Brazil, a mixed economy with abundant natural resources is waiting you

Brazil is a country of all the possibilities attracting numerous investors, innovators and workforce from across the world. Brazil is the largest national economy in Latin America.

Its market of + 200 million consumers lures and attracts as its abundant natural resources.

Active in agricultural, mining, manufacturing and service sectors Brazil has a labor force of over a 107 million (ranking 6th worldwide) and unemployment of 6.2% (ranking 64th worldwide). Brazil has been the world's largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years.

Brazil is the third largest exporter of agricultural products in the world. Brazil is billed as the fourth largest car market in the world.

Major export products include aircraft, electrical equipment, automobiles, ethanol, textiles, footwear, iron ore, steel, coffee, orange juice, soybeans and corned beef. 

Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 5.1% of the gross domestic product in 2007. Brazil is one of the largest producers of oranges, coffee, sugar cane, cassava and sisal, soybeans and papayas.

The industry from automobiles, steel and petrochemicals to computers, aircraft and consumer durables is highly concentrated in metropolitan São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Campinas, Porto Alegre, and Belo Horizonte. 

Brazil is the world's tenth largest energy consumer with much of its energy coming from renewable sources, particularly hydroelectricity and ethanol.

Tourism in Brazil is a growing sector and key to the economy of several regions of the country.

Natural areas are its most popular tourism product, a combination of ecotourism with leisure and recreation, mainly sun and beach, and adventure travel, as well as cultural tourism.

Brazil's main competitive advantages are its natural resources, which ranked 1st on this criteria out of all countries considered, and ranked 23rd for its cultural resources, due to its many World Heritage sites.

Brazil's most esteemed technological hubs are the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, the Butantan Institute, the Air Force's Aerospace Technical Center, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation and the INPE.

The country is also a pioneer in the search for oil in deep water, from where extracts 73% of its reserves. Brazil is one of the three countries in Latin America with an operational Synchrotron Laboratory, a research facility on physics, chemistry, material science and life sciences.

According to the Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010 of the World Economic Forum, Brazil is the 61 world's largest developer of information technology.

There are about 2,500 airports in Brazil, including landing fields: the second largest number in the world, after the United States.