THE release of last year's economic figures on March 3rd was cue for much crowing in Brazil. The economy grew by a blistering 7.5%, a rate unmatched since 1986. Since the currency started 2010 ...

The total number of global Facebook users reached around 700 million at the end of May, with the developing countries leading the pack ...

Brazil's official statistics agency describes the country's racial demographics split into groups named as white, black, brown, yellow and Indigenous. Brown refers to biracial and yellow to Asian ...

Brazil's annual population growth slowed over the past decade to its lowest since records began 150 years ago, the government statistics agency said on Wednesday, as people in one of the world's ...

Higher capital costs will keep the brakes on many companies in Brazil. Contrarians see the benchmark Selic interest rate going to 14.5% this year, which is 125 basis points higher than it is now.

SAO PAULO, March 11 (Reuters) - Industrial production in Brazil remained unchanged in January from December, government statistics agency IBGE said on Tuesday, undershooting market forecasts as ...