Est. Population: 190,010,647 (July 2007 est.)

Land Area: slightly smaller than the US

Literacy Rate: 88.6%

Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean

white 53.7%, mulatto (mixed white and black) 38.5%, black 6.2%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 0.9%, unspecified 0.7% (2000 census)

Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000 census)

The Free Methodist Sponsorship Program in Brazil began in 1980.  School begins the first of March and ends the middle of December.

 

CIA World Factbook: Brazil