Brazil
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Key Indicators
| Income Group | Upper-middle income |
| Regional Group | The Americas |
| Population (Total) | 211,049,527 |
| Population as a share world total | 2.75% |
| GDP (current US$, millions) | 1,840,000 |
| GDP as a share of world total | 2.10% |
| GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) | 15,258 |
Performance Overview
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BRA
Country
Brazil
Score
50.58
Rank
59
Technology
38.95
People
52.41
Governance
60.51
Impact
50.45
| 1. Mobile tariffs | 68.61 | 52 |
| 2. Handset prices | 32.70 | 96 |
| 3. Households with internet acccess | 60.65 | 74 |
| 4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population) | 83.05 | 76 |
| 5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of total subscriptions) | 52.04 | 71 |
| 6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user | 64.42 | 82 |
| 7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose | 62.04 | 38 |
| 1. GitHub commits | 9.43 | 48 |
| 2. Wikipedia edits | 43.55 | 66 |
| 3. Internet domain registrations* | - | - |
| 4. Mobile apps development | 70.16 | 49 |
| 1. Availability of latest technologies | 55.65 | 46 |
| 2. Company investment in emerging technology | 38.96 | 66 |
| 3. ICT PCT patent applications per million population | 7.81 | 51 |
| 4. Total computer software spending (% of GDP) | 14.05 | 76 |
| 5. Robot density | 4.01 | 43 |
| 1. Medium and high-tech industry | 45.11 | 39 |
| 2. High-tech exports | 24.54 | 36 |
| 3. PCT patent applications | 0.99 | 52 |
| 4. Labour productivity per employee | 18.39 | 80 |
| 5. Prevalence of gig economy | 31.02 | 93 |
| 1. Happiness | 73.87 | 30 |
| 2. Freedom to make life choices | 77.39 | 61 |
| 3. Income inequality | 23.45 | 116 |
| 4. Healthy life expectancy at birth | 65.74 | 70 |
| 1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being | 83.61 | 25 |
| 2. SDG 4: Quality Education | 21.96 | 70 |
| 3. SDG 5: Gender Equality | 83.72 | 25 |
| 4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | 81.50 | 56 |
| 5. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | 65.38 | 66 |
| 1. Internet users | 66.82 | 68 |
| 2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions | 34.20 | 44 |
| 3. Use of virtual social networks | 65.98 | 37 |
| 5. Tertiary enrolment | 37.21 | 58 |
| 5. Adult literacy rate | 91.31 | 58 |
| 6. ICT skills | 18.95 | 126 |
| 1. Firms with website | 50.38 | 63 |
| 2. Ease of doing business | 51.03 | 104 |
| 3. Professionals | 26.93 | 59 |
| 4. Technicians and associate professionals | 32.77 | 64 |
| 5. Business use of digital tools | 72.82 | 39 |
| 6. R&D expenditure by businesses | n/a | n/a |
| 1. Government online services | 86.67 | 20 |
| 2. Publication and use of open data | 58.86 | 18 |
| 3. Government promotion of investment in emerging technologies | 28.57 | 94 |
| 4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education | n/a | n/a |
| 1. Secure Internet servers | 63.17 | 52 |
| 2. Cybersecurity | 61.65 | 72 |
| 3. Online access to financial account | 19.93 | 79 |
| 4. Internet shopping | 18.19 | 63 |
| 1. Regulatory quality | 44.51 | 93 |
| 2. ICT regulatory environment | 89.77 | 35 |
| 3. Legal framework's adaptability to emerging technologies | 48.36 | 48 |
| 4. E-commerce legislation | 100.00 | 1 |
| 5. Privacy protection by law content | 66.01 | 45 |
| 1. E-Participation | 90.13 | 18 |
| 2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments | 58.01 | 81 |
| 3. Availability of local online content | 67.46 | 50 |
| 4. Gender gap in internet use | 64.50 | 32 |
| 5. Rural gap in use of digital payments | 75.26 | 30 |