Country comparison: Brazil / Portugal

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

General information

	Brazil	Portugal
Region:	South America	Southern Europe
Area:	8,515,770 km²	92,226 km²
National language:	Portuguese	Portuguese
Government form:	Federal presidential republic	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	1822 AD	1143 AD
Capital:	Brasilia	Lisbon

Population

Details for Brazil and Portugal

	Brazil	Portugal
Population:	214,326,000	10,325,000
Inhabitants/km²:	25.2	112.0
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 78 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 77 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 33.2 years	Ø 44.6 years
Birth rate:	13.08 ‰	8.20 ‰
Death rate:	7.42 ‰	12.00 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.19 ‰	1.20 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Brazil	Portugal
Political stability:	46	75
Civil rights:	44	76
Health:	59	82
Climate:	65	71
Cost of Living:	41	44
Popularity:	31	38

Economy

Details for Brazil and Portugal

	Brazil	Portugal
Currency:	Brazilian real (1 BRL = 100 Centavos)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	9.5 %	5.8 %
Inflation rate:	9.28 %	7.83 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	49.77 %	69.61 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	65.10 %	39.80 %
Average income:	7,740 US$	23,890 US$
Corruption index:	62 (bad)	38 (moderate)

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	PRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,608,981 M US$	7.51 M US$	253,663 M US$	24.57 M US$
Gross national product:	1,658,600 M US$	7.74 M US$	246,714 M US$	23.89 M US$
Exported goods:	379,783 M US$	1.77 M US$	105,648 M US$	10.23 M US$
Imported goods:	375,639 M US$	1.75 M US$	112,413 M US$	10.89 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Brazil and Portugal

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	PRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,000,000 km	9.33 km	82,900 km	8.03 km
Railways:	29,850 km	0.14 km	2,526 km	0.24 km
Waterways:	50,000 km	0.23 km	210 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	864	0.0040	726	0.0703
Passenger airports:	116	0.0005	18	0.0017

Energy balance

Details for Brazil and Portugal

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	PRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.709 tn kWh	7.97 m kWh	195.91 bn kWh	18.97 m kWh
Energy consumption:	541.00 bn kWh	2.52 m kWh	48.41 bn kWh	4.69 m kWh
Energy production:	622.01 bn kWh	2.90 m kWh	52.22 bn kWh	5.06 m kWh
Energy export:	395.00 m kWh	1,842.98 kWh	6.10 bn kWh	590,500.07 kWh
Energy imports:	25.11 bn kWh	117,171.85 kWh	7.55 bn kWh	731,515.01 kWh
CO2 emissions:	434.30 m t	2,026.35 t	44.64 m t	4,323.43 t

Telecommunication

Details for Brazil and Portugal

	Brazil	Portugal
International dialing:	+55	+351
Internet domain:	.br	.pt

	BRA total	BRA per 1000 inh.	PRT total	PRT per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	28,883,475	135	5,318,750	515
Mobile cellulars:	219,660,524	1025	12,476,165	1208
Internet server:	26,577,000	124	3,748,000	363
Internet users:	174,338,723	813	8,498,528	823
Broadband Internet:	41,657,433	194	4,313,761	418

Healthcare system

Details for Brazil and Portugal

	Brazil	Portugal
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.09	3.45
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.15	3.34
Diabetes:	10.4 %	9.8 %
HIV:	0.39 %	0.14 %
Tuberculosis:	0.48 ‰	0.16 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	67.0 %	73.0 %
Smokers:	12.8 %	25.4 %

Climate

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

	Brazil	Portugal
Daytime temperatures:	30.6 °C	21.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.8 °C	13.2 °C
Water temperature:	25.6 °C	16.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	74 %
Rain days:	8.8	6.3
Sunshine hours per day:	6.6	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Brazil	Portugal
Portuguese:	93.2 %	99.0 %
German:	0.5 %	n/a
Italian:	0.3 %	n/a
Japanese:	0.2 %	n/a
Quechua:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	5.7 %	1.0 %

Religions

	Brazil	Portugal
Christianity:	87.5 %	84.3 %
Nondenominational:	8.0 %	6.8 %
Spiritualism:	2.2 %	n/a
other:	2.3 %	8.9 %

Data inventory and updates

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