12 interesting facts about Brazil Bashny.Net

1. The average annual per capita income in Brazil is 11 thousand US dollars (for comparison, in the United States, the figure is 28 thousand dollars).

2. The total area of ​​the country - 8857000 926 square kilometers, thus, on its territory could fit 2, 5 India (3 million 269 thousand 350 square kilometers).

3. The average life of Brazilian children spend seven years behind a desk.





4. Brazil ranks third in the world for the consumption of cosmetics. According to experts, the cosmetics market is $ 43 billion a year. In the US, the figure is $ 68 billion, while in Japan - $ 47 billion. In the production of personal care products, perfumes and cosmetics in 1367 are currently companies.

5. Brazil produces 50% of the orange juice and 20% of the world sugar.

6. With a gross domestic product (GDP) at 2, $ 3 trillion, Brazil is now the seventh largest economy in the world. Its GDP is the sum of the GDP of South Africa, Argentina and Australia.

7. The level of bureaucracy in the country is characterized by this fact: for permission to start construction work in Brazil on average takes about a year (for comparison, for example, in Mexico, this period is 82 days)

8. Brazil accounted for one third of the coffee produced in the world (55, 9 million standard 60-kg bags)

9. As for the beef market, Brazil is firmly holds the first position among world producers.

10. Among the "crime capital" that make up the sad thirty of the most dangerous cities in the world to live, eleven are in Brazil.

11. But the measure of the number of people using modern means of communication to the optical fibers, is only 0, 1%.

12. It is no secret that football is the most important part of the modern national culture of Brazil. In the history of world football championships Brazilian national team became the champion five times: in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002.