Average GDP growth rate: 8.9 percent. Brazil's economy continued to grow, peaking at an average growth rate of 8.9 percent, but so too did military repression of Brazilian citizens. While progress in the country's industrial sector grew, so too did foreign debt.
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Brazil Economy. Brazil sports the tenth largest economy by nominal GDP in the world, and seventh largest by GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP). The Brazilian economy has a moderately free market but is a predominantly inward-facing economy. Brazil's economy is the largest in Latin America and second largest in the western hemisphere—behind the United States. Brazil was one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world from 2000 to 2012. During this period, it experienced average annual GDP growth of over five percent. In 2012, the Brazilian economy surpassed the United Kingdom's, making Brazil the world's sixth largest economy that year. However, the Brazilian economy decelerated in 2013 and 2014. In 2012, Forbes ranked Brazil as having the fifth largest number of billionaires in the world, ahead of even the United Kingdom and Japan.
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Trade is moderately important to Brazil’s economy; the combined value of exports and imports equals 25 percent of GDP. The average applied tariff rate is 8.3 percent. Nontariff barriers impede trade. Government openness to foreign investment is below average.
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Brazil’s economic freedom score is 51.4, making its economy the 153rd freest in the 2018 Index. Its overall score has decreased by 1.5 points, with a steep drop in fiscal health and declines in labor freedom, business freedom, government spending, and government integrity overwhelming improvements in judicial effectiveness and property rights.
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Last year, Brazil welcomed a record 6.6 million foreign tourists to its various coastal cities which played host to the games. This contributed $6.2 billion to the national economy, an increase of 6.2 percent on the previous year. England, the last country to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, grew by 0.92 percent from 2011 to 2012.
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With Brazil gearing up for new tourism levels ahead of this year's Rio Carnival, CNBC looks back at the country's highs and lows. With Brazil gearing up for new tourism levels ahead of this year's Rio Carnival, CNBC looks back at the country's highs and lows.
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High interest rates - currently 14.25% - have also affected consumer spending, an important element of Brazil's economy, while this year, the government has introduced stringent austerity measures designed to tackle high levels of debt.
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Brazil enters recession, as official figures show the country's economy contracted by 1.9% between April and June, compared with the previous three months. Brazil enters recession, as official figures show the country's economy contracted by 1.9% between April and June, compared with the previous three months.
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Brazil has entered recession after official figures showed the country's economy contracted by 1.9% between April and June compared with the previous three months. Analysts had expected a contraction, but the number was worse than expected. First quarter output was also revised down to show a 0.7%, rather than a 0.2%, contraction.
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Brazil’s economy heats up for Rio Carnival. ‹. Rio Carnival William Volcov | News Free | LatinContent | Getty Images. Brazil is hoping renewed tourist interest will provide a boost to its economy in 2017 as it seeks to capitalise on the legacy of 2016's Olympic and Paralympic Games. The country's ministry of tourism expects the flow of foreign tourists into Brazil to increase by around six percent over the coming year, based on growth registered by previous hosts of the game.
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how is brazil's economy?
Brazil's economy continued to grow, peaking at an average growth rate of 8.9 percent.