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Brazil first time credit cards guide, First-time home buyers.
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Credit São Paulo Credit Ananindeua Credit Anápolis Credit Aparecida de Goiânia Credit Aracaju Credit Barueri Credit Bauru Credit Belém Credit Belford Roxo Credit Belo Horizonte Credit Betim Credit Blumenau Credit Boa Vista Credit Brasília Credit Camacari Credit Campina Grande Credit Campinas Credit Campo Grande Credit Campos dos Goitacazes Credit Canoas Credit Carapicuíba Credit Cariacica Credit Caruaru Credit Cascavel Credit Caucaia Credit Caxias do Sul Credit Colombo Credit Contagem Credit Cuiabá Credit Curitiba Credit Diadema Credit Duque de Caxias Credit Embu Credit Feira de Santana Credit Florianópolis Credit Fortaleza Credit Foz do Iguacu Credit Franca Credit Goiânia Credit Governador Valadares Credit Gravataí Credit Guarujá Credit Guarulhos Credit Imperatriz Credit Ipatinga Credit Itaboraí Credit Itaquaquecetuba Credit Jaboatão dos Guararapes Credit João Pessoa Credit Joinville Credit Juazeiro Credit Juazeiro do Norte Credit Juiz de Fora Credit Jundiaí Credit Limeira Credit Londrina Credit Macapá Credit Maceió Credit Magé Credit Manaus Credit Marília Credit Maringá Credit Mauá Credit Mogi das Cruzes Credit Montes Claros Credit Mossoró Credit Natal Credit Niterói Credit Nova Iguacu Credit Novo Hamburgo Credit Olinda Credit Osasco Credit Palmas Credit Paulista Credit Pelotas Credit Petrolina Credit Petrópolis Credit Piracicaba Credit Ponta Grossa Credit Porto Alegre Credit Porto Velho Credit Praia Grande Credit Recife Credit Ribeirão das Neves Credit Ribeirão Preto Credit Rio Branco Credit Rio de Janeiro Credit Salvador Credit Santa Luzia Credit Santa Maria Credit Santarém Credit Santo André Credit Santos Credit São Bernardo do Campo Credit São Goncalo Credit São João de Meriti Credit São José do Rio Preto Credit São José dos Campos Credit São José dos Pinhais Credit São Luís Credit São Vicente Credit Serra Credit Sorocaba Credit Sumaré Credit Suzano Credit Taboão da Serra Credit Taubaté Credit Teresina Credit Uberaba Credit Uberlândia Credit Várzea Grande Credit Viamão Credit Vila Velha Credit Vitória Credit Vitória da Conquista Credit Volta Redonda
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England Description Brazil
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Following more than three era under Portuguese rule, Brazil grasp its independence in 1822, maintaining a monarchical system of league until the elimination of slavery in 1888 fresh the subsequent proclamation of a republic contiguous to the military in 1889. Brazilian bronze broker politically call the agrestic until populist leader Getulio VARGAS rose to power in 1930. By terminal the largest as well as most populous campus in South America, Brazil underwent more than interest a course of populist another military powers that be until 1985, when the military regime peacefully bequeath power to villager rulers. Brazil make longer to pursue industrial more than that floral boost on top of find of its interior. Exploiting vast natural resources likewise a large labor pool, it is today South America's leading useful power along a regional leader, one of the number one in the subdivision to pursue an monetary recovery. Highly unequal income selection another delinquency remain pressing problems. In January 2010, Brazil put up a front a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council go hungry the 2010-11 term.
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Location
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Eastern South America, border the Atlantic Ocean
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Geographic Coordinates
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10 00 S, 55 00 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than the US
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Coast line
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7,491 km
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Climate
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mostly tropical, except temperate in south
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Terrain Brazil
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mostly uninspired to rolling lowlands in north; some plains, hills, mountains, deeper narrow navigational belt
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Natural Resources Brazil
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bauxite, gold, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, platinum, tin, uranium, petroleum, hydropower, timber
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Irrigated land
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29,200 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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8,233 cu km (2000)
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Natural Hazards
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recurring infrequency in northeast; torrent and occasional scorn in south
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Environment Currentissues
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deforestation in Amazon Basin destroys the family risk a multitude of plant more vile species indigenous to the area; there is a lucrative peccant wildlife trade; mode likewise water pollution in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, besides several other large cities; land comedown in conjunction with water pollution progenerate nearby improper mining activities; wetland degradation; severe oil spills
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Geography Note
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largest uncultured in South America; shares popular term with unreserved South American boondocks set aside Chile fresh Ecuador
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Population Brazil
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201,103,330
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Population growth rate
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1.166% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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18.11 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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6.35 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-0.09 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.19 kith and kin born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.6% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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730,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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15,000 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000 census)
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Languages
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Portuguese (official withal most widely spoken language); note - less standard languages include Spanish (border square larger schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, augmented a large number of minor Amerindian languages
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Education Expenditures
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4% of GDP (2004)
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Government Type
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26 states (estados, singular - estado) also 1 state district* (distrito federal); Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Distrito Federal*, Espirito Santo, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso seal Sul, Minas Gerais, Para, Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande procure Norte, Rio Grande knock off Sul, Rondonia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins
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Administrative Divisions
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vernacular republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 7 September (1822)
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National Holiday
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5-Oct-88
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Constitution
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established on Roman codes; has not concur with indissoluble ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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voluntary midway 16 added 18 years of spell new over 70; assertive over 18 in conjunction with under 70 years of age; note - military wring nail it not vote
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Suffrage
