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What do economic, political, environmental and social factors mean? Does anyone know about population change in Brazil????

Answer 1

186,112,794 (July 2005 est.)
note: Brazil took a count in August 2000, which reported a population of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower than projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census; estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected

Age structure:
0-14 years: 26.1% (male:24,789,495; female:23,842,715)
15-64 years: 67.9% (male:62,669,392; female:63,719,631)
65 years and over: 6% (male:4,549,552; female:6,542,009) (2005)

Median age:
total: 27.81 years
male: 27.06 years
female: 28.57 years (2005)

Population growth rate:
1.06% (2005 est.)

Birth rate:
16.83 births / 1,000 population (2005 est.)

Death rate:
6.15 deaths / 1,000 population (2005 est.)

Net migration rate:
-0.03 migrant(s) / 1,000 population (2005 est.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female (2005)
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female (2005)
15-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female (2005)
65 years and over: 0.7 male(s)/female (2005)
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2005)

Infant mortality rate:
total: 29.61 deaths / 1,000 live births (2005 est.)
male: 33.37 deaths / 1,000 live births
female: 25.66 deaths / 1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total: 71.69 years (2005 est.)
male: 67.74 years
female: 75.85 years

Total fertility rate:
1.93 children born/woman (2005 est.)

HIV/AIDS — adult prevalence rate:
0.7% (2003 est.)

HIV/AIDS — people living with HIV/AIDS:
660,000 (2003 est.)

HIV/AIDS — deaths:
15,000 (2003 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Brazilian(s)
adjective: Brazilian

Ethnic groups:
white 53.7%, mulatto 38.5% (mixed white and black), black 6.2%, other 0.9% (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian), unspecified 0.7% (2000)

Religions:
Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spriritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000)

Languages:
Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 86.4%
male: 86.1%
female: 86.6% (2003)

Economy
According to the CIA World Factbook, Brazil has the ninth largest economy in the world at purchasing power parity as of 2006. Brazil has a diversified middle income economy with wide variations in levels of development. Most large industry is concentrated in the south and south east. The north east is traditionally the poorest part of Brazil, but it is beginning to attract new investment. Brazil embarked on a successful economic stabilization program, the Real Plan (named for the new currency, the real; plural: reais) in July 1994. Inflation, which had reached an annual level of nearly 5,000% at the end of 1993, fell sharply, reaching a low of 2.5% in 1998; it was 6% in 2000. Brazil successfully shifted from an essentially fixed exchange rate regime to a floating regime in January 1999.

Environment:

Brazil's Amazon rainforest comprises 30% of the world's remaining tropical forests and, besides providing shelter to one tenth of the world's plant and animal species, acts as a significant mechanism (carbon "sink") for removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. According to the World Bank, an intact acre of Amazon rainforest sequesters about 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide annually

Brazil is a leader in Latin America in the use of renewable energy sources, namely hydroelectricity and ethanol. Although the country's energy shortage in 2001 forced the government to begin restructuring its energy mix, hydroelectricity will remain the main source of electric power in the short-to mid-term. The government continues to struggle with introducing more expensive new thermal power plants (natural gas) into a system dominated by low-cost hydroelectric plants.

Read more
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/brazenv.html

Answer 2

Brazil population is changing fast, as you can see by the following figures (millions of inhabitants)
1980 = 120
1991 = 140
1996 = 160
2000 = 170
2006 = 190
Women represents 52% of the totals.
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