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Brazil Experiences a Decade of Stagnation


 
23 April 2024
 
Brazil fails to live up to BRIC moniker as an upcoming Emerging Market

Brazil's GDP Growth
Index: 1996=100
Brazil Experiences a Decade of Stagnation
* GDP in Purchasing Power Parity terms with added estimates for the size of the informal economy and adjustments for out-of-date GDP base year data.

Brazil’s economy has marked time in the last decade massively underperforming as an Emerging Market. Once earmarked for its growth potential as a member of the BRIC group (Brazil, Russia, India, China), it has delivered an exceptionally poor cumulative average ten-year annual growth rate of real GDP of only 0.5% compared to 7.5% in India and 7.9% in China.

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