9/86Percentage of Brazilians who suffer from malnutrition: 65
5/87Amount that Brazil and Mexico owe foreign creditors: $204,159,200,000
Amount the United States owes: $209,800,000,000
5/88Percentage of Brazilians who favor a return to military government: 38
Chances that an American worker is: 1 in 6
10/90Amount the World Bank will lend Brazil this year to spray the Amazon Basin with DDT to combat malaria: $12,000,000
12/90Amount the U.S. government lent Brazil last year to build a highway through the Amazon rain forest: $20,000,000
5/90Total amount of network TV airtime devoted to the national elections in Chile and Brazil last December, in minutes: 2
6/90Total amount a Brazilian can withdraw from a savings account this year under President Collor’s austerity plan: $1,000
6/90Tons of weapons Fidel Castro brought with him to Brazil’s presidential inauguration ceremonies in March: 10
8/91Year Brazil’s Supreme Court first ruled that it is illegal for a man to kill his adulterous wife to defend his honor: 1991
11/95Estimated percentage change since 1991 in the number of Brazilian workers engaged in forced labor: +400
11/97Amount by which Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo’s 1998 team contract exceeds that of Michael Jordan: $9,000,000
6/98Ratio of the size of New Jersey to the number of square miles of Brazilian rain forest cleared since 1994: 1:3
3/99Average hourly outflow from Brazil ‘s currency reserves on January 13 and 14, after the real was devalued: $214,000,000
2/00Hours during which Rio de Janeiro drivers may legally run red lights in order to avoid being carjacked: 10 P.M.-5 A.M.
5/00Number of acres of Brazil ‘s Panambizinho region that the country’s government promised to return to its Indians in 1995: 3,063
Number of acres returned so far: 0
4/01Number of people protesting genetically engineered crops who occupied a Monsanto farm in Brazil on January 26: 1,300
8/03Number of magicians who won damages from Brazil’s largest TV network in May after their tricks were revealed on the air: 22
9/05Year by which Brazil’s government will have switched its computers entirely to open-source software: 2010
Amount they expect the switch will save each year: $48,000,000
7/06Amount the Brazilian teams have earned from these sales: $918,819,900
9/07Number of Brazilian farms whose pig waste a St. Louis company is using to generate electricity: 40
11/08Minimum number of Brazilians running for political office this year under the name “Obama”: 5