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Geography

Location: Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean

Area:
total area: 8,511,965 sq km
land area: 8,456,510 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than the US

Land boundaries: total 14,691 km, Argentina 1,224 km, Bolivia 3,400 km, Colombia 1,643km, French Guiana 673 km, Guyana 1,119 km, Paraguay 1,290 km, Peru 1,560km, Suriname 597 km, Uruguay 985 km, Venezuela 2,200 km

Coastline: 7,491 km


People

Population: 160,737,489 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 31% (female 24,641,868; male 25,515,775)
15-64 years: 64% (female 51,966,272; male 51,254,165)
65 years and over: 5% (female 4,393,530; male 2,965,879)

Population growth rate: 1.22% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 21.16 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 8.98 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 57.2 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 61.82 years
male: 56.57 years
female: 67.32 years

Total fertility rate: 2.39 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Caucasion (includes Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) 55%, mixed Caucasion and African 38%, African 6%, other (includes Japanese, Arab,Amerindian) 1%

Religions: Roman Catholic (nominal) 70%

Languages: Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991)
total population: 80%
male: 80%
female: 80%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Federative Republic of Brazil
conventional short form: Brazil

Type: federal republic

Capital: Brasilia

Independence: 7 September 1822 (from Portugal)

Constitution: 5 October 1988


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $886.3 billion

National product real growth rate: 5.3%

National product per capita: $5,580

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1,094%

Unemployment rate: 4.9%

Electricity:
capacity: 55,130,000 kW
production: 241.4 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,589 kWh



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.