despite Social Democrat candidate José Serra's scare tactics, Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva looks poised to win the elections on Sunday.
If Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected president of Brazil, as it looks like he will, it will be proof that Latin American democracy is alive and well, Kenneth Rapoza reports from Sao Paulo.
After its marked failure in the Asian crisis of 1998, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is under scrutiny by the world financial community for not heeding the warnings about the possibility that the Argentine crisis would infect the economies of the region.
The murder of PT (Workers’ Party) mayors Celso Daniel and Antonio da Costa Santos (Toninho) in São Paulo, and the kidnapping and subsequent release of advertising magnate Washington Olivetto by an international gang of left-wing guerrillas, caused fear and confusion about the perpetrators’ identity, their motivations, and how the crimes were related.
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