According to businesscarriers, Brazilian GDP 502 billion US dollars (1.6% of world GDP), GDP per capita – 2908 dollars (2001). Unemployment 10.5%, inflation – 12.5% ​​(2002). Sectoral structure of the economy: services 56.8% of GDP, industry 33.9%, agriculture 9.3% (2001). In the structure of employment, the share of agriculture is relatively higher – 23.1%, while […]

Today the Brazilian GDP represents almost half of the entire GDP of the South American states and, together with the other member countries of the BRICS group, contributes to making up almost a quarter of the value of the world economy. These data demonstrate the progress achieved by Brazil from a production point of view and […]

Despite the great potential wealth of the country, the return on production is low, as a result of insufficient general and technical knowledge, the great spread of chronic diseases, inadequate nutrition, and also due to corporate and national organization defects, among which the deficiency of the means of communication and transport, the persistence of primitive […]

The Jesuit missionaries, who during the century XVI explained their activity in the evangelization of the country in Brazil, they often used the autos, a species of religious mysteries, for their propaganda, and in these compositions they often mixed the two languages, Portuguese and indigenous, interspersing the text with songs and music. Fathers Manuel da […]

An important expedition, carried out in 1942 under the direction of Gilvandro Simas Pereira, in the Jalapão region located in central Brazil, established that the area is not the meeting point of the borders of the 4 states of Bahia, Goyaz, Piauhy, Maranhão, as was generally believed and that the Veredão, previously described as a […]

European Immigration. – We do not know what was the number of the indigenous population existing in Brazil at the time of the discovery, as the data we have on the extent of the two distinct elements, the Portuguese white and the African black, who gathered there throughout the period are very scarce. colonial: only […]

Population growth in Brazil, for a long time, was much less intense than in other large American countries better susceptible to agricultural exploitation. In the last decades of the 20th century, however, the increase was remarkable, considering that there were only 71 million Brazilians in 1960. The annual growth rate is still just over 1% […]

She prevailed against the PSDB candidate José Serra (* 1942), who received 44% of the vote. This was the first time that a woman was elected to the presidency. The parties supporting Rousseff achieved a clear majority of the seats in the parliamentary elections in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. On January […]

The development 1945–1985 The opposition to Vargas’ dictatorial government resulted in his overthrow in 1945. Under the elected President General Eurico Gaspar Dutra (* 1885, † 1974), who was in office from 1946–51, the 1946 constitution re-introduced a democratic system of government. In 1950, Vargas was re-elected as president (took office in 1951). He pursued […]

As a country of South America defined by thesciencetutor, org, Brazil has a common history with other South American countries (South America). Colonial times The Portuguese P. A. Cabral reached the Brazilian coast on April 22nd, 1500 near the future Bahia and took it on May 1st. owned for Portugal. Initially, the Portuguese only used […]