July 5th, 2009 - no responses
Nielsena dn IBGE just updated the number of Internet users throughout the world.
Brazil now has 62,3 million people on the Internet. That is more people using the Internet than in France or the UK.
And we have seen what happens when those 62,3 million Brazilians raise their voice on June 28th.
With 33% of the population online, Brazil still has plenty of growth potential ahead. I’ll give you a stock recommendation in this context next week, after I bought in some extra myself.
Tags: brazilian internet users
July 5th, 2009 - one response
The Brazilian middle class keeps growing
Globo reports on the contuing strong growth of the Brazilian middle class.
In between 2006 and 2007, the Class C population grew very strong (10% growth). In 2008 it remained more or less stable on 45% of the population.
Today the absolute numbers are:
> The richest classes A and B grew from 28,08 million to 29,4 million people in 2008.
> Class C now has 84,6 million people
> The poorest classes D and E went slightly up from 72,9 to 75,8 million people
In 2008, the family income of all Brazilian people went up 11%.
> The people in the richest class A and B saw there income go up with 16,5%; the average income per person of the two classes went up from R$ 2.217 to R$ 2.588.
> The income of the people of class C went up 13%, the average grew from R$ 1.062 to R$ 1.201
> The income of the people of class D and E grew the least (12%) and went up from R$ 580 to R$ 650.
The Economist is digging up again the concept of decoupling and calls it “decoupling 2.0″; read more here.
Tags: brazilian income, brazilian middle class, decoupling 2.0, middle class
July 2nd, 2009 - one response
Contrary to Belgium, Brazil is already covered with high-quality satelite images on Google Maps/Earth. Now Google announced that also Google Streetview is coming to Brazil. You can follow it here on the Fiat Google Streetview partnership site.
Of course the privacy debate also lightened up in Brazil, but Carlos Ximenes of Google Brasil guarantees that the same software will be used as in France, where number plates of cars will be barred. On top of that the Brazilian system will allow users to immediately delete a screen-raster when privacy issues exist.
Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte (the home of Google Brazil) and Rio de Janeiro are the first cities to be covered. Truly hope Florianopolis will also be added to the list.
Tags: Fiat, Google Streetview
June 2nd, 2009 - no responses
Wikipedia published an interesting overview of the per capita use of alcohol in each country. The figures are measured in liters of pure alcohol per year per capita and the data comes from the World Health information.
Belgium ranks high on the list on number 22, with 10,06 liter pure alcohol per person.
Most European countries rank extremely high in the list. Even the United States ranks high on place 43 with 8,51 liters per capita.
Brazil (and most Latin American countries) rank very low on placce 82 with 5,32 liters per capita.
Now you know it for a fact: Belgians are drunkmen drinking twice as much as the average Brazilian.
Tags: Brazilian society
June 1st, 2009 - no responses
End November 2008, Brazil’s president Lula da Silva had an approval rate of 70%. Not many presidents in the world ever had such a rating.
His approval rating fell somewhet in Q1 2009, but bounced back this May to all-time highs as Brazilians grow confident how Brazil is coping with the crisis.
Lula approval rating is now 69%. Reports on this can be read in Reuters and on the Boston Globe.
Also worthwhile reading is this article of last week where the Financial times gives president Zuma of South Africa the following advice:
“Zuma shouldlearn from Lula”.
On December 19th of 2007, 18 months ago, this was exactly the statement that I made when I wrote the following article:
“Zuma: choosing the Lula or Chavez scenario?”
Tags: lula da silva
