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Brazil

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

LOCATION

  • Brazil is located in eastern South
  • America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean
Photo by Mateo Hos

AREA

  • The total area is 5,514,877 square kilometers.
  • Brazil is the 5th biggest country in the world.
Photo by Fr Antunes

LAND USE

  • The land area is 8,459,417 square kilometers.
  • Arable land: 8.45%
  • Permanent crops: 0.83%
  • Other: 90.72%
  • 54,000 kilometers of irrigated land.
Photo by CIFOR

ENVIRONMENT

  • The deforestation in the Amazon basin is destroying
  • habitats of plant and animal species.
  • There is lucrative illegal wildlife trade.
  • There is air and water pollution in large cities.
  • There are also oil spills, wetland degradation, and water pollution.
Photo by kevin dooley

AGE STRUCTURE

  • 0-14: 23.8%
  • 15-24: 16.5%
  • 25-54: 43.7%
  • 55-64: 8.4%
  • 65+: 7.6%
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LITERACY RATE

  • 90.4% of the total population
  • over the age of 15 can read and write.
  • 90.1% are men and 90.7% are female.
Photo by mariskar

POPULATION GROWTH RATE

  • In 2014, the population growth rate is 0.8%
  • Brazil is 137th in the world for population
  • growth rate.
Photo by Diego3336

LIFE EXPECTANCY

  • Total populaton: 73.28 years
  • Country comparison to the world: 126th
  • Male: 22.47 deaths /1,000 live births
  • Female: 15.78 deaths/1,000 live births
Photo by LordKhan

LANGUAGES

  • Portuguese is the official and most widely spoken
  • language in brazil.
  • Other less common languages include Spanish,
  • German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large
  • number of miner Amerindian languages.
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POPULATION BELOW POVERTY LINE

  • The population below poverty line is 21.4%
  • Official Brazilian data show 4.2% of the populatiom
  • being below the "extreme" poverty line.
Photo by Franco Folini

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

  • The unemployment rate in 2013 was 5.7%
  • It is 54th in the most unemployments
  • The unemployment in 2012 was 5.5%
Photo by dannybirchall

AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS

  • The agriculture products they have are coffee,
  • soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa,
  • citrus, and beef.
Photo by Monica's Dad