Country comparison: Brazil / Canada

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Brazil and Canada. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Brazil	Canada
Region:	South America	North America
Area:	8,515,770 km²	9,984,670 km²
National language:	Portuguese	English
Government form:	Federal presidential republic	Federal parliamentary republic (under constitutional monarchy)
Independent since:	1822 AD	1867 AD
Capital:	Brasilia	Ottawa

Population

Details for Brazil and Canada

	Brazil	Canada
Population:	214,326,000	38,246,000
Inhabitants/km²:	25.2	3.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 77 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 33.2 years	Ø 41.8 years
Birth rate:	13.08 ‰	9.40 ‰
Death rate:	7.42 ‰	8.10 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.19 ‰	5.46 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Brazil	Canada
Political stability:	37	84
Civil rights:	44	93
Health:	59	78
Climate:	65	33
Cost of Living:	44	37
Popularity:	32	45

Economy

Details for Brazil and Canada

	Brazil	Canada
Currency:	Brazilian real (1 BRL = 100 Centavos)	Canadian dollar (1 CAD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	14.4 %	7.5 %
Inflation rate:	8.30 %	3.40 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	46.91 %	105.65 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	65.10 %	24.50 %
Average income:	7,740 US$	48,310 US$
Corruption index:	62 (bad)	26 (good)

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,608,981 M US$	7.51 M US$	1,988,336 M US$	51.99 M US$
Gross national product:	1,658,600 M US$	7.74 M US$	1,847,687 M US$	48.31 M US$
Exported goods:	317,175 M US$	1.48 M US$	611,146 M US$	15.98 M US$
Imported goods:	297,924 M US$	1.39 M US$	609,256 M US$	15.93 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Brazil and Canada

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,000,000 km	9.33 km	1,042,300 km	27.25 km
Railways:	29,850 km	0.14 km	77,932 km	2.04 km
Waterways:	50,000 km	0.23 km	636 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	864	0.0040	679	0.0178
Passenger airports:	116	0.0005	234	0.0061

Energy balance

Details for Brazil and Canada

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	509.10 bn kWh	2.38 m kWh	522.20 bn kWh	13.65 m kWh
Energy production:	567.90 bn kWh	2.65 m kWh	649.60 bn kWh	16.98 m kWh
Energy export:	219.00 m kWh	1,021.81 kWh	73.35 bn kWh	1.92 m kWh
Energy imports:	41.31 bn kWh	192,743.56 kWh	2.68 bn kWh	70,124.78 kWh
CO2 emissions:	434.30 m t	2,026.35 t	580.21 m t	15,170.43 t

Telecommunication

Details for Brazil and Canada

	Brazil	Canada
International dialing:	+55	+1
Internet domain:	.br	.ca

	BRA total	BRA per 1000 inh.	CAN total	CAN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	28,883,475	135	12,928,000	338
Mobile cellulars:	219,660,524	1025	32,723,000	856
Internet server:	26,577,000	124	8,743,000	229
Internet users:	174,338,723	813	35,301,158	923
Broadband Internet:	41,504,683	194	16,452,598	430

Healthcare system

Details for Brazil and Canada

	Brazil	Canada
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.09	2.52
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.15	2.61
Diabetes:	10.4 %	7.6 %
Tuberculosis:	0.48 ‰	0.05 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	67.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	12.8 %	13.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Brazil and Canada

	Brazil	Canada
Daytime temperatures:	30.6 °C	7.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.8 °C	-2.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	72 %
Rain days:	8.8	8.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.6	5.4

Native languages

	Brazil	Canada
Portuguese:	93.2 %	0.7 %
English:	n/a	58.7 %
French:	n/a	22.0 %
Punjabi:	n/a	1.4 %
German:	0.5 %	1.3 %
Italian:	0.3 %	1.3 %
Spanish:	n/a	1.3 %
Chinese:	n/a	1.2 %
Tagalog:	n/a	1.2 %
Arabic:	n/a	1.1 %
Polish:	n/a	0.7 %
Ukrainian:	n/a	0.6 %
Dutch:	n/a	0.5 %
Russian:	n/a	0.4 %
Japanese:	0.2 %	n/a
Eskimo:	n/a	0.1 %
Quechua:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	5.7 %	7.5 %

Religions

	Brazil	Canada
Christianity:	87.5 %	67.2 %
Nondenominational:	8.0 %	23.9 %
Islam:	n/a	3.2 %
Spiritualism:	2.2 %	n/a
Hinduism:	n/a	1.5 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.4 %
Buddhism:	n/a	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.1 %
other:	2.3 %	0.6 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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