| Country Information |  National name: República Federativa do Brasil
President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003)
Area: 3,286,470 sq mi (8,511,965 sq km)
Capital (2003 est.): Brasília, 2,160,100
Monetary unit: Real
Population (2005 est.):
- 186,112,794 (growth rate: 1.1%);
- birth rate: 16.8/1000;
- infant mortality rate: 29.6/1000;
- life expectancy: 71.7;
- density per sq mi: 57 | Language:
- Portuguese (official),
- Spanish,
- English,
- French |
Largest cities:
- São Paulo, 18,847,400 (metro. area),
- 10,195,000 (city proper);
- Rio de Janeiro, 11,437,100 (metro. area), 6,119,800 (city proper);
- Salvador, 2,590,400;
- Belo Horizonte, 2,347,500;
- Recife, 1,485,500;
- Porto Alegre, 1,372,700
Ethnicity/race:
- white (includes Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) 55%,
- mixed white and black 38%,
- black 6%,
- other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 1%
Religion: Roman Catholic 80%
Literacy rate: 80% (2003 est.)
Economic summary:
- GDP/PPP (2004 est.): $1.492 trillion; per capita $8,100.
- Real growth rate: 5.1%.
- Inflation: 7.6%.
- Unemployment: 11.5%.
- Arable land: 7%.
- Agriculture: coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef.
- Labor force: 89 million; services 53%, agriculture 23%, industry 24%.
- Industries: textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, other machinery and equipment.
- Natural resources: bauxite, gold, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, platinum, tin, uranium, petroleum, hydropower, timber.
- Exports: $73.28 billion (f.o.b., 2003 est.): transport equipment, iron ore, soybeans, footwear, coffee, autos.
- Imports: $48.25 billion (f.o.b., 2003 est.): machinery, electrical, and transport equipment, chemical products, oil.
- Major trading partners: U.S., Argentina, Germany, China, Netherlands, France.
Communications:
- Telephones: main lines in use: 17.039 million (1997); mobile cellular: 4.4 million (1997).
- Radio broadcast stations: AM 1,365, FM 296, shortwave 161 (of which 91 are collocated with AM stations) (1999).
- Radios: 71 million (1997).
- Television broadcast stations: 138 (1997).
- Televisions: 36.5 million (1997).
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 50 (2000).
- Internet users: 13.98 million (2002).
 Transportation:
- Railways: total: 31,543 km (1,981 km electrified) (2002).
- Highways: total: 1,724,929 km; paved: 94,871 km; unpaved: 1,630,058 km (2000).
- Waterways: 50,000 km.
- Ports and harbors: Belem, Fortaleza, Ilheus, Imbituba, Manaus, Paranagua, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande, Salvador, Santos, Vitoria.
- Airports: 3,590 (2002).
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