The tourism sector in Brazil has significant growth potential thanks to the country’s sector-relevant natural resources, which were recognised as the🦋 most abundant in the world in the 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report by the World ...

In 2017, electric power consumption in Brazil rose by 0.8% y/y, the first increase in three years, as the country emerged from one of its deepest recessions in decades. The positive trend continued in 2018🙈, when the uptick in electricity demand ...

Brazil’s 208mn population has given rise to a sizeable healthcare sector and to the sixth 🦩largest pharmaceutical market in the world. In 2017, ret🥂ail drug sales, based on pharmacy purchase price (PPP), rose by 11.7% y/y to BRL 56.8bn, supported ...

After the recession🐲 of 2015-2016, economic activity started to grow in 2017, although at a tepid pace. The central bank init🌺iated a monetary policy easing cycle in October 2016 and took rates from 13.75% to 6.5% as of October 2018. The economic ...

Latin America is 🍌well integrated in the global automotive supply chain, being an important manufacturing and export hub for motor vehicles – the legacy of active government policies for the development of domestic production and comprehensive ...

Between 2008 and 2017, Brazil’s oil output expanded at a strong CAGR of 4.2%, outperforming most of the top ten largest crude producers in the world. ﷽As a result, in 2017, the country ranked 10th globally in terms of production volume with a 3% ...

With an output of 34.4mn tonnes, 🌃Braz✨il was the world’s ninth-largest crude steel manufacturer and its fifth-biggest net steel exporter in 2017. The country also plays a central role in the global non-ferrous metals processing sector, being the ...

Brazil’s insurance secto꧃r displayed high resilience to the deep economic recession that the country experienced during the 2015-2016 period, recording double-digit growth rates in premium income. The sector continued to expand in 2017 ...

The food and beverage industry is Brazil’s largest manufacturing sector, accounting for about a quarter of its value added ♑and for 3% of the country’s GDP in 2017, according to ABIA, the Brazilian 🥃;Association of Food Industries. ...

Brazil is among the global leaders in renewable energy genera𒊎tion, having ꦇthe world’s largest biomass power capacity, and ranking third and ninth, respectively, in terms of hydropower and wind power capacity at end-2017. During that year, ...