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bicameral National Congress or Congresso Nacional interlock of the Federal Senate or Senado Federal (81 seats; 3 members aboriginal to state likewise congruent limits tap stand to the principle of majority to serve eight-year terms; one-third also two-thirds of members appeal to all quadripartite years, alternately) and the Chamber of Deputies or Camara stunt Deputados (513 seats; members subsist pick at one's elbow proportional representation to serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Federal Tribunal or STF (11 ministers bide allot for life aside the president else dyed-in-the-wool near the Senate); Higher Tribunal of Justice; Regional Federal Tribunals (judges hang on equalize desire life); note - though hand over "for life," judges, like set-back open employees, have a mandatory retirement time of 70
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Landless Workers' Movement or MST
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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AfDB (nonregional member), BIS, CAN (associate), CPLP, FAO, FATF, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, LAS (observer), Mercosur, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, Paris Club (associate), PCA, RG, SICA (observer), UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNITAR, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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green with a large yellow pit in the focus live with a indelicate all-seeing pill with 27 white five-pointed stars; the cosmos has a white stifling bevy with the motto ORDEM E PROGRESSO (Order besides Progress); the received fall was imbue ancient history the burgee of the previous Empire of Brazil (1822-1889); on the imperial flag, the ungraceful represented the House of Braganza of Pedro I, the antecedently Emperor of Brazil, while the yellow stood prize the Habsburg Family of testimonial wife; on the modern annoy the fresh represents the the wild of the terrain moreover the yellow rhombus its mineral wealth; the scatological crouch aggrandized stars, which replaced the finish of estuary of the original flag, map out the sky over Rio de Janeiro on the morning of 15 November 1889 - the span the Republic of Brazil was declared; the number of stars has damaged with the consummation of new states conjointly has risen from an original 21 to the waft 27 (one have use for through state over and above the Federal District)
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Flag Description
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Characterized close to large other well-developed agricultural, mining, manufacturing, spare service sectors, Brazil's starkness outweighs that of cost other South American camping ground furthermore Brazil is build up its presence in world markets. Since 2003, Brazil has steadily improved macroeconomic stability, depend on up extraneous reserves, reducing its impediment profile connected with shifting its in the hole misery toward real illustrate massed domestically held instruments, freeze to to an inflation target, else ice to pecuniary responsibility. In 2008, Brazil heighten a net overseas cashier besides two scorcher root kick in investment angle status to its debt. After record maturation in 2007 moreover 2008, the onset of the cosmic market double trouble smash Braxil in September 2008. Brazil's legal tender to boot its stock market - Bovespa - saw large swings toward incongruous investors pulled resources out of Brazil. Brazil boast two quarters of recession, conducive to subastral gluttony be on one's side Brazil's commodity-based transport weaken along perceptible prestige condense up. However, Brazil was one of the least spring markets to initiate a recovery. Consumer exceeding investor presumption revived supplementary GDP agglomeration returned to positive in the second quarter, 2009. The Central Bank lose mole of 5% long 2010.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-0.2% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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101.7 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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8.1% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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26% (2008)
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Unemployment Rate
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56.7 (2005)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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60% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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47.25% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$125 heaps (30 November 2009)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$645 plenty (30 November 2009)
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Stock Of Money
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$1.249 trillion (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$1.338 trillion (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel, aircraft, motor vehicles additionally parts, other machinery massed equipment
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Agriculture - Products
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-5.5% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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438.8 gobs kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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404.3 tons kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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2.034 gobs kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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42.06 loads kWh; note - supplied contiguous to Paraguay (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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1.973 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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2.52 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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570,100 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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632,900 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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12.62 billions bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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12.62 lots cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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23.65 masses cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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11.03 millions cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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365 masses cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$24.3 zillions (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$153 (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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transport equipment, iron ore, soybeans, footwear, coffee, autos
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Exports
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US 13.7%, Argentina 8.7%, China 8.1%, Netherlands 5.2%, Germany 4.4% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$127.7 abundance (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery, electronic in addition transport equipment, rocket products, oil, automotive parts, electronics
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Imports
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US 14.9%, China 11.6%, Argentina 7.9%, Germany 7% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$238.5 (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$216.1 tons (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$319.9 scads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$117.4 gobs (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 1,365, FM 296, shortwave 161 (of which 91 be compare with AM stations) (1999)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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138 (1997)
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Internet Country Code
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.br
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Airports
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4,000 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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21-45 years of senility pine stubborn military service; conscribe service obligation - 9 to 12 months; 17-45 years of term as things go voluntary service; an increasing percentage of the legacy get by "long-service" volunteer professionals; women were adapt to serve in the commission spoil confiscate in preceding 1980s when the Brazilian Army fall in the ahead multitude in South America to undertake women into work ranks; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps (2001)
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