Brazil Statistics

According to statistics collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (3), U.S. production of cmde talc in 1995 was 1,050,000 metric tons. Montana, Texas, Vermont, and New York were the principal producing U.S. states. Worldwide production was estimated to be 5,845,000 t. China, having 2,400,000 t, was the largest producer in the world after China and the United States, Finland, India, Brazil, France, Italy, and Canada are the next principal producers. World production of talc in 1994 is Hsted in Table 1. 

Economic Aspects. U.S. production statistics for the period 1980 to 1988 are given ia Table 4 (220). Exports amount to ca 20% of annual United States production, and imports amount to almost 10% of domestic production. The main foreign producers are Japan, South Africa, and Canada. South Korea, Brazil, and The People s RepubHc of China are minor producers. Japan s Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. is the world s third largest producer. Two other Japanese producers are Toyo Soda Co., Ltd., and Nankai Chemical Industry, Ltd. 

Production. Worldwide cocoa bean production has increased significantly over the past 10 years from approximately 1.6 million t in the 1979—1980 crop year to over 2.4 million t in 1990. The production share by country has also changed dramatically in the last 10 years. The big gainers are Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Ivory Coast. The large gains in Malaysia and Indonesia have helped to diversify production and partially shield the market from adverse weather-induced supply shocks. The biggest losers in production share have been Brazil and Ghana. Table 2 Hsts production statistics for these countries. 

Production and consumption statistics for sucrose are shown in Table 1. World production of sucrose during 1993—1994 was 110 million metric tons, of which 64% was derived from sugarcane. The largest producer is the European Union (EU), followed closely by India and Brazil. In 1993-1994, the United States ranked fourth in production. World raw sugar prices from 1990—1995 ranged from 20.20—32. 10/kg (10). 

As of 2008, large reserves of bauxite were found in Australia, China, Brazil, Guinea, Jamaica, Russia, and Venezuela. Bauxite production statistics for the United States were not reported to protect trade secrets. 

Office of Commercial Attach of Brazilian Embassy. Has library and file of special information as well as statistical data on Brazil issues Brazilian Bulletin semimonthly (in English)... 

Table 21.3. Statistical Relationships Between Soybeans, Meal, Oil, and Crush Margin in Brazil (1998-2006)...

This situation can be even more serious if we consider that the city above mentioned is located in a mountainous area distant from the coast. As is the case in several regions throughout Brazil, the inhabitants have no access to any type of seafood, which can explain the occurrence of a significant statistical association between two variables analyzed in the study iodine content ofsalt for human consumption and ioduria (Nimer, 1997). 

The chemo(bio)diversity analysis of maize landraces and propolis produced in southern regions of Brazil was successfully assessed by using a typical metabolomic platform involving spectroscopic techniques (FTIR, iR- and 13C-NMR, and UV-visible) and chemometrics. The huge amount of data afforded by those spectroscopic techniques was analyzed using multivariate statistical methods such as principal component analysis and cluster analysis allowing obtaining extra information on the metabolic profile of the complex matrices in study. 

The main producing region in the world is South America (Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru) (International Tree Nut Council, 2002), The statistical distribution of AFBi and AFT levels (mean, CV and percentiles) for Brazil nuts from producers is given in Table 2, as well as the impact of different MLs for AFT (4, 8, 10, 15 and 20 pg/kg) on this distribution and the corresponding proportion of rejected samples from the world market for each scenario. Data were submitted from Brazil (329) for the 2005-2006 period, where AFL concentrations were reported as below the LOD for 85% of the exported nut lots. 

Table 2. Summary of the impact of different proposed MLs (4,8,10,15 and 20 pg/kg) for AFT on the statistical distribution of AFBi and AFT content (upper-bound scenario) in Brazil nuts for 2005-2006, including the predicted proportion of rejected samples from the world market... 

Santafe HPG Jr, Monteiro SN, Costa LL et al (2009) Weibull distribution as an instrument of statistical analysis for coir fiber tensile tests (in Portuguese). Proceedings of the 64 rd international congress of the Brazilian association for metallurgy and materials. Belo Hor-izonte-MG, Brazil, 13-17 July 2009, pp 1-12... 

The Wall Street Journal reviewed statistics from four countries with large offshore oil industries and modem regulatory systems the United States, Great Britain, Norway, and Australia. (A fifth, Brazil, declined to make its data available.) Each country uses different approaches to measure losses of well control or spills, but they reveal a similar trend. 

The milk producers in Brazil (and the chain as a whole) have received little attention from the responsible agencies for the national statistics. The last national rural census dates back to 1995. According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), the last census showed that Brazil had about 1 million of establishments involved in cattle and milk production. In Sao Paulo there were about 78,000 establishments. 

World production of tree nuts is scattered from the tropics to the Himalaya Mountains and statistics are very scant. Published data refer to nuts for sale and do not include those used in home or in small processing units. Among the nuts that are frequently harvested from native trees and used for specific purposes, but seldom appear in statistics are chinquapins, butternuts, Brazil nuts, heart nuts, hickory nuts, beech nuts, apricot nuts and corozo nuts. 

Nowadays, the main producer countries are reported to be China, Brazil, Philippines, India, South Korea and Thailand, but the available statistics are not reliable. This is because production statistics for ramie are included in the Fibre Crops NES (Not Elsewhere Specified) in the official FAO Production Statistics (FAO 1995). Ramie usage in the US increased in the mid-1980s with the emphasis of fashion on natural fibres. 

In this sense, IBGE (2008)— Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, free translation—, through the National Basic Sanitation Survey (PNSB), also free translation, reported that 99.96% of the Brazilian municipalities have solid waste handling services, but only 50.75% of those dispose of their waste in dumps 22.54% composting of organic waste 11.56% have a unity for separation of recyclables and 0.61% have incinerating treatment units. (IBAM Brazil 2001)... 

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