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🇧🇷 Brazil
Federative Republic of Brazil
BRA BR R$ Brazilian real (BRL)
Every statistic we track for Brazil — 171 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$24,428
73.6 yrs
6.63
0.70
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.6 | #135/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.4 | #77/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 35.3 | #102/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 200.1 | #5/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 214.1 | #7/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 25.6 | #194/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 6,306 | #74/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 87.9% | #37/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 99.8% | #125/214 | 2024 |
| Broadband Internet at Home (AmericasBarometer) | 79.7% | #2/18 | 2025–2026 |
| Internet Users | 84.5% | #81/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 101.3 | #135/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 63.3% | #12/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Adult Literacy | 94.6% | #16/31 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 8 | #103/146 | 2020 |
| PIRLS Reading, Grade 4 | 418.9 | #48/53 | 2021 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 379 | #64/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 410 | #52/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 403 | #61/79 | 2022 |
| TIMSS Mathematics, Grade 4 | 400 | #52/55 | 2023 |
| TIMSS Mathematics, Grade 8 | 378 | #40/41 | 2023 |
| TIMSS Science, Grade 4 | 425 | #48/55 | 2023 |
| TIMSS Science, Grade 8 | 419.9 | #32/41 | 2023 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 2.3 | #109/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 1,481 | #75/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 53 | #47/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 87.3% | #24/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| News Avoidance (Digital News Report) | 47% | #10/48 | 2026 |
| Paying for Online News (Digital News Report) | 15% | #16/42 | 2026 |
| Press Freedom Index | 66.4 | #52/177 | 2026 |
| Social Media as News Source (Digital News Report) | 53% | #24/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in News (Digital News Report) | 36% | #23/48 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Feel Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (AmericasBarometer) | 26.1% | #17/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.5 | #32/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 23.5 | #20/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 15.7 | #72/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (AmericasBarometer) | 59.5% | #6/20 | 2025–2026 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 95.4% | #5/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 42.1% | #86/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 6.3 | #49/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 27.5% | #65/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 18.1% | #12/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 5.1 | #54/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 48.3 | #97/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 12.9 | #44/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 91.4% | #2/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.6 | #32/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1 | #57/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.6 | #70/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #99/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.5 | #90/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #70/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.4 | #59/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.8 | #84/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 16.6% | #28/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 80.7% | #87/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 80% | #62/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 38 | #36/65 | 2010 |
| Interpersonal Trust (Latinobarómetro) | 5% | #17/17 | 2024 |
| Left–Right Self-placement | 6.4 | #7/53 | 2011–2024 |
| Long-term Orientation | 65 | #7/26 | 2010 |
| Masculinity | 49 | #35/65 | 2010 |
| People in the Neighbourhood Are Trustworthy (AmericasBarometer) | 72.1% | #4/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Power Distance | 69 | #20/65 | 2010 |
| Secular Values | 0.3 | #38/64 | 2022 |
| Self-Expression Values | 0.5 | #19/64 | 2022 |
| Signed a Petition | 30.3% | #27/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 7.7% | #80/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 4.3 | #77/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 3.7 | #127/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 3 | #105/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 64.2% | #111/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 59.3% | #93/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.6 | #101/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 76 | #27/65 | 2010 |
| Voting Makes a Difference | 80.5% | #6/54 | 2011–2024 |
| Who Is in Power Makes a Difference | 77.5% | #9/51 | 2011–2021 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.