Brazil

• • Brazil is the largest country in South America
  • Brazil is the largest country with Portuguese as its official language
  • Northern Brazil is dominated by the Amazon rainforest
  • Brazil has the 5th largest population in the world
• Describe the population change in Brazil between 1980 and 2020

  In 1980, Brazil had a growing population, with children under the age of 15 being the largest demographic (19.3% of the population).

  By 2020, Brazil had a stabilized population with the largest demographic being 20-40 (16% of the population).
• • Brazil has a GDP of $2 trillion (8th largest in the world). 60% is from the services sector, 5% is from the agriculture sector, and 30% is from the industrial sector.
  • However, the GDP per capita is $10,000 (65th in the world)
  • Brazil has cheap labour and raw materials.
  • Brazil's major exports include: oil seeds, mineral fuels, iron/steel, oranges, sugar (25% of the worlds supply), machinery, meat and soybeans.
• Could Brazil become one of the largest economies by 2050?

  Brazil's economy is largely comprised of services (60%), industrial (30%) and agriculture (5%). It has a GDP of $2 trillion, but a GDP of $10,000. Some of its major exports include soybeans, oil seeds, and mineral fuels. Brazil currently has a stabilized population, with the largest demographic being between 20 and 40. However, this population is soon expected to become an ageing one, and this means that Brazil is unlikely to become one of the largest economies by 2050.
• Most rainforests are located along the equator. One example of this would be the Amazon Rainforest. However, an anomaly would be the Daintree rainforest in Australia.
• • Tropical rainforests provide 20% of the worlds oxygen
  • 70% of the ingredients for cancer fighting drugs come from organisms only found in tropical rainforests
  • 30% of the Earth's species live in tropical rainforests and 10% of all the worlds biodiversity
  • The Amazon rainforest is responsible for 75% of its own rainfall
  • The Amazon rainforest has 390 billion trees which hold 86 billion tons of carbon dioxide
• • An area, the size of a football pitch, is lost every 3 seconds in a tropical rainforest due to deforestation
  • An estimated 100,000 species become extinct each year
  • In 1991, tropical rainforests covered 14% of the Earth, now they only cover 6%
• Threats to the Amazon rainforest include logging, clearing land for grazing, economic incentives for deforestation, loss of biodiversity, lack of legal enforcement and intimidation of journalists and environmentalists