Brazil

 LOCATION: Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean

AREA: 8,514,877 sq km

CAPITAL: Sao Paulo

POPULATION: 198,739,269

BIRTH RATE: 18.43 births/1,000

DEATH RATE: 6.35 deaths/1,000

LIFE EXPECTANCY: 71.99 years

RELIGION – Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/Voodoo .3%, other 1.8%, unspecified .2%, none 7.4%

LANGUAGES: Portuguese (official), Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, English.

LITERACY: age 15 and above can read and write (male:88.4%) (Female: 88.8%)