About 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