Capital: Brasília
Head of State and Head of Government: President Dilma Rousseff
Surface area: 8,515 thousand sq km
Official language: Portuguese
Population: 202.8 million (Census 2014)
Currency: Brazilian Real (R$)
Brazil's GDP 2010-2015a
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015a | |
| GDP (US$bn) (current prices) | $2,209.3 | $2,613.1 | $2,412 | $2,391 | $2,353 | $1,903.9 |
| GDP PPP (US$bn) | $2,803.9 | $2,973.9 | $3,080.6 | $3,212.3 | $3,263.8 | $3,259.1 |
| GDP per capita (US$) | $11,301 | $13,238 | $12,106 | $11,894 | $11,604 | $9,312 |
| GDP per capita PPP (US$) | $14,342 | $15,065 | $15,462 | $15,979 | $16,096 | $15,941 |
| Real GDP Growth (% change yoy) | 7.6% | 3.9% | 1.8% | 2.7% | 0.1% | -1.0% |
Source: Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Brazil Fact Sheet
aIMF/EIU Forecast
18th June, 2018
Miner Anglo American clinched hundreds of permits this month to explore for copper in a remote part of northern Brazil, Brazilian authorities said, as the growing electric vehicle market and a scarcity of shovel-ready mining projects fuels demand for the metal.
14th June, 2018
Amazon.com is recruiting major Brazilian cosmetics firms Grupo Boticário and Natura Cosméticos to sell via the logistics platform it is developing in Brazil, three people familiar with talks have said, making an early play for the world’s fourth-largest beauty market.
13th June, 2018
Retail sales in Brazil rose more than expected for a second straight month in April, allaying concerns over a slowdown early in the second quarter.
12th June 2018
Embraer SA jumped the most in two months as its proposed commercial-jet venture with Boeing Co. cleared a major hurdle.
11th June, 2018
B3 SA, the sole exchange operator in Brazil, plans to buy a share of Argentina’s national bourse, its chief executive officer said, in the company’s latest push across Latin America after taking minority ownership in exchanges from Mexico to Chile in recent years.
8th June, 2018
Brazil's government auctioned off three of the four pre-salt oil fields offered in the fourth round of bidding on yesterday (Thursday 7th June), collecting R$3.15 billion (US$ 807 million).
27th March, 2018
Amazon.com and Casino Guichard Perrachon are negotiating a deal in Brazil either partnering or selling the French retailer’s local appliance and electronics chain, a source familiar with the talks said on Tuesday.
19th February, 2018
Economic activity in Brazil expanded at a faster-than-expected pace in December, capping the first annual increase in four years following the deepest recession in decades.
7th February, 2018
Marcio Appel, a 45-year-old money manager whose main fund topped 89 percent of its peers in the past year, is betting on Brazil’s benchmark stock index to double over the next 12 months.
6th February, 2018
Boeing has presented a plan to Brazil’s government that would give it an 80 to 90 percent stake in a new venture encompassing Embraer’s commercial jet business, a Brazilian newspaper reported on Tuesday.