Brazil
Brazil in numbers
39 measures of Brazil from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.05% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$23.6B in 2025
- Military spending per person$113 in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.2% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel762,000 people in 2020
- National power2.01% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.76% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports462 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports153 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Brazil with…
- Brazil vs India
- Brazil vs China
- Brazil vs United States
- Brazil vs Indonesia
- Brazil vs Pakistan
- Brazil vs Nigeria
- Brazil vs Bangladesh
- Brazil vs Russia
- Brazil vs Ethiopia
- Brazil vs Mexico
- Brazil vs Japan
- Brazil vs Egypt
- Brazil vs Philippines
- Brazil vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Brazil vs Vietnam
- Brazil vs Iran
- Brazil vs Türkiye
- Brazil vs Germany
- Brazil vs Thailand
- Brazil vs Tanzania
- Brazil vs United Kingdom
- Brazil vs France
- Brazil vs South Africa
- Brazil vs Italy
- Brazil vs Kenya
- Brazil vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Brazil vs Colombia
- Brazil vs South Korea
- Brazil vs Sudan
- Brazil vs Spain
- Brazil vs Argentina
- Brazil vs Canada
- Brazil vs Saudi Arabia
- Brazil vs Poland
- Brazil vs Peru
- Brazil vs Venezuela
- Brazil vs Australia
- Brazil vs Chile
- Brazil vs Guatemala
- Brazil vs Ecuador
- Brazil vs Netherlands
- Brazil vs Bolivia
- Brazil vs Belgium
- Brazil vs Haiti
- Brazil vs Dominican Republic
- Brazil vs United Arab Emirates
- Brazil vs Honduras
- Brazil vs Cuba
- Brazil vs Sweden
- Brazil vs Israel
- Brazil vs Austria
- Brazil vs Switzerland
- Brazil vs Paraguay
- Brazil vs Singapore
- Brazil vs Ireland
- Brazil vs Uruguay
- Brazil vs Guyana
- Brazil vs Suriname
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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