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Nationality: noun: Brazilian(s)
Ethnic groups: white 53.7%, mulatto (mixed white and black) 38.5%, black 6.2%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 0.9%, unspecified 0.7%
Languages:Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language)
note: less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindianlanguages
Religions: Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4%
Currency: Brazilian Real
GDP (official exchangerate): $2.493 trillion
GDP - real growth rate: 2.7% (2011 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $11,900 (2011 est.)
Labor force: 104.7 million (2011 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 20%industry: 14% services: 66%
Agriculture - products: coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef
Industries: textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel,aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, other machinery and equipment
Unemployment rate: 6% (2011 est.)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 17.8%
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 72.79 years,male: 69.24 years, female: 76.53 years (2012 est.)
Total fertility rate: 2.16 children born/woman (2012 est.)
Military branches: Brazilian Army (Exercito Brasileiro, EB), Brazilian Navy (Marinha doBrasil (MB), includes Naval Air and Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais)), Brazilian Air Force (Forca Aerea Brasileira, FAB) (2011)
Military service age and obligation: 21-45 years of age forcompulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 9 to 12 months; 17-45 years of age for voluntary service; an increasing percentage of the ranks are "long-service" volunteer professionals;women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks; women serve in Navy and Air...